NVIDIA Is the Key to the Metaverse

NVIDIA might be the best-positioned company to help grow the metaverse alongside giants like Meta, Google, and Amazon. NVIDIA’s core competency, producing powerful graphics hardware with chips capable of running huge calculations in parallel, is the same stuff that allows massive metaverse projects to run. More technological advancements and more massive scale is coming to […]

Telecommunications in 2022 Australia: 5G

Demand for internet connectivity has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns, with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) reporting data traffic in Australia hit an all-time high in 2020 and 2021. The Growth of 5G The number of global 5G networks has multiplied over the past two years and is expected to […]

Metaverse Evolution: A Five-Year Timeline

The metaverse, purported to be an immersive technology that will change the way humans interact, has attracted significant attention just in the past year. Goldman Sachs analysts predict that the metaverse could be an $8 trillion opportunity, driven by a new wave of technological innovation across augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), in addition […]

Cybersecurity Risks and the Russia/Ukraine Conflict

With Russia’s war on Ukraine showing few signs of ending anytime soon, Michele Landes of GLG’s Tech, Media, and Telecom team hosted Andy Grotto, Director of Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at Stanford University and the Former Senior Director for Cyber Policy at the National Security Council under President Obama and President Trump, to […]

NFTs, the Metaverse, and How They Fit Corporate Strategy

From NFTs (nonfungible tokens) to virtual real estate, blockchain-based assets have exploded in the past year. The phenomenon is driven partly by tech and international brands that anticipate people living a part of their lives in the future in the virtual world. This naturally draws corporations to take a closer look at ways to get […]

Metaverse Outlook and the Current Trends

This article was adapted and translated from Mandarin. In 1992, science fiction writer Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in the novel Snow Crash. In the novel, humans employ programmable avatars to interact with each other in a three-dimensional virtual space that is a metaphor for the real world. Stephenson saw the metaverse as the […]

The Outlook for Australia’s Data Centre Industry

The growth of Australia’s data centre industry over the past two years has been nothing short of amazing. The unanswered question amid this growth is whether long-term demand will be able to match all the recent supply that has come online and all the supply that’s supposed to be coming. Data Storage and Third-Party Cloud […]

The Key Risks in the Digital Assets Space

Blockchain’s primary function is as a distributed ledger, with copies of the database stored across multiple computers. While it may turn out to ultimately have its greatest use elsewhere, the blockchain’s most successful implementation thus far has been with digital assets. As of mid-November, there are more than 14,000 digital currencies with a market capitalization […]

The Reason Why There Is a Global Semiconductor Shortage

The semiconductor business has experienced shortages before, but the one that started because of the pandemic in March 2020 is much deeper, particularly in Europe and the Americas. So what happened? Amid the pandemic, demand dropped, orders were canceled. Asian factories went into a slowdown, and many closed as companies tried to figure out how […]

eBook: COVID-19’s Impact on Digital Transformation in India

The world is increasingly digital. Our personal digital devices are almost an extension of ourselves. We expect speed and efficiency from the companies with which we do business, while the world is served to us through a succession of screens. Until recently, some Indian companies either resisted or were making gradual progress toward digital transformation, […]

Indonesia’s Telecom Towers: A Quick Overview

Rising public demand for internet and mobile phone service in Indonesia, coupled with the government’s liberalization of its foreign direct investment rules, has created an encouraging environment for phone tower construction in the nation. Indonesian Telecom Players Currently, the five major operators in descending order are Telkomsel, the market leader over the past decade; Indosat, […]