Posts in Manufacturing
Getting to know Huawei
Last week I was in Shenzhen and Shanghai at the invitation of Huawei. Huawei, like most other large telecom vendors, organises annual meetings for analysts: the aim is to present their strategy to us and get some feedback from the analyst community.
Huawei's success is undeniable. The numbers speak for themselves: they are the #1 in volume in many markets (including FTTH), and their annual profit increased by 30% last year at a time when most vendors are struggling. Their growth is not just in China, of course, but China is an important market for them and so it made sense to go and meet them on their turf to try and get to know them better.
The first thing that struck me is the sheer scale of their organisation. More...
Convergence Conversation, ‘Publishing 2.0’ on 25 March 2010
Date: Thursday 25 March 2010
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Intellect Offices, 10-12 Russell Square, WC1B 5EE
Chair: Ved Sen, founder and CEO, ThinkPlank
The 'Conversation Starters' can be found here
Speakers:
- Simon Bell, British Library
- Jonathan Glasspool, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Adrian Northover-Smith, Sony United
- Tara Kelly, Freelance Journalist, FT Weekend/Time
- Karl Schneider, Reed Business Information
Topic for this Conversation: ‘Publishing 2.0’& More...
Need for speed
There’s little doubt that we increasingly use wireless connectivity to pass media across our PCs, handsets, printers, set-top boxes and cameras. However, as the richness and size of the data we consume increases, the speed of wireless file transfers inevitably decreases. Just as we thought we had cleared our homes of the spaghetti like collection of wires linking devices, the increased file size of the data we look to transfer could soon bring about their return as current wireless solutions struggle under the weight.
A huge welcome then to the ‘Wireless Gigibit Alliance ‘(WiGig). More...
