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Kagan: Facebook, Meta can recover if Mark Zuckerberg does the right thing

Over the course of one year, the stock price of Facebook, or Meta by its new name is tanking. There is a solution to this problem. That is if Mark Zuckerberg can see it and will take this exit ramp. Let’s take a closer...

Metaverse-ready networks: Is there a TIPing point for operators?

The role of operators and network disaggregation in enabling the metaverse vision takes center stage at FYUZ MADRID–The three-day FYUZ event was, in some ways, three distinct but complementary things—on day one the main stage was billed as the Open RAN Summit and highlighting O-RAN...

Meta reports second quarterly revenue decline in a row

Metaverse makers Reality Labs cost the company $3.3 billion It’s been a tough week for tech stocks so far, and Facebook parent company Meta’s third quarter results didn’t help. Meta posted its second straight quarterly revenue decline, reporting revenue of $27.7 billion, compared to $29 billion for...

Kagan: Facebook ignores hacked user plea for help

We’ve all heard the horror stories about stolen identities when our names and photos are stolen and used to create fake accounts on social media like Facebook and Twitter. It has happened to me before on Twitter, but they corrected the problem quickly. Then...

Meta pitches businesses, prosumers on metaverse with Quest Pro

With backing from Microsoft and a $1,500 price tag, the question remains: What will it take to make enterprises care? At this week’s Meta Connect event, Mark Zuckerberg and company offered a State of the Union on the metaverse. He updated the public on Meta’s...

Open RAN and network automation require a change in mindset

Throughout the Open RAN Global Forum (register for on-demand access to the virtual event here), there was a recurring theme around Open RAN being part of a larger technological transformation encompassing the move towards cloud, software, data and more IT-centric operations. This shift is...

Sateliot and AWS collaborate on direct-to-satellite 5G-based NB-IoT connectivity

Satellite telecom operator Sateliot is working to provide direct-to-satellite narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) connectivity, delivered by Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites. The company announced this week a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a fully virtualized cloud-native 5G core for its NB-IoT service,...

Qualcomm sees XR and the metaverse as ‘next computing platform’

Meta and Qualcomm entering into multi-year engineering collaboration to shape metaverse technology During his keynote presentation at IFA 2022 in Germany, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon continued his characterization of Qualcomm’s technologies as “your ticket to the metaverse,” calling the transition from 2D digital experiences to...

The Sunday Brief: Bigger questions after second quarter earnings

Greetings from rural Midwest.  Pictured is the American Broadband fiber inventory for a new market we are in the process of launching.  More details on that launch in a few weeks as we bring fiber goodness to unserved and underserved homes and businesses.  This has...

Kagan: Facebook Meta may finally be on the right track

Facebook has been struggling with their new metaverse identity. Last year, they announced the changing of their name to Meta. This was the first introduction to the general public about the new world they are stepping into. Excited Facebook executives apparently thought the world...

Kagan: Changes to expect in next chapter of Facebook story

What’s next for Facebook, now Meta, when Sheryl Sandberg exits? It has grown over the years from a start-up, college project under Mark Zuckerberg, to one of the world’s largest, most powerful, successful and influential communications platforms which took both leaders to achieve. Now...

‘We must lock arms:’ Meta exec calls for collaboration on metaverse

No one person is going to build the metaverse, the Meta exec said at last week's Connect EXPO At the recent Connect EXPO in Denver, Meta Director of Engineering Dan Rampton emphasized the need for collaboration in making the metaverse a reality, explaining that the...

How is 5G shaping the metaverse?

To get the metaverse to work for everyone, 5G needs to change. The metaverse can help make 5G work for everyone, too.

‘5G was born in the cloud,’ says STL exec at MWC Barcelona

STL’s Access Solutions CEO discusses the ‘fundamental change’ taking place in telecom and what this change means for the company and the industry as a whole At Mobile World Congress Barcelona, Chris Rice, the Access Solutions CEO at STL, spoke with RCR Wireless News about...

Verizon hones its edge for the metaverse

Verizon said that it's working with Meta to make its mobile edge computing (MEC) infrastructure support metaverse applications.

Meta unveils AI supercomputer

Meta says its Nvidia-powered AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) will improve online safety and ultimately accelerate metaverse development.