tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96246452024-03-18T04:04:37.387+01:00Mot-bileMore tasteless blog spilling from the maker of <a href="http://e-blogules.blogspot.com">blogules</a>. Here, mobile is the crime.Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.comBlogger498125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-91024317732776420422024-01-12T09:28:00.005+01:002024-01-12T09:45:59.923+01:00 Seoul Smart Life Week - What happens in Vegas stays in Seoul?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">So taking more space at CES was not
enough: Seoul wants to be a match with the World's leading consumer
electronics show and launch 'Seoul Smart Life Week' later this year
(Oct 7-9 in COEX).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mayor
OH Se-hoon announced the event at the 640 sqm Seoul Pavilion in Tech
West Eureka Park, where 81 companies exhibited their solutions and
gizmos (very strong biotech and A.I. verticals behind Seoul Biohub and
Seoul AI Hub). 18 of them claimed a CES Award, but the prize OH and
Seoul Business Agency are after means even bigger bucks.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Well
the first edition 'only' aims at 100 cities and 200,000 visitors, but
it takes time to install a big show in a crowded calendar, and COEX
can't host a Barnum the size of CES. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">KINTEX
would gladly oblige, but Korea's biggest exhibition venue is in Ilsan,
Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, with limited hospitality capacity nearby. Seoul
wants to become a global or at least an Asian leader, to put for good
Tokyo, Hong Kong (and its half-yearly Electronics Fair), or Singapore
(COMEX- ITSHOW-The Tech Show-Consumer Electronics Exhibition) behind. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Seoul
plans to change venues after the Jamsil Sports Complex is fully
transformed into the Jamsil Sports MICE Complex, with a business hub connecting
the COEX, SETEC, Hyundai Motors Global Business Center, Dominique
Perrault's new Yeongdong-daero, and of course the Han River in this very
vegassy vision mentioned in my recent focus (see '<a href="http://seoulvillage.blogspot.com/2023/08/seoul-waterways-and-urbanism-full-story.html">Seoul waterways and urbanism - the full story</a>'):</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsryj1GnCFQzz2_6a3CasDxG8vL17kqDtolW5DSIj8f3F2SR7k2kNbwMR5WOM1gPdnGvPOFdXhRXxgCgbHceq4mtnj8TSodVTVpRm0MqP48qQd0xhvidzxZg_M-6hU6SqGU8a3N340IvyaZU_ZUeJUTYiWgb6l2HPWk4KqbeHPEFRsQAw88fDzvRBNeM/s660/seoulvillageJamsilSportsMICEComplex.png" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="660" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsryj1GnCFQzz2_6a3CasDxG8vL17kqDtolW5DSIj8f3F2SR7k2kNbwMR5WOM1gPdnGvPOFdXhRXxgCgbHceq4mtnj8TSodVTVpRm0MqP48qQd0xhvidzxZg_M-6hU6SqGU8a3N340IvyaZU_ZUeJUTYiWgb6l2HPWk4KqbeHPEFRsQAw88fDzvRBNeM/s320/seoulvillageJamsilSportsMICEComplex.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Seoul already hosts many tech-related events, but no top-of-mind brand emerges. At least, if it may not seem very original, 'smart life' sounds definitely more human-oriented than the old-tech-y 'electronics' or 'IT'.
Unlike CES with the CTA, this new SSLW will not be led by an industry
but by a local authority, with city pavilions rather than national
spaces. To compete with Vegas, Seoul will not only need new hardware and
software, but also the power hitters Korea Inc. sends to the national
pavilion. And ultimately, Samsung LG, and Co. will have to be convinced
to release buzzworthy novelties 3 months earlier than usual.</span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-3019170961110477232023-01-09T10:07:00.005+01:002023-01-09T10:30:28.092+01:00Matter Yoga at CES 2023<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Over the past few years, we've seen screens that could be foldable, rollable, stretchable, pivotable, slidable, wearable, or even laughable. By CES 2024, I bet screens will be chewable and inflatable until that bubble pops*.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's not just us who exercise with the help of our new gizmos, like our smart watches or this laptop-powering exercise bike (Acer's eKinekt BD3)...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47xHiazzetrCuER-guMX3dr3UuesHdVBQyxax3W3u4CQDVX69E_cetFUhwXS-IN786gXThdbkcWvBl9M-Fm-VlXnzGMAg_bldvbRzIwb-cy4UdqT8RXM5C_9D9mHD6JsjklW8XjKbfso6gZppy7Kb3rLo4I6I0lGQVYleCYgU1D49GVWNZa8/s1213/motbile202301cesAcereKinekt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="1213" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47xHiazzetrCuER-guMX3dr3UuesHdVBQyxax3W3u4CQDVX69E_cetFUhwXS-IN786gXThdbkcWvBl9M-Fm-VlXnzGMAg_bldvbRzIwb-cy4UdqT8RXM5C_9D9mHD6JsjklW8XjKbfso6gZppy7Kb3rLo4I6I0lGQVYleCYgU1D49GVWNZa8/s320/motbile202301cesAcereKinekt.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">... Our gizmos themselves are doing some serious stretching now, from the basic figures of Lenovo's aptly named Yoga Book 9i to the epic contorsions of the foldable and slidable Samsung Flex Hybrid (in one or two directions - Flex Slidable Solo or Flex Slidable Duet):</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvHy09tkZsM4DH5hrNMR384QMF3FBvc6St-x98F6_1H4LS4hDV2WF5DlI0hURGHAQepkph-MuRpwCYALhx2wknEivRzKbJfU2ydZjhsenTTtteCAlufa8yUckOgC36jpsBdyMhWFB8UTjkVL4so-fubEbHFNRHpMJH91oDDiztlF8Qexb_dU/s820/motbile202301cessamsungflexhybrid2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="820" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvHy09tkZsM4DH5hrNMR384QMF3FBvc6St-x98F6_1H4LS4hDV2WF5DlI0hURGHAQepkph-MuRpwCYALhx2wknEivRzKbJfU2ydZjhsenTTtteCAlufa8yUckOgC36jpsBdyMhWFB8UTjkVL4so-fubEbHFNRHpMJH91oDDiztlF8Qexb_dU/s320/motbile202301cessamsungflexhybrid2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNjCXCz6urNEAm62kZGcwEVj3A6Qsgp9RMwys_p0bZRjoxiJz_dkEQ8-_5UtccR0N1u7J05S8njC_PKs9lH4pKJSe0nr3yFXanK36SDiM8et4sF730BSvfIJLTDZ1rByA7RwaRAXnnWn2sU1ujm5GlWqsfsieuXt0E7NpTrWF3PZiyQDNkmg/s820/motbile202301cessamsungflexhybrid1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="820" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNjCXCz6urNEAm62kZGcwEVj3A6Qsgp9RMwys_p0bZRjoxiJz_dkEQ8-_5UtccR0N1u7J05S8njC_PKs9lH4pKJSe0nr3yFXanK36SDiM8et4sF730BSvfIJLTDZ1rByA7RwaRAXnnWn2sU1ujm5GlWqsfsieuXt0E7NpTrWF3PZiyQDNkmg/s320/motbile202301cessamsungflexhybrid1.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMGbKJ4_9D9Sa0seDnz71LdWIY2UzEhyYrQHrrGBiTpRUDOCwplWPIoVaZEWxUKJTtzbGR3NvLJXjzqnXpQNALyPd2P8-4U6mC6XyCOdmNWuZu8InmU2oT-yb4IgF0ftR7FiuzNW1VUcOL1YE6SNFnEF3sR2FHBBik8-GN2SqrDCunbOcIfI/s820/motbile202301cessamsungflexslidableduet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="820" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMGbKJ4_9D9Sa0seDnz71LdWIY2UzEhyYrQHrrGBiTpRUDOCwplWPIoVaZEWxUKJTtzbGR3NvLJXjzqnXpQNALyPd2P8-4U6mC6XyCOdmNWuZu8InmU2oT-yb4IgF0ftR7FiuzNW1VUcOL1YE6SNFnEF3sR2FHBBik8-GN2SqrDCunbOcIfI/s320/motbile202301cessamsungflexslidableduet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />No wonder our screens look slender and fitter - not even a bikini string attached for the elegant, </span>97-inch LG Signature OLED M3 (still needs to be plugged to the electricity grid, but Zero Connect otherwise... goodbye meshrooms!):<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwdatbp9UvhcR0kYeDbNgyIRuDOx8J_HLS5EBDfQpS9jS3GSNxQUtCzfFYlVEsq4AoDZ6kbSHY3m-_TpxaXgSYnhrnxI0ECccXbIVGU29d6JEd3x8q8cZtuTJRPuYhavid8e7lJ4Cd1oUeG39woPvEE9PQH0ecpTco3yo_Sh3QQspYGqjE3ZQ/s600/motbile202301cesLGsignatureOLED.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwdatbp9UvhcR0kYeDbNgyIRuDOx8J_HLS5EBDfQpS9jS3GSNxQUtCzfFYlVEsq4AoDZ6kbSHY3m-_TpxaXgSYnhrnxI0ECccXbIVGU29d6JEd3x8q8cZtuTJRPuYhavid8e7lJ4Cd1oUeG39woPvEE9PQH0ecpTco3yo_Sh3QQspYGqjE3ZQ/s320/motbile202301cesLGsignatureOLED.gif" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, as our mobile and home hubs get smarter, new devices keep popping up to feed them and our screens with even more vital data. CES 2023 even proposed to health monitoring nerds a weird game of thrones between Aetrex Albert 3DFit (get your health scanned by stepping into some kind of toilet bowl) and Whithings U-Scan (get your urine scanned as it flows)**:<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-atybd-sMIJVDB49GA8rN5B6HIkRBs2mSbknXjali39H8ktMIcN9Ebe_0UA_i-xJVi1oPyAdPtezEd23lFo5Gcd1uJgwsNyMJdubQzTh3HV85p3rPbdzruKOgCiPZfj-NQLG_jA8H2G40L-O9YGwvA1REmUGQWtkwouTlb7itfO4q5HwjPw/s315/motbile2023cesalbert3dfitfootscanner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="315" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-atybd-sMIJVDB49GA8rN5B6HIkRBs2mSbknXjali39H8ktMIcN9Ebe_0UA_i-xJVi1oPyAdPtezEd23lFo5Gcd1uJgwsNyMJdubQzTh3HV85p3rPbdzruKOgCiPZfj-NQLG_jA8H2G40L-O9YGwvA1REmUGQWtkwouTlb7itfO4q5HwjPw/s1600/motbile2023cesalbert3dfitfootscanner.jpg" width="315" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPQtQNODr8iM6EmcB4llmT5zb86-D3NBAr9xK5bTvNCo7VlPxkiC6saxfEAhR4DLglPPCI7tB47jiSzTJTFckg83kRCeBy0BJ4JKuXG4qpieQMg2pMNWsIn3i58-eoCdXtzM4dT1YGDWbYoCdypSvA6koJfnfknuPWR6yt9gVg86OHGTA7a1I/s1537/motbile202301cesWhithingsUscan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1537" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPQtQNODr8iM6EmcB4llmT5zb86-D3NBAr9xK5bTvNCo7VlPxkiC6saxfEAhR4DLglPPCI7tB47jiSzTJTFckg83kRCeBy0BJ4JKuXG4qpieQMg2pMNWsIn3i58-eoCdXtzM4dT1YGDWbYoCdypSvA6koJfnfknuPWR6yt9gVg86OHGTA7a1I/s320/motbile202301cesWhithingsUscan.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">How to keep this ever expanding and ever more complex ecosystem as simple and sustainable as possible? Even the most pervasive manufacturers gave up their dreams of growing their own proprietary Internet of Things a long time ago, and to cover all bases, they all need a minimum of stability and interoperability. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOjwFsFGqHCQ3a585Oe3dDzGYHPeM29j9O1HgY4-c1uhaYS55MbSMaSRkji1SVCNmxZHdkGQzrX7pd0T_sNAC1J_aLw38Uy6HSPQxbedg0ImVRleo3JOyopwR3JUMW-jZZY8wcANp1ktU6CNP5D2zaSyg_LFqByzxeg4I1ahd153LJJF5QKc/s1920/motbile202201cesMatter.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="1920" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOjwFsFGqHCQ3a585Oe3dDzGYHPeM29j9O1HgY4-c1uhaYS55MbSMaSRkji1SVCNmxZHdkGQzrX7pd0T_sNAC1J_aLw38Uy6HSPQxbedg0ImVRleo3JOyopwR3JUMW-jZZY8wcANp1ktU6CNP5D2zaSyg_LFqByzxeg4I1ahd153LJJF5QKc/s320/motbile202201cesMatter.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For that (not necessarily fecal) matter, the industry's new standard changed its name from a very 1990s 'Connected Home over IP' to a more Millenials-friendly 'Matter' behind which all the big guys join forces, starting with Apple (HomeKit), Google (Weave), and Samsung (SmartThings). Since no significant anti-Matter emerged at CES,if an explosion shall occur, it should be a positive one (except of course regarding our most intimate data).<br /></span></p><p>
