Richard Windsor
Dr Richard Windsor is the founder of Radio Free Mobile which is an independent research provider. The research helps clients to understand and evaluate the players in the digital ecosystem and presents a unique perspective on how all the pieces fit together in an easy to read and digest way. The product is available on a subscription basis and counts members of the handset, telecom carrier, Internet, semiconductor and financial industries as its subscribers. RFM is the land of the one man band meaning that Dr. W. also makes the tea.
I think Google will end up paying less than $1bn. Google and Oracle are at it again with Oracle asking for up to $9bn of damages as a result of Google’s alleged copyright infringement of the Java programming language. Normally this would be quite straight forward but where it gets complicated is that Java is […]
I see a shake out with only a handful surviving. Just as in 2011 when every man and his dog was building an app store, now everyone is trying to build an autonomous vehicle. Just as it was with app stores and every other technology craze before it, only a very few are likely to succeed. Google, […]
Google is trying hard to fix the endemic security issues that continue to plague Android devices but unfortunately it is making almost no progress. Since August 2015, Google has been releasing monthly security updates to address the security flaws but there are two big problems. First.Any security patches that Google makes to Android only apply […]
A stick in the eye for corporate governance. A great set of results was marred by the timely announcement of a share split that further strengthens the founders’ grip on the company to the detriment of all other owners. Q1 16A revenues / adj-EPS were $5.4bn / $0.77 compared to consensus at $5.3bn / $0.62. Although […]
Signs of progress at last. Amazon is finally showing some early signs that it is beginning to understand the value that creating an ecosystem could bring to its bottom line. Amazon’s has made some changes to its Amazon Prime as well as to its Twitch website which point to expanding coverage of Digital Life as […]
Where the connection crusade goes, the cash machine will follow. Facebook made it very clear at its developer conference that it will stop at nothing to ensure that everyone is able to share anything with anyone. The net result of more connections, more sharing and more time spent with Facebook, will be a substantial increase in the […]
It looks like Alphabet has put its robotics venture, Boston Dynamics, up for sale because there is no immediate path to earning a return on the money invested for Alphabet. Boston Dynamics is a robotics company that specialises in robots that are autonomous as far as navigating and adjusting to their immediate environment. This means […]
Microsoft has announced that Xbox Live members will now be able to play games with members from other gaming networks such as the PC as well as other consoles. This has been coming for some time as Windows 10 devices all share elements of commonality that makes enabling this feature much more straight forward. Consequently […]
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