Author: Bob O'Donnell

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the recent announcement of Verizon’s deal with AWS to combine private 5G with AWS Outpost private cloud for a new type of edge computing, chatting on Intel’s new 3rd generation Xeon Scalable server CPUs and their impact on 5G infrastructure, discussing changes in the smartphone market with the exit of LG and the debut of Samsung’s low-cost A series, and analyzing T-Mobile’s 5G for All announcements on free 5G phone upgrades and the debut of their 5G Home Internet service.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the announcement of Arm’s latest generation v9 chip architectures unveiled at their Vision Day event and analyzing the news from Cisco’s CiscoLive event, including their latest efforts on Webex and hybrid work.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing Intel’s new IDM 2.0 manufacturing strategy, discussing Microsoft’s recent Remote Trend Index study on hybrid work expectations and chatting about a new Samsung chip co-designed with Marvell that’s designed to improve the power efficiency of 5G network infrastructure equipment.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin, Bob O’Donnell and special guest Steve Baker of NPD looking at the results of tech-related products sales trends in categories ranging from TVs and PCs to WiFi routers and monitors, throughout 2020 and into 2021, and what that says about the future of the tech industry.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the 10th birthday of Google’s ChromeOS and Chromebooks, chatting about an interview with the leader of Qualcomm’s Licensing Division, research on how work from home impacts women, a deal between automotive supplier Bosch and chipmaker GlobalFoundries, and analyzing the investor analyst days from Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T and what they say about the future of 5G in the US.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the news from Microsoft’s Ignite event in areas such as their Azure Percept IoT hardware and Microsoft Mesh mixed reality platform, discussing the release of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Sound technologies, and chatting about the multiple new business-focused 5G offerings from T-Mobile, including their Home Office Internet fixed wireless product.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Mark Lowenstein and Bob O’Donnell discussing a host of 5G-related news items from the past week including the results of the critical C-Band auctions for mid-band 5G radio spectrum, the announcement of T-Mobile’s new unlimited Magenta Max 5G data plan and what it implies, and the debut of HPE’s new telco-focused division and its first offerings, as well as the new partnership for 5G infrastructure between Intel and Google.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the recent quarterly earnings from Amazon and Google, chatting about the release of a new range of videoconferencing hardware and software from Poly, and discussing Microsoft’s new Viva employee experience platform and the potential impact on hybrid work environments.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the impact that social media platforms had on this week’s events in Washington, D.C., reviewing the new TV announcements from Sony and Samsung and the PC announcements from Dell, analyzing the automotive news from Harman and Mercedes-Benz, and evaluating the 5G-related news from Qualcomm and Verizon.

(Note that this was recorded just a few hours before Twitter banned Trump, Google removed Parler from the Play Store and Apple threatened to remove Parler from the App Store.)

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi, Ben Bajarin and Bob O’Donnell discussing what they expect to be some of the most important tech industry-related trends in 2021. Specifically, they discuss hybrid work environments, the evolution of semiconductors, 5G and connectivity, corporate social responsibility, gaming, and hybrid cloud and edge computing.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the news from Cisco’s WebexOne conference, discussing new chips from Marvell for the 5G Open RAN market, debating the Facebook antitrust news, talking about T-Mo’s new 5G Mobile hotspot and related plan, Microsoft’s addition of support for 64-bit Windows app emulation on Arm-based PCs, and Google’s addition of new features for Workspace that make it easier to operate with MS Office files.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the news from Nvidia’s GTC Conference and Arm’s Developer Summit, as well as the potential impact of a merger of those two companies, discussing the latest version of Google’s productivity suite, chatting about the latest desktop CPU introductions from AMD, and pondering the potential impact of the US government’s huge new report on potential antitrust concerns with Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the news from Microsoft’s Ignite event, chatting about multiple semiconductor chip and IP announcements from AMD, Arm and Qualcomm, and discussing the large range of products and services that Amazon unveiled.