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-66852386949480271112022-12-01T08:09:00.004+01:002022-12-01T08:27:00.980+01:00Metaverse Ethics (To Be Or Not To Meta-Be)<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Last Monday, Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT updated the 'Expanded Virtual World Ethics Principles' it released last Summer. Now </span><span style="font-family: arial;">3 core values and 8 principles are listed </span><span style="font-family: arial;">under a more buzzword-friendly title 'Metaverse Ethical Principles'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As far as core values go, '<b>safe experience</b>' and '<b>sustainable prosperity</b>' were much more predictable than a '<i><b>sincere identity</b></i>' you usually don't associate with virtual, avatar-filled meta-worlds. But remember that this is Korea, a netizen nation were you're never totally anonymous, and where most of your online experiences require a digital ID or a digital signature (often through public-private partnerships involving such platforms as Kakao or Naver) that keeps getting smarter and smarter, and wrapping around you with tighter and tighter technologies (biometrics and blockchain on the government's menu).<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Likewise, if 7 of the 8 principles follow a classic playbook...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">- 4 usual suspects: '<b>respect for privacy</b>', '<b>protection of personal data</b>', '<b>autonomy</b>' (as in lack of coercion), '<b>reciprocity</b>' / mutual respect<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">- 3 feel-good mantras: '<b>fairness</b>' / equal access, '<b>inclusiveness</b>', '<b>responsibility for the future</b>' / sustainability</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">... one oddball looks disconnected from the metaverse's inherent... disconnection: '<b>authenticity</b>' means that your virtual self should behave like your actual self, since the former will impact the latter.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Forget about role playing: that's you up there. The real you, even with those fangs and wings, this embarrassing cosplay, or this spectacular virtual gender correction. After all, this is Korea, where you can't escape plastic surgery, and where you can change your name on a whim. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The metaverse is not an out of body experience: the economics of attention go 3D, and it's not only your clicks of browsing patterns that will be captured, but also the very way you move and breathe. The more you submerge yourself into it, the better you'll be decyphered, the faster your intentions and your decisions will be detected and shaped for you. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The guidelines for users are one thing, and service providers have their own duties in that list, but it's mostly about not overdoing it, a very vague self moderation. And of course nothing about interoperability or portability, each one can lay its traps without many consequences. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In short, the government tells users 'be responsible', but falls short of telling service providers a decent 'don't be evil'.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This is 2022, and the 2020 metaverse bubble has already kind of deflated, a bit like in the crypto / blockchain world, where the collapse of Do Kwon's Terraform predated that of FTX. Yet both remain strategic axes of competitiveness for Korea, so this wasn't the moment to clip the wings of players who were actually involved in these guidelines.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ready, Player Won...<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxJUfUpmFoDqJC1KLaHygIXED4WpErmwSQU8Yfqm8_6xscK8mizi65kY6rIy_Wm3QDW3xuFy8omxJU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-3232184715845673052022-01-12T03:09:00.002+01:002022-01-12T03:09:44.427+01:00CES 2022, with real humans inside<p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Fourty thousands of visitors, only 30% of which from abroad, that's a far cry from the heyday, but a quantum leap from last year's virtual event. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyway, you can always show off without showing up - CES 2022 simply shifted buzzwords from WFH to metaverse, and amped up everything VRtual.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If NVIDIA's Omniverse predated Facebook's Meta*, special mention to Hyundai for their branding extravaganza: Metamobility, MoT (New Mobility of Things), MobED (Mobile Excentric Droid), PnD (Plug n Drive), DnL (Drive n Lift).... Of course Boston Dynamics' tireless robots are in the loop (always willing to play with BTS members or to showcase innovation campaigns), but there's also the possibility for robots to somehow become our IRL avatars or surrogates. A bit more ambitious than just using e Ink to turn your car into a chameleon (a fun BMW concept car paint, though).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiILcY-pHoVIngGIuOmwaL-BBHkz_JPV8eIs-6A2IAxb9os0jWJiAZAnAJETYwJVRvoqPcXahJsiKZtJhZGR6Zwd3jHg8ANMmyUJxyVcbvHOouIog-2gL8wxzRYwhGrXZ2tLwu4iJAOSwPRPBcHoPJdkSt278PKIk2fuy5M39bt-lkXCNwRu7I=s1095" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="1095" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiILcY-pHoVIngGIuOmwaL-BBHkz_JPV8eIs-6A2IAxb9os0jWJiAZAnAJETYwJVRvoqPcXahJsiKZtJhZGR6Zwd3jHg8ANMmyUJxyVcbvHOouIog-2gL8wxzRYwhGrXZ2tLwu4iJAOSwPRPBcHoPJdkSt278PKIk2fuy5M39bt-lkXCNwRu7I=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEj9qFa19d3Vzv1Of825zFwVHqG-cID1kNBpZjp9SoNuz1FMZRh-yeKcFk6pLRgMBrw8rXcr4JGMoExXUQGObWtxDW_DkaGmuCu7SQH7a1z3LpA8hxgvoO-p5MvMFm-9LV7UxzAb4IdYFYp5xklLe-P0Iun6RDMkaifAXNseWrZa8BC1I0cTo=s1195" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="888" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5dVnTgiWilBiThjrHzgaOcviFtnSER1Z-hKrrzriC7o_KzFDmrv8Q2hgjY_0pkSuL3REnWApV_8vTc-Z4nyqUUWIWlNi6p5LweHT75mEmgyTCJoAv-4QcZezKd69bjYk6NGOvBfSWnHPSfCGo-CK-Oiu9-I61Z0Le_qzEldmq3Cjf_TTKGrk=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As usual, you can find all kinds of gizmos at CES. I have yet to wrap my head around this one, though. What went wrong at Colgate, and moreover among CTA curators? Who wasted their 20% allocated to pet projects on this slam dung?<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieNg7uTVh7txGIvz-1Ws39cvHDHiRgHbGhITP81jmJ2NRLMDNQPOENw7aCHzGTUgaNeEkoYOPdS9_zRq546QROcS0Fihf_rDy3UjNlTFnzN6pRsihUcDPodys9ieX4-IiHmKq1nSChmNlFsfjVw77NN6Zy0KTvOu1Tow_7OWAYIOUAoFA4SGc=s445" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="445" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieNg7uTVh7txGIvz-1Ws39cvHDHiRgHbGhITP81jmJ2NRLMDNQPOENw7aCHzGTUgaNeEkoYOPdS9_zRq546QROcS0Fihf_rDy3UjNlTFnzN6pRsihUcDPodys9ieX4-IiHmKq1nSChmNlFsfjVw77NN6Zy0KTvOu1Tow_7OWAYIOUAoFA4SGc=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But when it comes to relieving an itch and solving pain points, mosqitter deserves more buzz. Maybe that's because this ugly Dalek is into removing buzzing beasts: it lures all female mosquitoes within a 50 m radius indoor or outdoor. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsXHD1lASBsTXJaNmCOb-3bEnpofySBU44phTlYFgdmg7Ak17-Q9LpeHRYqXEayTXeZey8Iz1AuUVADdF2AAHwiC8EBH_8r7sNZ89QDdrK1f9vSkHf-748Q-cX8tBuPY3MkQIpcQ7W6gteGyu8fhGtDaGVBt-TtEpGfls7PHxJSNP9SVVgR0c=s1006" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1006" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsXHD1lASBsTXJaNmCOb-3bEnpofySBU44phTlYFgdmg7Ak17-Q9LpeHRYqXEayTXeZey8Iz1AuUVADdF2AAHwiC8EBH_8r7sNZ89QDdrK1f9vSkHf-748Q-cX8tBuPY3MkQIpcQ7W6gteGyu8fhGtDaGVBt-TtEpGfls7PHxJSNP9SVVgR0c=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Maybe that was the whole plan from the start: drawing from a close range annoying innovation suckers to Vegas in order to prevent them from reproducing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-81612381367214162762021-11-01T02:47:00.005+01:002021-11-01T02:51:32.123+01:00Meta-Fiction or Meta-Stasi?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">You all remember that scary picture of Mark Zuckerberg walking in a room full of unsuspecting Oculus slaves, five years ago.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5gJKk6Sn-baE1fgHn3DoOQP-9i1cz-4XIcWdNbhfv772jVTi3S99a1AOUGp8w7aokryPCMVGghU0r_JkMQj09u85lGiGa5sCe1ADa-YKYB18YKMZoh32lghPL0dMLIVYb3U2Mw/s1195/motbile202110zuckoculus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="1195" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5gJKk6Sn-baE1fgHn3DoOQP-9i1cz-4XIcWdNbhfv772jVTi3S99a1AOUGp8w7aokryPCMVGghU0r_JkMQj09u85lGiGa5sCe1ADa-YKYB18YKMZoh32lghPL0dMLIVYb3U2Mw/s320/motbile202110zuckoculus.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Yes, yes, there's also that eerie mugshot we used two years later in our fictional "<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2018/11/interview-with-data-vampire.html">Interview with the data vampire</a>".</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When Zuck presented the new brand covering all the group's activities, it really felt like everybody was invited to submerge themselves again into a rosy virtual future, and forget all about an inconvenient present: the Facebook Papers and whistleblower Frances Haugen's confirmations that the platform contributes to human trafficking, Trump's insurrection, antivaxxer movements etc*...