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Insta360 Go 2 has been launched in the US, and it is the latest action camera to hit the market. It is a part of the Go series from Insta360, which unlike other camera series from the company does not shoot in 360-degrees. Like the name suggests, the Insta360 Go 2 is the successor to

The Next G Alliance has picked execs from AT&T and Ericsson to be its Chair and Vice Chair, respectively. ‘Setting the stage for the eventual commercialization of 6G, the work of the Next G Alliance will influence and encompass the full lifecycle of research and development, manufacturing, standardization and market readiness,’ says the press release,

Electronics giant Samsung has teamed up with embedded chip specialist to make a new system-on-chip for 5G radios. Aside from the most generic hyperbole it’s hard to see precisely what is so special about this new chip. ‘The SoC is designed to help implement new technologies, which improve cellular radios by increasing their capacity and

DOTA: Dragon’s Blood, true to its name, has a lot of blood. To be fair, it is rated 18+ for violence and language, with a few f-bombs per episode, and the gore doesn’t exceed most modern action anime for adults. There is even a fair amount of sexuality in here, but no nudity. But seeing

UK alternative broadband provider Voneus is finally connecting its first customers to full fibre thanks to financial backing from Australia’s Macquarie Capital, now its majority owner. It is more than 18 months since Voneus, then solely a fixed wireless access (FWA) provider named Macquarie as a new investor. Macquarie said it would invest up to

The new CEO of US chip giant Intel has unveiled his turnaround strategy, which includes the creation of Intel Foundry Services. Pat Gelsinger called his cunning plan IDM 2.0, referring to Intel’s legacy business model as an integrated device manufacturer. In essence this meant it designs and manufactures its own chips, unlike companies like Qualcomm,

Google recently revealed how Google Search has become an important tool for online learning and education. Google is working to make searching for answers for STEM concepts, complex equations, showing 3D graphics for chemistry. The search giant is working on introducing five tools that it thinks will benefit students, parents, and teachers in better utilising

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Mark Pegulu, VP of IoT at Semtech looks at the various wireless technologies that are contributing to the next industrial revolution. No one wireless technology is entirely appropriate for all the applications in the next generation

Internet giant Google has unveiled its latest forays into the telecoms world in the form of its Network Connectivity Center. In his blog announcing the new product, Google’s Product Manager for Cloud Networking, Rohith Ramkumar, describes NCC as ‘a revolution in simplifying on-prem and cloud networking’. It seems to be an attempt to provide a

Apple switched its default camera formats for photos and videos from JPG to HEIC (High-Efficiency Image Format) with iOS 11 to save space on the phone. Now, this might be an old change, but once you share your iPhone photos and videos to your laptop, you’ll realise that it can’t open them because it is

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Matt Warman, Minister for Digital Infrastructure in the UK government, shares his thinking on the use of satellites to help with rural connectivity. The UK’s broadband roll-out is now firmly among the very fastest in Europe –

Japanese operator NTT Docomo is determined not to let rival Rakuten get too much of a head start with OpenRAN, so has drafted in Samsung to help. While this move is of no great immediate consequence, it is symbolically significant in many ways. As we saw today, fellow Japanese MNO Rakuten has not only hit

Walmart Onn branded streaming stick could be in the works as per a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) listing. Onn is Walmart’s brand of personal electronics and accessories. The listing includes pictures of the streaming stick as well as that if its accessories. The Walmart Onn streaming stick appears to have a round design with

UAE operator group Etisalat is the latest telco to use Rakuten’s platform to accelerate its adoption of OpenRAN technology. The Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) is the Japanese MNO’s way of offering some of the cleverness it has put into its greenfield 5G deployment to others. Telefónica was one of the first to get involved with

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Francesca Greane, Marketing Manager, Content & Community for Informa Tech, discusses the evolving 5G ecosystem around the globe. 2020 was destined to be the year of 5G, with both telcos and enterprises alike expecting the journey

Twitter could be working on an “undo tweet” feature specifically for its paid subscribers to let them recall their tweets that have a typo or some other error. The new development could be the company’s response to the much-demanded edit option that it has not provided on the microblogging network so far. It could also

Finnish kit vendor Nokia is holding its Capital Markets Day today, in which it tells investors how it plans to turn things around. As indicated in the announcement of yet another round of job cuts earlier this week, Nokia’s cunning plan is to reduce overheads to free up money for increased R&D spend. This, in

Ofcom will not cap the wholesale prices fibre network operators can charge customer for access to the fastest available services on their networks. The announcement will be music to the ears of those building out fibre networks in the UK, for whom the threat of regulatory intervention on pricing was casting a shadow over their