Here is my list of electronics industry trends and predictions for 2016: There was a huge set of mega mergers in electronics industry announced in 2015. In 2016 we will see less mergers and how well the existing mergers went. Not all of the major acquisitions will succeed. Probably the the biggest challenge in these →
It seems that PC market seems to be stabilizing in 2016. I expect that the PC market to shrinks slightly. While mobile devices have been named as culprits for the fall of PC shipments, IDC said that other factors may be in play. It is still pretty hard to make any decent profits with building →
In the end of 2015 there were 3.2 billion people online. 67% of Americans now have broadband at home, compared to 70% in 2013, and 13% connect via smartphone only vs 8% in 2013; smartphone penetration in US at 68%. The share of Americans with broadband at home has plateaued, and more rely only on →
It seems that Satya Nadella’s Microsoft is a very different animal than earlier Microsoft, unafraid to use any technology if it gets the job done: Article Microsoft has developed its own Linux. Repeat. Microsoft has developed its own Linux reports that Microsoft has developed its own Linux distribution to do Azure networking. Official Microsoft web →
There has been long time discussion on if RISC or CISC processor architecture is more efficient. CISC (Complex instruction set computing) was the most popular architecture before RISC became popular. According to Wikipedia before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so-called semantic gap, i.e. to design instruction sets that →
In the begining of this year I wrote posting Telecom trends for 2014 that includes my expectations for this year. As year 2014 ends quite soon, it is a good idea to look back how well those estimations went. I use italics for material from the original Telecom trends for 2014 posting. Mobile infrastructure must catch →
There has been some silent times on serious big vulnerabilities (I don’t contain the usual Java, Flash and Windows things that come and go al the time). Not it seems that another branded open source security bomb has droppied: ‘Venom’ Security Vulnerability Threatens Most Datacenters. So this new vulnerability has a brand name VENOM (Virtualized →
In few years there’ll be close to 4bn smartphones on earth. Ericsson’s annual mobility report forecasts increasing mobile subscriptions and connections through 2020.(9.5B Smartphone Subs by 2020 and eight-fold traffic increase). Ericsson’s annual mobility report expects that by 2020 90% of the world’s population over six years old will have a phone. It really talks about the →
Here are comes my long list of computer technology trends for 2015: Digitalisation is coming to change all business sectors and through our daily work even more than before. Digitalisation also changes the IT sector: Traditional software package are moving rapidly into the cloud. Need to own or rent own IT infrastructure is dramatically reduced. →
Here is my Internet of Thing communications model: This model tries to cover at least the most IoT situations. The idea in this model is to describe the IoT communications at suitably accurate level to cover normal situations. A real-life implementation can have all those part or it can have more than one step →