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrLMyvdh5xvjPQJuIgtFDA9Vw1lTgtkX8542AEceOnAAAF9pU_7V80SKbfoF4Q48_ZV5OOyyqj3YsCVgSmBr6c8oqwDCIFRTjXbW0CROBHllYZBT9uK9xTL01X0RT1sjqV1Wt8g/s1920/motbile202110facebookmeta.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrLMyvdh5xvjPQJuIgtFDA9Vw1lTgtkX8542AEceOnAAAF9pU_7V80SKbfoF4Q48_ZV5OOyyqj3YsCVgSmBr6c8oqwDCIFRTjXbW0CROBHllYZBT9uK9xTL01X0RT1sjqV1Wt8g/s320/motbile202110facebookmeta.gif" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">'Meta' is so Facebook. That's not Google's Alphabet, the alpha and the omega, controlling the keys and tools at the source of sharing knowledge. It's all about encompassing everything, absorbing as much as possible under a gigantic, pervasive umbrella. The ultimate, self-contemplative tech blob. An infinite loop no one can escape. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If 'Meta' opens all possibilities, the MVRS ticker 'reduces' it to the 'metaverse' flavor of the month. See? We've got the label, we made that paradigm shift, Facebook joined the dotcom club of the twenties! </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The self-proclaimed 'Social technology company' will not de-merge its activities but regroup all 'Family Apps' (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger...) on one side and 'Reality Labs' (Oculus AR, Spark AR, Novi ewallet, Portal and Co.) on the other. As if to signify that somehow, these household names are not about reality, maybe closer to fiction. The toolbox and the black box.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMse0lHmMxq4x9OfCtGCJC8tysiNRmPEaxgvmGI4nbyHtt0oMB6yMmgg-Zm2aPPS-Q62jcCfEQN4CjU8sId_FDiixw58A-KVU6x_NRolHp3RL00YN60DQwnHXgvbaZzRzxxMaFEA/s1639/motbile202110metabuild.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="1639" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMse0lHmMxq4x9OfCtGCJC8tysiNRmPEaxgvmGI4nbyHtt0oMB6yMmgg-Zm2aPPS-Q62jcCfEQN4CjU8sId_FDiixw58A-KVU6x_NRolHp3RL00YN60DQwnHXgvbaZzRzxxMaFEA/s320/motbile202110metabuild.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Facebook could be such a wonderful platform if it were run properly and responsibly. Business as usual is not an option now, and certainly not when on metaverse steroids. The name change almost makes things worse, and people are expecting more than Andrew Bosworth (a.k.a. Boz the robot) and Nick Clegg (a.k.a. Scatterlings of Meta) claiming that Meta is 'building the metaverse responsibly'. Unless Facebook truly changes, it's bound to land somewhere between meta-fiction and meta-stasi.<br /></span>
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-40597723794682033282021-04-17T15:07:00.005+02:002021-04-17T15:12:38.140+02:00DMU (a.k.a. The Shadow) v. Super-GAFA<p><span style="font-family: arial;">March 11, 2020 - The UK Government takes a first measure to curb the progression of a devastating global, viral phenomenon across the nation by announcing a new Digital Markets Taskforce (and that coronavirus thing, which claimed its first British life the previous week? well... let's just wait and see, keep partying, and zoom towards herd immunity).<br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglKXxigY13qoNinuxGrjG2keWHXbyMmtsAkCuMaet5QTZsYNYO4fZPpw1oMC7Bv6pqC4hH8y8ezXFtENXikBFf2joMgC6SxKC2PshjuKnVpKaZarNVua7w3SXUTv__XuAgfSgKQQ/s552/motbileTheShadow.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="379" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglKXxigY13qoNinuxGrjG2keWHXbyMmtsAkCuMaet5QTZsYNYO4fZPpw1oMC7Bv6pqC4hH8y8ezXFtENXikBFf2joMgC6SxKC2PshjuKnVpKaZarNVua7w3SXUTv__XuAgfSgKQQ/w138-h200/motbileTheShadow.png" width="138" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">April 7, 2021 - The Digital Markets Unit is officially launched within the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Announced last November, the DMU is pitched as a tough superhero powerful enough to tame such supervillains as Google, Facebook, or Amazon, the 'SMS' level baddies (that's Strategic Market Status). <br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For the moment our superhero regulator is a 'shadow' without a proper license, and without any legal weapons, that will only become operational next year. Because we're talking about a launch "<i>in 'shadow' non statutory form ahead of legislation granting its full powers. (...) The government will consult on the design of the new pro-competition
regime this year and legislate to put the DMU on a statutory footing as
soon as Parliamentary time allows</i>."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Which leaves lobbyists plenty of time to show their muscle - picture Clark David Kent Cameron entering a BT phone booth to change into Supermean (BTW the Ofcom will be a key partner for The Shadow).<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We've already seen plenty of action earlier - remember Facebook's memorable move, and Australia lawmakers pledging to defend the orphan and widow news companies? Frankly, I can't wait for the Netflix version of the novels published by the Taskforce ahead of Christmas: GAFA's answers to their Call For Information. My favorite remains Amazon's - the way they dismiss the need to even define their kind, the way they use the words 'care' and 'harm' when one of the key regulatory fights will be over the expected 'Duty of Care' for harmful contents... they've got great screenwriters for this Digital Markets Universe!</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQDud_rtzCPCFKxVMsHdm7apnaqzGJoxed1oi0dFZjDbE0y1UV5bhSS35IzdpX47BmImZQSA9eRnWuFzXGM8RJzVO2MbnI7R17cLWRD7pkyDD-R2GN7qJlYokgwLQgEk4RcEPuA/s982/motbile20210407dmucma.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="982" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQDud_rtzCPCFKxVMsHdm7apnaqzGJoxed1oi0dFZjDbE0y1UV5bhSS35IzdpX47BmImZQSA9eRnWuFzXGM8RJzVO2MbnI7R17cLWRD7pkyDD-R2GN7qJlYokgwLQgEk4RcEPuA/s320/motbile20210407dmucma.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>'A tough new regulator' - at least according to the Government's <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-watchdog-to-boost-online-competition-launches--3" target="_blank">press release</a> (20210407)</i><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZ0rVH9DCZ5DxHiYnx7EkIsK6xzlXMklZclXuprTsQRr0N_p1l8QspFB9-HZNFcfVNnHF0j3XT10jU8viaKfBT0BpiM-RVsjGRet1QKjcHH9DsjO1cuxhAYNZZ1cTt5b37-rhyphenhyphenQ/s913/motbile20210407dmucma2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="913" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZ0rVH9DCZ5DxHiYnx7EkIsK6xzlXMklZclXuprTsQRr0N_p1l8QspFB9-HZNFcfVNnHF0j3XT10jU8viaKfBT0BpiM-RVsjGRet1QKjcHH9DsjO1cuxhAYNZZ1cTt5b37-rhyphenhyphenQ/s320/motbile20210407dmucma2.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-20149560065370268892021-01-20T13:21:00.001+01:002022-01-11T09:00:53.648+01:00LG Rollable @ CES 2021 <p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">ICYMI at CES, LG announced a commercial launch of its rollable screen phone in 2021. Fascinating to see a smartphone seamlessly morph into a phablet as its screen stretches from 6.8 to 7.4 inches: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwWyIm4fX9MQ986h-04HfiFy7gLkIofVuCEyKxBLmop6dpFMktQ-TSzZXTbEmGK8zWrBxvyKnheZxQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Note that according to Nikkei Asia*, LG teamed up with its Chinese coopetitor BOE, who showcased this 12.3 inch prototype 2 years ago (a thick papyrus scroll with a gimbap roll sidekick to hang on your wall):<br /></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VsxpUZaggcw?controls=0" width="400"></iframe></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Smart way of making handset news without making new handsets. <br /><br />Frankly, I was impressed but not really
convinced by LG's rollable TV. A rollable phone seems to have a greater
potential. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I always wanted to be able to carry a tablet in my breast
pocket, and this solution looks more elegant than developing a king size barrel chest. </span>Provided it comes with a stylus and the screen doesn't feel
as uneven as a foldable, I might even consider switching from my dear
Galaxy Note. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While we humans keep evolving at a very slow pace in uncertain directions, our personal devices are becoming shapeshifters. Some day they will wrap around our necks like scarves. And strangle us when we don't behave well enough for Big Brother.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">mot-bile</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> 2021</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">* </span><span style="font-size: small;">"<a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/CES-2021/LG-to-release-world-s-first-rollable-smartphone-developed-with-BOE"><span class="ezstring-field">LG to release world's first rollable smartphone, developed with BOE</span></a>" (</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Nikkei Asia 20210112</span>)</span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br /><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-54776204822580940322020-12-10T03:31:00.004+01:002020-12-10T05:44:54.863+01:00Europe's Semiconductor Relief Fund<p><span style="font-family: arial;">European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton announced a joint declaration from 17 EU members on "A European Initiative on Processors and semiconductor technologies 'to strengthen Europe’s capabilities to design and eventually fabricate the next generation of trusted, low-power processors'. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Why now? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In spite of the pandemic, the global market is expected to grow by 5.1% in 2020 (+8.4% next year*), but thanks to Asia Pacific and the Americas, who are clearly driving it. NXP (Netherlands-USA) and Infineon (Germany) are no match for the big guns from the States or South Korea, and Europe's biggest player, STMicroelectronics, doesn't even belong to the EU (Switzerland). 