Google

via Flickr © rpongsaj (CC BY 2.0)

Policy & Regulation

Strike One: Google fined €50 million as it falls foul of GDPR

Source: Google Blog spot

Privacy

Is there an end in sight for ‘people-profiling’ online?

The Great Telco Debate

Debate 1: The role of the telco in the broader digital economy

via Verizon

Automotive

The battle for digital assistant supremacy shifts from the home to the car

© Telenor

Mobile

Telenor launches data top-up product with Google for Android users

Device Software & Apps

Amdocs’ Vindicia integrates with Google Pay, allowing online merchants to provide consumers with a seamless and secure payment option

via Flickr © Mike Mozart (CC BY 2.0)

Media & Entertainment

Struggling Oath shows telcos have a mountain to climb when it comes to advertising

Open Source

OpenChain Project gains Facebook, Google and Uber as platinum members

via flickr © Leonardo Rizzi (CC BY-SA 2.0)

China Telecom

The strange case of the misdirected data streams

What have we become? © Flickr/cc-licence/Nicolas Nova

Device Software & Apps

The rise and rise of the Web App: this time?

Source: BT

Cloud

Who will win the network piece between the on-premises data centre and the cloud?

© Flickr/CC-licence/Uncalno Tekno

OTT

OK, you don’t like the way we bundle our free Android services? Fine! We’ll charge

Source: IDC Worldwide Black Book, 3rd Platform Edition, October 2018

IDC

Here are the starting positions for the upcoming China-US technology trade war

Submarine Network

Orange collaborates with Google on a new submarine cable across the Atlantic Ocean

Devices

Google debuts its 'Slate' - a hybrid Chromebook/Detachable/Tablet/Android thingie (with a pen)

Transformation

Infosys partners with Google Cloud to develop data native intelligent enterprise

via Flickr © winecountrymedia (CC BY 2.0)

Network Services

Samsung and Google pledge fealty to GSMA’s Rich Communications Services

Nokia 8110

Devices

Back to the Feature? Get ready for the ‘Digital Detox’ phone

via Flickr © Robert Scoble (CC BY 2.0)

NFV

Kubernetes: the more ‘open’ you make it, the more useful it gets

via Flickr © Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Google

Trump gets up with the birds to tweet threats at Google

5G

Verizon’s 5G residential broadband service will partner with YouTube TV in Houston, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Indianapolis

via Flickr © ccPixs.com (CC BY 2.0)

Business Models

In the Land of the Giants start-ups get rolled over

IoT Devices

Ten things you can do on your Lenovo™ Smart Display with the Google Assistant™ (that you can’t do on a smart speaker)

via Flickr © StockMonkeys.com (CC BY 2.0)

Cloud

Google’s Cloud Services Platform gets a gushing send-off