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What Can We Say About the Potential For Edge Computing?
What, exactly, is the potential for edge computing? It seems to me that we’re seeing more of a need for the “what-is-the-potential” or “what’s-the-justification” sort of pieces every week. Most of that, I think, is generated because there’s an endless appetite for exciting things, and less so for true things. The problem is that excitement…
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Why are Operators Forecasting a Capex Crunch, and What Could be Done?
It’s tempting to attribute the growing interest in capex reduction among network operators to the current economic malaise. The problem is that the push to buy less gear, or at least spend less on it, has been around for well over a decade. The recent interest in capex plans by AT&T and Verizon, then, are…
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Has NaaS Crept in From an Unexpected Direction?
Will this, as an SDxCentral article suggests, be the year of NaaS? I think somebody has suggested that every year for the last five years or so was going to be just that, so it might be interesting to look at why we’ve not achieved NaaS so far, starting with an inability to define what…
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What’s Required for True Autonomy in Vehicles or Robots?
I’ve done a couple of recent blogs on the elements of “contextual” services, and drawn on driving and walking as examples of places where they could be applied. This can, I learned, lead to intermingling the notion of “contextual” with another term, “autonomous”, and I want to clarify the separation. “Autonomous” is a popular term…
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Podcast: Things Past and Things to Come January 9 2023
Our podcasters review the week’s economic and stock news, and talk about some of the fuzzy, uncertain, aspects of tech. Email and RSS:
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Where Do We Get the “Context” in Contextual Services?
Some of the questions and comments I’ve gotten on my blog on contextual services and point-of-activity empowerment ask at least implicitly for an expansion in one key point. I noted the importance of relating “location” of a service user to what is nearby, meaning “contextual location”. I didn’t note how one did that or how…
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Mastodon Chat for the Podcast of January 9 2023
The next Things Past and Things to Come podcast will be posted on the morning of January 9th on the blog.tmtadvisor.com website, and the Mastodon chat on its topics will be held at 11 AM Eastern US Time on January 10th. If you have not yet sent me your Mastodon ID and followed the instructions…
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Is There a Workable Model for Edge Computing, and a Justification?
In our first test of Mastodon chats on podcasts, conducted on January 4th, I think that it would be fair to say that edge computing and its impact on tech spending was the big topic. Within that big tent, there seems to me to be two supports. One is just where “the edge” really should…
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Could the Industrial Metaverse be the Important Metaverse?
Any fortune-teller loves it when their predictions come true, but they also love it when others begin to agree with some of their early-stage prognostications. So it is for me (being an analyst isn’t far from being a fortune teller) with the future of the metaverse. A VC-centric publication has picked up on many of…
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