6G looms on the horizon, and China is all the more ambitious that solutions are urgently needed for Huawei and ZTE, even after Trump leaves the White House. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Semiconductor supply is critical for global competitivity, and the joint declaration stresses some of its strengths and weaknesses: <br /></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>"Today Europe has notable strengths in specific areas of the semiconductor industry, such as power electronics, RF technologies, smart sensors for embedded AI, microcontrollers, low-power technologies, secure components and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. European chipmakers enjoy a strong global presence in vertical markets such as embedded systems for automotive and industrial manufacturing. Europe also has a strong technological position in mobile networks including current 5G and emerging 6G technologies. However, Europe’s share of the 440 B€ global semiconductor market is around 10%, well below its economic standing. Europe is increasingly dependent on chips produced in other regions of the world - notably those used for electronic communications, data-processing and compute tasks, including processors." </i><br /></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So it looks more than a defensive move than clear and immediate danger for Samsung and Co. The memo clearly identifies an opportunity: 'some of the $145bn 20% of the European Recovery and Resilience plans should go to digital transition; this is up to 145B€ over the next 2 to 3 years.'</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The local ecosystem obviously lobbied efficiently to get 17 members on board at a significant moment. And they found a powerful voice in Thierry Breton, a former Mr Turnaround for Bull, France Telecom, Thomson, and Atos, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Will it be enough? It certainly won't hurt.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-44450822119152842022020-06-30T10:30:00.000+02:002020-07-01T07:34:55.314+02:00Bullywood v. TikTok?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this time, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/India">India</a> decided to ban <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/TikTok">TikTok</a> permanently*, depriving the <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/China">Chinese</a> platform of 17% of the world population, and of a nation that will never reach herd immunity when it comes to dance and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/music" target="_blank">music</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">India will survive: it's much easier to replace an app with tens of existing rivals than, say, to dump <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Huawei">Huawei</a> for another <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/5G">5G</a> provider. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TikTok will survive, but that sets a disturbing precedent. Somehow, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/ByteDance">ByteDance</a> has been exposed to this kind of risks ever since they swallowed Musical.ly two years ago, and many consider TikTok as a Trojan Horse for Beijing more subtle than <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/WeChat" target="_blank">WeChat</a>. So when it spread even faster than coronavirus*, calls to flatten the curve multiplied. And when <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Zhang%20Yiming">Zhang Yiming</a> hired former <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Disney">Disney</a> streaming boss <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Kevin%20Mayer">Kevin Mayer</a> to lead TikTok and to become ByteDance's COO, some saw it as - beyond the obvious reach for proven talent - a telltale sign that some sort of sheep's clothing was required to better face upcoming legal battles over US national security. Obviously, proposing distinct platforms for the Chinese market (Douyin) and overseas isn't enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weeks and months to come will test many nations, players, and sectors as TikTok extends across new territories and verticals (<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/health" target="_blank">health</a>, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/education" target="_blank">education</a>...). ByteDance could prolong its success with other assets such as <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Xigua%20Video">Xigua Video</a>, an even more direct competitor to <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/YouTube">YouTube</a>: with its limit of 60' loops, TikTok itself can't go further than 2 hand washings, and you can imitate Twitter and double your core limit once, but your concept has to keep some consistency. Of course, along the way, ByteDance will further perfect its already impressive <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a> know-how (something among others that Vine didn't have).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can TikTok's momentum be broken by this single setback? No. But if the US or the EU start weighing in, things could change. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thing is sure: India is changing. And even before this episode, Narendra Modi was benchmarking China for online censorship***. This is not just about banning 59 apps from a coopetitor nation, but in the process, about rounding up all players in a most pervasive, theoretically open ecosystem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* along with 58 other apps, starting with <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/WeChat" target="_blank">WeChat</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** mentioning killer apps during a lockdown sounds obscene because it is, but TikTok and Zoom purely seized the moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*** see for instance "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/technology/india-internet-censorship.html" target="_blank">India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship</a>" (NYT 20190214)</span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-88545884202286558042020-04-06T09:07:00.001+02:002020-04-06T13:20:30.564+02:00Coronavirus and the end of herd impunity<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Location based tracking apps, electronic ankles, drones... all technologies are being used to enforce lockdowns, quarantines and curfews, to search and destroy any will to ruin the common effort to flatten those damn curves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the herd level, our usage patterns brought precious insights about how both viruses (COVID-19 and STUPID-20) spread, most notably people flocking away from big cities to speed up curves across rural areas (Orange found that 17% of Parisians left the capital in the final hours before lockdown), or spring breakers sharing the fun during their spring breakout back home (see Tectonic's viral tweet below*):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When it comes to tracking individuals, Korea set the new standards very early with these alerts blaring on your phone each time a new case of COVID-19 pops up near you. You can't see the full individual's name but you know their age, their address, their nationality, and their exact path over the previous days. When on quarantine, you're tracked by GPS (three Vietnamese students were caught cheating in a Gunsan
park - the truant officer found out that they left their phones home), you have to send every day your self-diagnosis on two different apps (one for the Ministry of Health, another for the Ministry of Interior), and you have to share your morning and afternoon temperatures by SMS - mercifully it's not intrusive to the point they send a drone to do it themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And most of us are okay with the new safety-privacy trade-offs, because nowadays security means actual survival. Same thing with visual contacts. As we're deprived of basic liberties during confinement, we're willing to open our doors far wider than we would normally to co-workers, distant contacts or even total strangers. Somehow, as we grow our personal spheres, we're enabling more people to extend their reaches within them, break into our homes, Zoom into our interiors. Somehow, this virus has become the mother of all Troyan horses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when this pandemic is over, we probably won't return to normal. We won't mind when our operators charge us $5 a month for SD cards (as in Social Distancing), we won't flinch when they send electric shocks each time we come within 6 feet of other passers-by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As long as they let us graze on the greener side of the electric fence.</span><br />
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we analyzed secondary locations of anonymized mobile devices that were
active at a single Ft. Lauderdale beach during spring break. This is
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">— Tectonix GEO (@TectonixGEO) <a href="https://twitter.com/TectonixGEO/status/1242628347034767361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2020</a></span></blockquote>
