BOOM! Huge @Microsoft deal at it buys Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion! Microsoft becomes the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. Huge assets in terms of IP for key game franchises. Bold bet by @SatyaNadella and team.
Technology Trends in 2022 - an excellent collection of perspectives by the ABI Research team spanning multiple technologies and industries. I'm not sure I agree with some of them but I found the following particularly interesting:
- 5G will not permeate…https://t.co/uZh5cMTW0m
A huge problem for the telecoms industry is it relies on many outdated or useless metrics, such as "minutes" as a measure for voice comms.
Regulators & govts perpetuate this ludicrous & irrelevant quantum for pricing etc, eg @Ofcom on wholesale voice
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This is inspiring for all of us who may have been a little daunted by the Gladwell 10,000 hours rule... The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU https://t.co/TWwdZ7avn1 via @YouTube
60 satellites and 1,000 Gbps bandwidth deployed by each launch - that's impressive. The potential disruption of the communications world by OneWeb and Starlink is very exciting. #disruption#innovation
Starlink mission will be heaviest @SpaceX payload ever at 18.5 tons. If all goes well, each launch of 60 satellites will generate more power than Space Station & deliver 1 terabit of bandwidth to Earth.