AT and T True Experience
AT and T True Experience sprang out of the the mid-1990s. At that time AT&T was thinking about how they could own the customer as the internet superhighway became a reality.
David Hoffman
David Hoffman worked on promotional videos for AT&T at the time including a video showing a service based on General Magic internet appliances for business, personal use and telecommuting.
AT and T True Experience outlined in this video looked to be:
- Customers relationship with the nascent web would be mediated through AT&T
- AT&T also wanted to build an e-commerce shopping mall similar to what AOL later set up
AT and T True Experience went on to join similar services like Apple’s eWorld, CompuServe and AOL in irelevance as the first generation walled gardens fell away.
Business
Marvell Industry Analyst Day – by Doug O’Laughlin
How World’s Top Shipping Company Became Hub for Drug Trafficking – Bloomberg – this seems crazy
The tech ‘nepo babies’ are coming | Financial Times – SEC research found that seven or more years after listing, companies with perpetual dual-class shares underperformed. Still, founders continue to push for them
How World’s Top Shipping Company Became Hub for Drug Trafficking – Bloomberg
China
China’s Dangerous Decline | Foreign Affairs
Refreshing our approach? Updating the Integrated Review – Foreign Affairs Committee – China ‘a significant threat to the UK on many different levels’ and dependency should be curbed, MPs warn. While supporting a potentially risky shift in using stronger language towards the economic and military giant, the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) argues it must be backed up by action rather than “empty rhetoric”.
COMAC’s challenge to Airbus and Boeing and the perils of forced technology transfer.
Energy
500kV Black Sea submarine cable to connect Georgia to the EU | EE Times
Health
What are the ethics of AI reading animal X-rays? – Futurity
Media
Wall Street Journal on how financial companies are now buying up YouTuber back catalogue content in the same way that they have previously bought up music back catalogues
Online
The internet wants to be fragmented – by Noah Smith – this isn’t a new idea Forrester Research branded it the Splinternet and did a whole report on it back in 2010.
Security
China/US blacklist: chip designer Cambricon becomes tech war casualty | Financial Times
Technology
Siemens ports Sokol Linux to RISC-V | EE Times – I think that there is a long slow pivot away from ARM processors