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-43372175519033130532019-07-08T03:43:00.001+02:002019-07-08T08:36:58.550+02:00Japan v. Japan - Artificial Belligerence v. Artificial Intelligence<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a Trumpian move, Shinzo ABE started a trade war with <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Korea" target="_blank">Korea</a>, so far not reciprocated, except by South Korean netizens threatening to boycott Japanese products. Japan is not raising tariffs for Korean imports, but making Japanese exports to Korea more difficult for key tech components, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">particularly essential to <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/chips">chipmakers</a> and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/screens">display</a> manufacturers</span>*. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pressed by national media to explain such a masochistic move, the PM ended up saying that there was a risk these valuable technologies could end up in North Korea. Of course that's a ludicrous statement, since such trade between both Koreas would not only contravene international sanctions, but also defy logic considering the North's situation and priorities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The actual motive was officially to punish Seoul for insisting on reparations for Imperial Japan abuses, particularly regarding sexual slavery and forced labor**, abuses denied by ABE, his government, and the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi he was instrumental in founding during the nineties. This lobby that has all but taken control of Japan politics, while keeping the population in the dark regarding its highly controversial agenda (restoring State Shinto, the Imperial rule, denouncing peace treaties and human right laws, denying war crimes, rejecting postwar's peaceful constitution, returning to militarism, rewriting history textbooks...).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, MOON hosts <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/LG" target="_blank">LG</a>'s KOO Kwang-mo, Hyundai's CHUNG Eui-sun, and
SK's CHEY Tae-won, to prepare a response that likely will pass by the
WTO. Samsung's LEE Jae-yong and Lotte's SHIN Dong-bin couldn't attend since they are in Japan. A few days earlier, LEE invited his friend Masayoshi SON (<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Softbank" target="_blank">Softbank</a>) to meet President MOON Jae-in and major chaebol leaders. Even before ABE's bomb hit the ground, Samsung was expecting to lose half its profits in the second half of the year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Korea Inc. and Japan Inc. united swiftly for good reasons. Playing a <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Huawei" target="_blank">Huawei</a>-style blame card against South Korea could backfire for Japan, and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/China" target="_blank">China</a> could actually become the biggest winner. Giant tech companies on both sides of the... East Sea agree on one thing: this is the worst moment to fuel divisions between them. Regardless on how the trade war between China and the US ends, the fact is Korea and Japan are lagging behind in key technologies, particularly <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a>, where scale matters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So why would ABE take such risks? Is he still blinded by his obsession with revisionism, worried he could lose support from his base ahead of elections? Nationalism could be a welcome diversion when Japan pensioners panic about their financial future, but is it the right time to expose Nippon Kaigi's agenda, and what they are desperately trying to hide from the public?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* fluorinated polyimides and resists (Japan produces 90% of the World's total), and hydrogen fluoride etching gas (70%). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">** South Korea's Supreme Court recently ruled that Japanese companies should compensate survivors.</span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-14832378252746805552019-04-22T08:36:00.000+02:002019-04-22T09:41:26.591+02:005G Korea, Huawei inside<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Pulse and other media*, Huawei will open next month its first 5G Open Lab in the world in Seoul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, earlier this month, Korea became the first country in the world to launch 5G commercially (even if for enterprise customers only at the beginning). Korea Inc precipitated the launch just to achieve that premiere, SK Telecom, KT, and LG U+ literally beating Verizon on the eleventh hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If local MNOs don't communicate much on their 5G network suppliers, Huawei already holds significant positions in Korea, as a recent Asan Institute focus** noticed:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- LG U+'s 4G network in Seoul, Northern Gyeonggi-do, Incheon, and Gangwon-do, in other words its most strategic areas (capital region, and all borders with North Korea)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- parts of Naver's new Internet Data Center</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- KT's network upgrade for NonHyeop Bank, a big 4 player</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Korea Inc does communicate on a key 5G supplier, Samsung, who clearly won the first round at the smartphone level with its Galaxy S10 5G.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another of their groundbreaking handsets, the Galaxy Fold, received mixed reviews from the few journalists who were granted one ahead of the official launch, but the manufacturer did warn them that they shouldn't have pulled out the plastic protection away from the delicate screen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interesting to see what happens when the veil is lifted about Huawei's presence in the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* "<a href="https://pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2019&no=249143" target="_blank">Huawei to open its world’s first 5G open lab in Seoul in May</a>" (Pulse 20190422)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** "<a href="http://en.asaninst.org/contents/opportunities-and-challenges-for-south-korea-in-the-new-era-of-5g/" target="_blank">Opportunities and Challenges for South Korea in the New Era of 5G</a>" (J. James KIM, HONG Sanghwa - Asan Institute 20190321)</span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-84347372783220057302019-03-26T04:36:00.001+01:002019-03-26T05:47:31.139+01:00Triple Play, Triple Aggregation<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/SK%20Telecom" target="_blank">SK Telecom</a> confirmed April 5 as the date of its <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/5G" target="_blank">5G</a> launch - as soon as <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Samsung" target="_blank">Samsung</a> <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Galaxy" target="_blank">Galaxy</a> S10 5G <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/handsets" target="_blank">handsets</a> are delivered (monthly plans expected around KRW55,000 / $49 per month). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As expected, promoting a 'Social <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/VR" target="_blank">VR</a>' experience well ahead of 5G ("<span class="item-title"><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2018/10/ready-player-oksusu-social-vr.html" target="_self">Ready Player oksusu Social VR?</a></span>") turned out to be a smart move to detect the levels of bandwidth required for an optimal user experience (e.g. <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/4G" target="_blank">4G</a> <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/LTE" target="_blank">LTE</a> too slow for rapid eye / head movements): <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Korea" target="_blank">Korea</a>'s leading MNO intends to leverage 5G compression technologies to speed up VR sessions by 30%, and to combine 5G with 4G and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Wi-Fi" target="_blank">wifi</a> where available to allow the download of a 2 Gb movie in only 4 seconds, dubbing the concept 'Triple Aggregation'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While operators work hard to make the most of their costly pipes, other players parade with seemingly effortless solutions, but will <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Google" target="_blank">Google</a> <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Stadia" target="_blank">Stadia</a> fulfill its category killer potential? Announced at the <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/games" target="_blank">Game</a> Developers Conference by <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Sundar%20Pichai" target="_blank">Sundar Pichai</a> himself, the <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/cloud%20computing" target="_blank">cloud</a>-based platform and its Stadia Controler would love to piggyback the kind of boosters SKT has in store, but regardless, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a> and Google Home integration will definitely help. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Apple" target="_blank">Apple</a> had to react, but could only display an Apple Arcade that smells like 1980s spirit. Yeah! exclusive games! only on <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/iOS" target="_blank">iOS</a>, Mac, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Apple%20TV" target="_blank">Apple TV</a>! to download from your Apple Store! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if that's in a different field, Apple TV+ is also about defending the Apple creative ecosystem. Maybe they will eventually <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Netflix" target="_blank">netflix</a>ize their game the Alphabet way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, Cupertino pulled a much more interesting card with their Apple Card, which should quickly allow them to show us some money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* see "<a href="http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3061013" target="_blank">SKT says 5G network is tested, ready to go</a>"</span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-46208304219189960792019-01-09T05:28:00.001+01:002019-01-09T09:07:42.943+01:00CES 2019 Who'll Pay For The Wall? And Y-brush?