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TRPC Director on SCMP, “UK approval of Huawei equipment could sway more European states against US, analysts say”
“The Western security agencies seem to be dancing to slightly different tunes. While they all recognise a potential security risk,...
TRPC Director on SCMP, “US indictments against Huawei a step towards splitting the world’s telecoms industry in two”
“Now we are living in a world of cyber insecurity and every leading telecoms equipment vendor and carrier as well...
Just a Last Thought
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (The more things change, the more they stay the same) All good...
Measuring the Digital Economy
When the UK still had an automobile industry, there was a standard joke about the manufacture of the Morris Mini...
Media Maketh Man?
What do Martin Luther, the sixteenth century monk who fermented the Reformation across Europe in the sixteenth century, Emmanuel Macron,...
Time to Retreat?
Is nothing safe! From next month, Singapore’s civil servants will be disconnected from the Internet.[1] And then connected again using...
A New Mercantilism?
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping seem to have something in common, despite the showman image of the former and the...
Bring Back the Robots
“iPhone manufacturer Foxconn plans to replace almost every human worker with robots: China’s iPhone factories are being automated.” So read...
A Connected Christmas?
Just this week I came across this fascinating pre-Christmas post on Yougotobejoking.com. “Get connected this Christmas. That’s the message coming...
Unthoughtful Emotions
The Financial Times, 5th November 2016, led its Life & Arts supplement with an interview with an American fascist of...
Going Up in Smoke
Smartphones are exploding into flames. This guy was fortunate. It burnt a hole in his pocket and the phone dropped...
Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicle are driverless vehicles, vehicles that are basically robots. Singapore has stolen a lead by introducing the first test...
Fishing or Phishing
Fishing or Phishing ‘We are living in interesting times’: so goes the cryptic Chinese observation, which is really a warning...
Brexit or Fixet
Brexit or Fixet “In a nutshell, the referendum is a watershed in two related trends: the rising clout of anti-establishment...
Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything?
Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything? Think of a Narcissus these days and the name Donald Trump is never far away. In...
Sex and the City and the Internet of Things
Sex sells. That is pretty well established and widely known. Sex sells for money and it sells products. The former...
If it’s broke, don’t fix it?
The Bangladesh Bank heist in March 2016 netted USD81 million when fake transfer requests were wired to the Federal Reserve...
TRPC Director on FT, 1 Mar 2016: “Why can’t the ‘expert hackers’ write the code?”
Sir, If Apple can write code to bypass an iPhone password, but then fears that expert hackers will steal it,...
Upsetting the Applecart
Donald Trump called for a boycott, although only after he had “just thought of it.”[1] Bill Gates, initially at least,...
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Marvin Minsky died in January 2016. He was the outstanding forerunner of research and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in...
Opportunities and Challenges for Startups in India
TRPC participated in the second edition of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) Startup Summit in Jaipur, on...