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…
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…
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…
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…
The metaverse seems to be one of those topics you can’t stop blogging about. There’s a lot going on for sure, the concept is important for sure, and others keep writing about it and raising issues. For example, Light Reading talks about how telcos “marvel at the metaverse”. CNBC says that the metaverse is “off…
With apologies to Arthur Guiterman. “The Elon Musk whose Twitter Flaw launched Mastodon…has rubbed us raw. The metaverse that promised much…has crumbled into cartoon dust. The 5G wave that swept our shores…became the focus of our snores. All tech seems locked in hype and fear…and so we hope for a better year.” Email and RSS:
Starting in 2023 I’ll be adding some capabilities to our TMT Advisor podcast site, including scheduling Mastodon-based interaction on selected podcasts and adding a new podcast type. Please note that you’ll have to be registered to use the Mastodon capability and to listen to the new TechsRayTM podcasts. Those who are registered on January 10th…
We’re almost done with 2022, a year that a lot of people aren’t going to be sad to leave behind. The big question for us all is whether 2023 will be any better, and there are signs that point both upward and downward. The tech world is always a slave to the broad economy, but…
If you’re a fan of the cloud, which probably just about everyone is, then one big question that you’d probably like to have addressed is “Why, given that all the signs are that public cloud spending growth is dropping, did Oracle deliver 43% higher cloud revenue in the last quarter?” There have been a lot…
I’ve blogged a number of times on the importance of metro in edge computing, cloud computing, function hosting, and network evolution. Metro, of course, is primarily a geography, and second a natural place of concentration of traffic. Economically, it’s the best place to site a resource pool for new services and network features, because it’s…