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At last, The Wall is up, but a bit too far from the border with Mexico: <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Samsung">Samsung</a> is exhibiting in Vegas the most titanic version of its monster, a whopping 219-inch, 4K microLED <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/TV">TV</a>. At that level, you should measure your <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/screens">screens</a> in feet (18), or yards (6), or simply dump these obsolete standards altogether (5.5 m). This wall will cost you much less than $5.6bn, and will much more easily fit your living room once it's curved. Like <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/LG">LG</a>'s rollable screen, which <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2018/01/ces-2019-driverlessly-nuts.html">returned</a> to <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/CES">CES</a> but this time for sale, under the group's premium brand for home appliances, as LG Signature OLED TV R.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the weird vehicles section, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/BMW">BMW</a> proposes a <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/driverless">driverless</a> motorbike, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Hyundai">Hyundai</a> a walking car (Elevate), and Bell a flying car (Nexus Air Taxi) so huge, that it takes as much space as 4 cars, and probably burns more fuel than 10 - prepare to be <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Uber">Uber</a>-charged for a ride on that one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Otherwise, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/IBM">IBM</a> is back to mainframe computers: it takes a 2.7 m x 2.7 m frame to host its IBM Q System One <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/quantum">quantum</a> computer. It only takes two of these to climb The Wall, if not to reduce it to quantum bits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the French decided not to punch below the belt, like last year (see "<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2018/01/ces-2019-driverlessly-nuts.html">CES 2019 - Driverlessly nuts</a>"), but straight at the jaw: Lyon-based <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/FasTeesh">FasTeesh</a> claims its Y-brush can clean your teeth in 10 seconds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You just have to keep a low profile for two times 5 seconds, as you chew on the thing:.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That said, this concept is also smartly proposed in a BtoB version targeting medical or retirement institutions. That's a real game changer for caretakers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What else? Ah, yes, after all, there seem to be still some latency with 5G. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark Zuckerberg: 'Actually, I thought that was yet another subpoena, but now that I'm here, I might as well answer'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mb: 'Well so far, you didn't provide many answers to European or American judges and committees. Apologies, yes, solutions, not really. Seriously, after all the scandals and bad press surrounding you and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Facebook" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, do you still believe you can become President some day?'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MZ: 'Facebook helped a very despicable man get the job once, why not twice? I'm only 34, and by Clinton standards, probably 'likable enough'. Plus, if I'm using Definers Public Affairs to get at George Soros' throat, I don't need Cambridge Analytica to get into your head. By the way, you're a very troubled person.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mb: 'Takes one to know one, thank you. You're not as publicly weird as say <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Elon%20Musk" target="_blank">Elon Musk</a>, but there's at least some cold aspergersian nerdness in you. And obviously, you don't seem to mind playing, like <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Bill%20Gates" target="_blank">Bill Gates</a> in the 80s, the role of the supreme techno-villain with pervasive reach.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MZ: 'I learned everything from him, including the pseudo philanthropic narrative involving our best halves. While the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helps Monsanto infiltrate Africa, our Chan Zuckerberg Initiative basically serves as a vehicle to remote control Facebook, and the human population that comes with it, while <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Sheryl%20Sandberg">Sheryl Sandberg</a> takes most bullets.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mb: 'So you control Facebook, even when you say it's impossible to control it.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MZ: 'We're working on it, and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a> helps a lot. All humans have to do is to give up all control, so that we can ultimately get the most holistic systems to monitor them.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mb: 'The thing is you're also giving up all moral standards. I mean, how far lower can it go now, after your latest underage bride auction?' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MZ: 'Never underestimate human lowness. You don't want to know what happens every day on Facebook.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mb: 'But you do. And even when you don't, you monetize it. I wonder which ads ran for the bidders during that sick auction.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MZ: 'There are bad guys out there, but we're not totally evil. If <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/China">China</a> blocks us, that's because we herald Western freedom.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mb: 'If China blocks you, that's because they envy your alienating system, and want to develop their own blend of behavioral control.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MZ: 'China's Social Credit system will never be as popular as Facebook. They can become even more pervasive and amoral than us if they want, it's fundamentally bad for business to let your users know how much it costs them actually.'</span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-86757745345480044152018-10-25T04:36:00.001+02:002018-10-29T02:57:05.029+01:00Ready Player oksusu Social VR?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Introduced at the 2018 <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Mobile%20World%20Congress" target="_blank">Mobile World Congress</a>, and launched two weeks ago, oksusu Social VR provides, as the name suggests, social interactions in <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual" target="_blank">virtual</a> environments by leveraging <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/SK%20Telecom" target="_blank">SK Telecom</a>'s 10M-subscriber-strong OTT platform oksusu. The service works with <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Samsung" target="_blank">Samsung</a> Gear VR and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Google" target="_blank">Google</a> Daydream headsets, and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/video" target="_blank">video</a> quality is equivalent to 80-inch full <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/HD" target="_blank">HD</a>, with potential upgrades to 8K (7,680 x 4,320) and 360-degree IMAX <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/screens" target="_blank">screens</a> on <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/5G" target="_blank">5G</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, Social VR has a role to play to promote 5G, which <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/SK%20Telecom" target="_blank">SKT</a> is expected to launch this December. From day one, the experience ticks all the boxes to fill bigger pipes: higher definition, enhanced interactivity for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">key verticals (<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/music" target="_blank">music</a>, movies, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/sports" target="_blank">sports</a>, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/games" target="_blank">games</a>...)</span>, new mass <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/entertainment" target="_blank">entertainment</a>, (social) network effect,...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What's interesting is the angle SKT used to market the new service in their PR release "<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="가상현실에서 영화관 데이트 현실로
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Second Life', meet Spielberg's 'Ready Player One'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Granted, there are technical constraints, you'll have to wait for that sensitive suit, and for the moment, 'interactions' are basically what audiences are allowed to do IRL: discuss with their neighbors, change seats, throw popcorn at the screen. And to avoid inaudibility, only up to eight people can chat together while watching the same video contents in one of the 5 kinds of virtual spaces already available: <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="가상 공간의 종류는 거실 ∙ 영화관 ∙ 공연장 ∙ 스포츠룸 ∙ e스포츠룸 총 5가지이다.">living room, movie theater, performance hall, sports venue, and e-sports room. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="가상 공간의 종류는 거실 ∙ 영화관 ∙ 공연장 ∙ 스포츠룸 ∙ e스포츠룸 총 5가지이다.">So couch potato goes VR, but that's the only the beginning. You can already watch NBA games on VR, and judging how GAFA joined the sports rights battle, more platforms will emerge. Including for amateur virtual space designers - think <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/MySpace" target="_blank">MySpace</a> in the age of <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/google" target="_blank">Google</a> Sketchup and Google Tilt. I'm pretty sure <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Korea" target="_blank">Korea</a> will soon have its fair share of the VR addicts I envisioned in my 1980s short story 'Lautriv'.</span></span></span><br />
