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Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022

Vox

In 2022, the economy slumped, stocks fell, inflation skyrocketed, and belts tightened. And then there’s Meta, which is continuing to invest a tremendous amount of money into the metaverse — something that may never pay off — because Mark Zuckerberg insists it’s the future of his company and also the internet.

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End-to-end service management and commerce

TM Forum

TM Forum’s Principal Analyst Dean Ramsay speaks to Comviva BlueMarble’s Head of Product Management Jens Voigt, at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress 2022. In this 10-minute video Dean asks Jens about: The key themes of the Mobile World Congress 2022. How commerce solutions can be applied to the Internet of Things.

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Ukraine internet outages spark concerns of broader blackout

The Verge

But as the conflict intensifies, many civil society groups are increasingly concerned about the possibility of direct attacks on the country’s internet infrastructure. The invasion has already reduced internet connectivity in some parts of the country. Currently, we are seeing about 80 percent of the load we usually see in Ukraine.

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper reveals details on customer terminals for satellite internet

GeekWire

Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet said when it’ll start launching satellites or providing broadband internet access from above, but it is sharing details about how customers will get their data. OneWeb’s current schedule calls for service to begin in northern latitudes by late 2021, with global coverage by mid-2022.

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How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

Vox

The internet is full of terrible corners, but none are as skin-crawling as what you see when you open a new account on TikTok. An unsullied For You page whose only knowledge is that you are human will serve you a disorienting combination of two things: hot girls’ butts, and advice on how to steal other people’s viral video ideas.

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LG's 2022 TVs Promise to Fix One of OLED's Biggest Downfalls

Gizmodo

LG is updating its fleet of OLED TVs at CES, and while the underlying technology remains mostly the same, the company’s 2022 lineup has gained some enticing enhancements. Read more.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Feb. 6, 2022

GeekWire

What Amazon’s big pay increase says about the company and the broader tech industry in 2022. Nintendo of America announced Thursday that one member of the Team Xecuter hacker group has been sentenced to 40 months behind bars for his role in his group’s creation and sale of tools used to pirate video games for the Nintendo Switch.