Although the new Wi-Fi 802.11ax standard, better known as the sixth generation Wi-Fi, was designed to improve the speed and stability of indoor wireless connections, the social and economic context of Latin America, following the historical trend and thanks to the WISPs, will turn this technology into one of the best allied tools in the […]
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E-commerce, cloud storage and online video behemoth, Amazon Inc., recently announced that it has reached an agreement with MGM Holdings to acquire the movie conglomerate for $8.5 billion, a move that highlights that the company owned by tycoon Jeff Bezos is ready to use heavy artillery in the video streaming war. What are the implications
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Although we have been hearing about multiple self-driving cars projects for several years and have witnessed some important advances in the field, the subject still has many technological, regulatory and connectivity limitations, something that could change in a short time if the 5G NetMobil project manages to get off the ground. What is the 5G
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Although Google has transformed the scope of Internet searches, making an exponential leap in the improvement of information classification and identification models and methodologies, as the inexhaustible production of data reaches almost infinite volumes of bytes, the world is urging for new technologies to efficiently manage the avalanche of information that is produced every second
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A prestigious Mexican teacher and researcher recently conducted a curious experiment with her computer science students, which once again showed that digital marketing tools not only store and interpret our behavior, but might be crossing the fine line of privacy, a fact that several cybersecurity experts have been warning about for several years and that
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Hardly any economic sector is as hostile to small micro and mini-entrepreneurs as the telecommunications sector. While in segments such as food, commerce or tourism, governments invest in incubation and strengthening programs; on the contrary, plans for telecommunications SMEs in Latin America seem to be designed to hinder their growth. How do small ISPs survive
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Television channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon or Discovery, achieved audience successes at the end of the last century through a bold strategy of incorporating humanist experts, who were in charge of designing content based on the characterization of target audiences, producing customized stories and revolutionizing the content industry. Based on the same principle, companies like
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Historically, the provision of telecommunications services has been closely linked to ownership of the network infrastructure, i.e. any company or person wishing to provide telecommunications services requires its own infrastructure, a concept that, although still in force, many governments, social organizations and associations, mainly in first world countries, are proposing to reevaluate it through infrastructure
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In 1984, the Japanese author Yoneji Masuda published the text “An Introduction to the Information Society”, where he characterized information as the most valuable asset of society during the following decades, a similar vision of the future shared by Marshall McLuhan and Alvin Toffler , and which eventually predicted many of the great sociocultural elements
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From its origins, the Internet was conceived as a collaborative, ecosystem, self-sustainable, participatory, distributed and accessible network to all humanity; a model that materialized the dream of an inclusive, diverse and plural society through technology. Although, technologically speaking, the Internet continues to maintain the guiding principles of its founding, it has ceased to be a
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