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couple of years ago, I was dragged to a hologram K-pop musical in
Seoul, and most fans came in pairs or small groups of friends, enjoying
the show almost as if it were the same thing. But you wouldn't have
Beatlemania-level screams, which I think may happen in a soundproof
environment many are used to: the noraebang or karaoke room they
book for a couple of hours to let it go full throttle. I bet many of
these facilities will add the VR experience, to spice up the karaoke (on stage with
your idol), or simply for sessions of oksusu Social VR (or their
likes) between friends. PC-bang may evolve differently, with smaller cells, and a focus on VR games and e-sports.</span></span></span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-42697367113198796542018-06-20T03:56:00.002+02:002018-06-20T08:39:42.366+02:00IoT as in the 'Internet of Turds'?<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529459693180_6922" style="margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/LG">LG</a> U+ got, as expected, the smaller chunk of <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/5G">5G</a> <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/spectrum">spectrum</a> in this week's auctions, they sure made a splash with their connected bidet-toilets. </span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529459693180_6922" style="margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's start with these 5G auctions, where <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Korea">Korea</a> raised 3.6183 trillion won from the 3 bidders, not even 10% more than the starting point of KRW 3.3 tn; just enough to show an illusion of fight. All 3 MNOs claimed 800MHz in the 2.8GHz spectrum, and in the 3.5GHz spectrum, #3 LG U+ got 80MHz compared to 100 for #1 <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/SK%20Telecom">SK Telecom</a> and #2 <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Korea%20Telecom">Korea Telecom</a>. </span></pre>
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<pre id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1529459693180_6922" style="margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now about that bidet-toilet thing. </span></pre>
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-11328066327045498672018-05-11T04:10:00.001+02:002018-06-20T08:33:56.118+02:00Once GPON a time in the East<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/SK%20Telecom">SK Telecom</a> announced their 2.5 Gbps service over <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/GPON">GPON</a> (<span class="st">Gigabit-capable Passive Optical <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/networks">Network</a>), </span><span class="st">5 Gbps and 10 Gbps packages by EOY 2018.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't worry about filling the pipes in a country that demands everyday faster services. <span class="st" data-hveid="63" data-ved="0ahUKEwijg-i49fzaAhUEGpQKHWm9Ac8Q4EUIPzAB">The traditional mecca of extreme online <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/games">gaming</a> (MMORPG and esports) is getting addicted to <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/blockchain">blockchain</a> and bandwidth-hungry services (<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/MelOn">MelOn</a> HD, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Amazon">Amazon</a> Prime...).</span> If <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/IPTV">IPTV</a> remains less popular than in France, subscriber bases keep catching up. SKT's broadband and mobile units now claim respectively 4.46M and 8.88M 'Monthly Active Users' (a 25.5% gain YOY for the latter, branded Oksusu).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SKT maintains its leadership over KT for another demanding service, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a> assistants**: NUGU reached 3M users Q1 2018 (+9.6% YOY - 5M expected EOY), GiGa Genie 'only' 710k. And they are bound to leverage this key entry point in Korean households after the acquisitions of quantum sensing leader ID Quantique ('quantum-safe cryptography' from Switzerland), and the nation's second security service provider ADT Caps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, SKT and KT are compelled to boost new streams of revenues: both posted small decreases in revenues following the switch to new accounting norms, and the sword of Damocles that has been threatening to strike them for 7 years might just do that: the Supreme Court confirmed that MNOs can't postpone anymore the slashing of their outrageously expensive plans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* see "<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2017/11/south-cow-rea-already-cow-nected-to-5g.html">South Cow-rea already cow-nected to 5G</a>". Note that 77.9% of KT subscribers are already on <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/LTE">LTE</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">** according to them, people using simultaneously smartphones, fixed internet, and A.I. assistants at home will still enjoy more than 800 Mbps over GPON.</span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-6587948334623215842018-03-03T10:02:00.000+01:002018-03-03T10:53:24.882+01:00Moonshots and Wineyardshots - MWC meets Salon de l'Agriculture<div dir="ltr">
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As announced, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/LG">LG</a> abandoned the arms race to focus on software upgrades instead of new hardware. Now you can record their ultra-slomo evolution with your <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Samsung">Samsung</a> <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Galaxy">Galaxy</a> S9 (+).</div>
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While <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Sony">Sony</a> joins the headjack-free craze (Sony Xperia XZ2), <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Nokia">Nokia</a> slides back to Matrix, reviving its iconic banana (8110 via HMD Global). </div>
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And by the time Nok-Nok rolls-out a ultra-light <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/4G">4G</a> <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/networks">network</a> across the Moon with <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Google">Google</a> and <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Vodafone">Vodafone</a>, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/5G">5G</a> will be all the rage at home. </div>
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Anyway, why wait for Audi Quattro rovers to crisscross Earth's spinoff? <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/VitiRover">VitiRover</a> smart lawnmowers already roam French wineyards. This Saint-Emilion-based startup provides autonomous, solar-powered, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a>-loaded marvels that clean the place without breaking a sweat. Bonus: they can survive - and even reduce - DNA-altering levels of pesticides. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/LG">LG</a>'s 65-inch roll-up <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/OLED">OLED</a> <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/TV">TV</a>... totally nuts:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And how about <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/ForwardX">ForwardX</a>'s CX-1, a driverless luggage that follows you wherever you go? Now if that one doesn't drive airport security people nuts... imagine the mayhem when hundreds of these suitcases roam their halls, and no one can tell who's 'carrying' what...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can't get nutsier, you think? Consider this: <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Spartan%20Underwear">Spartan underwear</a>, radiation-blocking boxers from France, to 'protect your nuts' from harmful waves... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what to expect for next year? The <b>Crotch It</b>, an ankle monitor that punishes convicted sex offenders as soon as they get within range of former victims? A <b>Wonder e-Bra</b>, to fend off potential Harvey Weinsteins, and keep them away from the Internet of Tits? The <b>Locker Room Banner</b>, a semi-<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a>-based app to automatically delete your account each time you post something offensive on social media*?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We'll see. So far, if CES 2018 didn't bring any of the 3 gizmos I expected last year (see</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2017/01/ces-2018-tighten-your-25-ppm-helmets.html">CES 2018: tighten your 2.5 ppm helmets</a></span>"), we've already been graced with a lighter version of one of them: smart masks from <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/R-PUR">R-PUR</a> ('pure air' in French - yes, we frogs are not just into smarty pants) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* by the way, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Samsung">Samsung</a> built The Wall. A 146-inch modular TV. With Micro LED. Now who will pay for it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, LiveCare was only a niche app illustrating the way the MNO intends to leverage its core techno and infra (network, A.I., cloud, data) to boost new business (e.g. IoT, commerce, media). <span class="Standfirst"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A couple of days ago, <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/BT">BT</a> CEO <span class="Standfirst"><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Gavin%20Patterson">Gavin Patterson</a> called </span><span class="Standfirst">all players to '<i>build a strong business case for <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/5G">5G</a></i>', </span><span class="Standfirst">and </span><span class="Standfirst">measuring bovine farts doesn't exactly sound like the next killer app... unless </span>you replace cows with humans, and alerts with <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a>-picked
