Mobile & Wireless Roundup #97
Welcome to the 97th edition of this newsletter. This was a chaotic week with some of you having experienced the Microsoft outage that started on Friday and will dominate the news for few weeks to come. It affected an estimated 300 thousand computers in 150 different countries.
Andrew Harbison has provided a nice simple summary on LinkedIn here. Quoting just a bit from there:
“CrowdStrike are a large security company, based in Austin Texas who provide security software to a great many large enterprises. This morning they released an automatic upgrade to one of their programs called Falcon Sensor. Falcon Sensor is a kind of multi-purpose anti-malware, anti-intrusion system. Unfortunately the upgrade this morning had a serious flaw that caused it to crash computers using Microsoft Windows 10.”
CrowdStrike has released a blog with the details of what went wrong here. Zach Vorhies, a professional C++ programmer, thought it might have been related to NULL pointer exception and provided his analysis in a X thread here.
The funniest of the X posts was this guy who pretended to be the person who pushed the update that caused chaos. It has some 45 million views which you can read here. Eagle-eyed readers would be quick to spot the digitally altered image.
Finally, my fellow CW SIG champion for The Security, Privacy, Identity & Trust Group, Bob Oates, has shared his opinion and lessons learned on LinkedIn here.
For those of you who don’t know me, I am a technologist with over 25 years’ experience in mobile wireless technology, currently working as an independent advisor, analyst, consultant and a trainer. This newsletter is a summary of my posts and other news that caught my attention since the last newsletter.
? Telecoms Infrastructure, Small Cells, Antennas & others
? Open & Disaggregated Networks (including Open RAN, vRAN, etc.)
? Spectrum
? 6G
? 5G
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? Private Networks
? IoT / M2M / Smart Homes
? Connected And Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs)
? Smartphones, Devices, Wearables & Gadgets
? AI, ML & Automation
? Wi-Fi
? Other News and Technology Stuff
? Picture of the week: 10 years ago I wrote about how Sky News were using smartphones and the newly available LTE network to broadcast news. In a press release this week, International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra smartphones will help stream the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony on the River Seine and the Olympic sailing competitions through a private 5G network, powered by Orange. Some fantastic photos here.
Happy to hear your thoughts. Feel free let me know what worked, what didn’t, how I can make this better, etc. Get in touch over LinkedIn!
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CUBE Mobile Operations and Management - Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | Cisco Networking | SAP Fi-Co | Freelancer | Credit and Fraud Risk Analyst - Diners Club
4 个月Thank you for collecting all the important info which is great effort to bring them to a single window, keep it up
Principal Analyst & Consultant at 3G4G
4 个月This newsletter has been compiled with contributions from Andrew Harbison, Robert Oates, Peter Clarke, Dean Bubley, Ryan Jeffery, Sebastian Barros and Paul Rhodes. Thanks as always for sharing stuff on LinkedIn & X (f.k.a. Twitter) ??!