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In This Issue     Feature: Hitting Their Own Walls: The Telecom Struggle Part I: Smartphones Part II: Carrier Angst   Quotes of the Week   Takeout Window The Verizon vs. AT&T Wireless Maps   Upgrades and Numbers IBM Makes the SNS PRP Chip!!! Flat Lenses, Cool Optics Forbes Sells Out, Part II   Ethermail   In Case You Missed It... SNS Members Making News   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News.... How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where's Mark?

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"Your report was truly prophetic." - Dr. Dharmendra Modha, IBM Fellow and team leader behind the just-announced TrueNorth chip - the first instantiation of the SNS Pattern Recognition Processor. (See "Upgrades.")

 

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Recommended Reading:

 

Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology acquisition and military modernization; by William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon, and Anna B. Puglisi (Routledge, 2013).

 

This is the best book I have found on China's institutionalized, state-sponsored efforts in stealing crown jewel intellectual property from other nations. - mra.

 

   The Telecom Struggle

 

 

Part I: Smartphones

 

A funny thing happened to South Korea's march toward total domination of the cellphone market: it ran into its own business model, on a much larger scale.

 

A decade or so ago, back when Samsung was No. 5 in the global market, members read here that it would soon become No. 1. Well, as anyone following the company's financials and press will already be aware, Samsung - and fellow South Korean handset makers LG and, in a different way, Pantech - has just run into a buzz saw called China.

 

Pan-who?