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="st">SK Telecom is already '<i>building a strong case for 5G</i>', particularly with its rival KT about to showcase its own flavor during the </span><span class="st">Pyeongchang 2018 olympics. And SKT are not just into testing earlier than others (e.g. recently </span><span class="st">4G LTE-5G internetworking, or VR 360 over 5G with <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Samsung">Samsung</a> tablet-size device), or even into going commercial earlier than others, but also into building a stronger 5G </span><span class="st"><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/standards">standard</a> (</span><span class="st">e.g. recently pushed for 200 Gbps packet swiching), and a stronger technological environment around 5G (e.g. recently </span><span class="st">4.8 Gbps <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Wi-Fi">WiFi</a> with 802.11ax in Bundang, or 5G-PON / Passive Optical Network distribution). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'<i>Building a strong <b>business</b> case for 5G</i>' will be more fun for marketers. Even if it <span class="st"></span>starts, as usual, like with 3G or <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/4G">4G</a>, with existing services that will saturate the previous generation anyway, like <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/HD">HD</a> <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/video">video</a> these days, a booming category if we ever saw one. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">'<i>Building a strong <b>business</b> case for 5G</i>' will also demand a touch of emotion, so I'll finish this focus on SK with their latest ad for 5G. It features an endangered species, Jeju-do's haenyeo (female diver):</span><br />
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-737751837161497492017-09-29T18:22:00.001+02:002017-09-29T18:24:05.832+02:00Click and mortar v. Click and mortar<p dir="ltr">Where you live, where you work, and where things happen are not necessarily the same places. Yet, even as technology abolishes distances, major trends tend to emerge from creative ecosystems that are not too stretched.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The model becomes more challenging where real estate and technology bubbles coexist. Will San Francisco ever recover its soul? How long will Berlin or Montreal remain affordable? Artists can hop from Brooklyn to Queens or New Jersey, but can they still feel the vibes when they return to Manhattan? </p>
<p dir="ltr">All majors are building artificial ecosystems around new headquarters, following more or less open patterns (See "<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2015/02/googles-gtown-wins-over-zeetown-and.html">Google's Gtown wins over ZeeTown and the Large Apple Collider</a>" after "<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2015/02/zee-talk-of-zee-town.html">Zee Talk of Zee Town</a>"). </p>
<p dir="ltr">Somehow, these utopian projects celebrate <u>u</u>rban failures, a mutual transplant rejection. </p>
<p dir="ltr">If startup ecosystems often play crucial roles in urban regeneration, it's more complex for big players to play god beyond a simple hotspot, such as a Google Campus for instance. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Xavier Niel's Station F is truly monumental, but neither open, nor really connected to its direct neighborhood - how many smaller fishes will fray near this titanic aquarium? how far can it stretch and transform eastern Paris?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Talking about massive concrete platforms... I'm also curious to see how my beloved <a href="http://seoulvillage.blogspot.com/search/label/Seun%20Sangga">Seun Sangga</a> will evolve. The city of Seoul wants to turn this whale of a building into a startup hub, leveraging its unique DNA. But can you force it down its throat? Can the fragile ecosystem survive storytelling, even well intended? </p>
<p dir="ltr">One thing seems clear: if good and sound urbanism can foster and nurture innovation, you shouldn't overplan, and you should make space not just for the insiders and outsiders, but also for the fifty shades inbetween. </p>
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Copyright <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com">mot-bile</a></div>Stephane MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814448452457333863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9624645.post-80901922097974129322017-03-03T15:20:00.002+01:002017-03-03T16:13:30.441+01:00Comfort zones<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whiffs of déjà vu from Barcelona's Mobile World Congress: a Nokia 3310, a BlackBerry keyboard (KeyOne), and soon a Motorola DynaTAC Vintage Edition?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After sending millions on Pokemon Go quests, Nintendo Switch-es back to hardware.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google plays its classic from-service-to-device branding gimmick, positioning Google Home + Google Assistant against Amazon Echo + Amazon Alexa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Home had to extend its footprint before Samsung Assistant hits the shelves, and will reach beyond Android to tickle Apple Siri. Rumor (and Android Police) has it Google will be the first multi-user device on the market.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At this stage, it doesn't matter much if the platform remains Google-centric, with at least 9 in-house brands among the fist 30 partners:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nevermind this gizmo: the A.I. behemoth is less venturing into new territories than trying to defend its comfort zone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* "<a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/2016/10/pitching-google-pixel-in-3-strikes.html">Pitching Google Pixel in 3 strikes</a>"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Hushme mask (<a href="http://gethushme.com/" target="_blank">gethushme.com</a>) allows you to mask your voice using various sounds (Minions, R2D2, rain, wind...).</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Plume Labs Flow (<a href="http://plumelabs.com/" target="_blank">plumelabs.com</a>)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And you wonder what <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/CES" target="_blank">CES</a> 2018 will bring you next year. Here's an exclusive preview of the 3 gadgets that will define the event:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Xiaomi" target="_blank">Xiaomi</a> 2.5PPM Helmet:</b> after purchasing Plume Labs and Hushme, the Chinese manufacturer created an air filtering mask with an airbag that inflates around your head as soon as nanoparticle levels hit the roof. In this safe bubble, the air is pure, your eyes don't hurt, and no one can hear you scream. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphago">Alphago</a> D-Bunk:</b> this cloud-based <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a> service boosts your messaging and SNS apps, and sorts fake news from verified stories. Or at least it used to until Russia hacked it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Samsung" target="_blank">Samsung</a> Gear Fit Cuffs:</b> clip the smartwatch on your left wrist, the other end of the handcuff on your right wrist. It beeps and flashes LED rainbows as soon as <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/Lee%20Jae-yong">LEE Jae-yong</a> moves 200 ft away from his cell.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, the more people play, the smarter the <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/A.I.">A.I.</a>, and the stronger Big G. A bit like they use Captcha to decypher ancient texts scanned by Google Books, only with countless more applications. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Help Google crowd-accelerate singularity and build A.I. dystopia by playing with its QuickDraw (<a href="http://twitter.com/stephanemot/status/799484363305992192" target="_blank">twitter.com/stephanemot/status/799484363305992192</a>)</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Similar games can be imagined in 3D, VR environments (not just for Big G's Tilt Brush), your every stroke or move tracked by eyefluence, and so many completely different kind of games...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, playing kid stuff in a sandbox can help grow <a href="http://mot-bile.blogspot.com/search/label/singularity">singularity</a> monsters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yesterday, a philosopher friend wondered if A.I. could create philosophical concepts, but Jorge-Luis Borges already answered the question decades ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Simply by mapping and applying patterns from different panes, you can easily come up with strikingly beautiful concepts and conjectures that could keep experts awake for eternities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you run out of A.I. systems or monkeys, even elephants will do:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just don't forget to invite once in a while a Magritte to your Quick, Draw! games, or a Woody Allen to your Quick, Think! sessions.</span><br />
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