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Internet of Things (IoT)

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  Qualcomm scales out 5G for industrial IoT

  Comms tech giant makes major push to advance next-generation network product range to act as catalyst for digital transformation within industrial internet of things environment

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Three UK boosts 4G and 5G network capability

  Leading UK operator further progresses its £2bn network investment programme, claiming to have significantly transformed next-generation and existing network capability, as well as boosting indoor connectivity

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  O2, Microsoft reveal plans to develop mobile edge capability for private 5G

  Operator and IT giant O2 partners with Microsoft to trial the benefits of on-premise mobile edge computing in a private 5G network, paving the way for secure data management and enabling confidential information to stay on-premise at all times

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  5G-enabled sales to surpass €400bn and offer huge green gains by 2030

  Commissioned by global telco, study in five European geographies finds hugely positive socio-economic impact from 5G roll-out in terms of enabled sales, employment and reduced greenhouse gas emissions

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Unlicensed 6GHz spectrum puts 5G economic potential at risk, warns GSMA

  As countries diverge on their strategies for critical spectrum band, mobile trade association calls on governments around to license 6GHz to power 5G development rather than permit unfettered Wi-Fi6E expansion

• May 17, 2021 17 May'21

  How M1 is striving to be a digital telco

  Singapore’s M1 is dialling up its digital chops by monetising its data, building more personalised services for subscribers, and going beyond connectivity as it evolves into a digital telco

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  Google Cloud gets into orbit with SpaceX for data, cloud services

  Elon Musk’s low Earth orbit satellite constellation to locate ground stations in IT giant’s data centre properties, providing businesses with access to leading cloud infrastructure

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Mars expands Microsoft strategy to drive business agenda

  Mars plans to drive new data insights and AI across its supply chains to optimise production and lower its carbon footprint

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Cisco indicates intent to buy Socio Labs, Sedona Systems

  Network giant aims to purchase developer of technology to deliver automation for routed optical networking, and modern event technology platform provider

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  5PRING, West Midlands local authorities announce smart cities challenge

  5G accelerator issues challenge to innovators in health, social and public services to help lead the 5G revolution with local authorities

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  NCSC publishes smart city security guidelines

  Guidance for local authorities, IT and cyber professionals aims to ensure the security of connected, smart city projects

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Nordic real estate industry moves digital

  The Nordic real estate is investing in technologies like IoT to prepare the sector for the changing demands from customers post-Covid

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Deloitte: Widespread broadband infrastructure critical to the US economy

  Deloitte study finds that increased broadband coverage, adoption and speed is needed to create more US jobs and GDP, but warns of diminishing returns due to lack of widespread, high-quality broadband access

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Executive interview: Juergen Mueller on SAP’s tech strategy

  SAP CTO Juergen Mueller offers a glimpse into the company’s thinking around delivering business applications as microservices, among other areas and updates in its technology strategy

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Aryaka acquires cloud-based SASE platform Secucloud

  SD-WAN provider makes its first-ever acquisition with purchase of German security company

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  BT aims to extend UK fibre affordability with Home Essentials package

  The debate regarding access to gigabit broadband in the UK has to date been centred around geography, in particular providing access to places regarded as hard to reach, but UK telco BT believes there is also a financial barrier – one it aims to ...

• May 03, 2021 03 May'21

  New standard to simplify IoT device onboarding

  Fido Alliance’s device onboarding protocol will automate the process of connecting internet-of-things devices to device management platforms while improving security

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Eutelsat takes stake in OneWeb satellite service

  French satellite operator looks for growth beyond traditional broadcast and broadband applications, and becomes shareholder partner in UK government/Bharti Global LEO project

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake

  Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Red Hat eyes edge computing workloads

  Open-source juggernaut has enriched its enterprise Linux and OpenShift offerings to support edge computing workloads better

• April 26, 2021 26 Apr'21

  JLL assures better office experience for hybrid workforce

  Real estate and investment management professional services firm introduces collaboration suite designed to enhance employee connectivity, solidifying its suite of hybrid workplace offerings

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Australia and India team up on critical technology

  The first three projects under a joint research grant programme will focus on developing ethical and regulatory frameworks for quantum computing, AI and 5G

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  UK’s proposed IoT cyber security law gathers momentum

  New statistics appear to vindicate UK government proposals to force suppliers to be upfront about IoT security

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Nokia, Edzcom raise Konecranes R&D with 5G SA private wireless

  Network technology provider to fuel lifting equipment firm’s 5G research and digitised solution development for factories and ports, building on existing LTE private wireless investment

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Singtel debuts portable 5G technology kit

  Singapore telco develops 5G technology kit that includes all the equipment needed for enterprises to test 5G applications in their own premises

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Hyperbat accelerates industry 4.0 with 5G virtual 3D engineering model

  Vehicle battery manufacturer uses the latest 5G-enabled technology to speed up the manufacturing process for hybrid and electric vehicle production in the UK

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Millions of devices at risk from NAME:WRECK DNS bugs

  Newly disclosed set of nine DNS vulnerabilities puts over 100 million consumer, enterprise and industrial IoT devices at risk

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Huawei steers towards intelligent vehicles in major corporate pivot

  Leading global communications technology provider undergoes major strategic corporate shift to maximise its software capabilities and provide components for intelligent vehicles

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  5PRING, Ferrovial challenge UK 5G innovators to lead UK construction ‘revolution’

  Leading UK 5G testbed provider announces partnership with global infrastructure operator to understand and assist in the development of the potential 5G has to take construction to a new level

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  Cisco, NEC advance 5G IP transport networks deployment

  IT provider and systems integrator team up to provide added value to the 5G ecosystems that are accelerating enterprise users’ digital transformations

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  EU advances Horizon 2020 project with 5GMediaHUB project

  EU advances project to accelerate the testing and validation of 5G-empowered media applications and NetApps through open, integrated and fully featured experimentation facility investigating network slicing, AR and VR

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Firms balance new tech deployment, security and skills as IT moves past pandemic

  Sunburst cyber attack rubs salt into the wounds of firms struggling to cope with the new demands on networks in the post-Covid working environment, says survey

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Verizon and AWS team on private MEC to bring enterprises an edge

  Partnership forged to allow enterprises to deploy a dedicated, private edge compute platform fully integrated with AWS cloud services and Verizon 5G private networks to improve productivity, safety and operational efficiencies

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  Plume introduces WorkPass for small businesses

  Smart home tech provider offers secure hyper connectivity and personalised smart home solutions as the home becomes the office

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Colt runs further with IBM to accelerate adoption of edge computing

  SDN and NFV-based connectivity provider selects cloud satellite technology to drive innovation and more flexibility for customers around deploying hybrid cloud applications at the edge and enabling distributed cloud

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Belgium’s Federal Justice Service advances digitally with fast networks

  Security and networking firms team to claim 20 times faster connectivity for Belgium’s justice system so it can hold court hearings and prison visitations remotely and exchange information between services and applications securely

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Recognising APAC’s top industry leaders

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts to tap new business opportunities, improve efficiencies and solve pressing issues

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Bharat Petroleum refines operations with a digital nerve centre

  Bharat Petroleum has developed a digital nerve centre powered by the internet of things and artificial intelligence technologies to monitor the journey of its products

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Jio Platforms taps machine learning to manage telco network

  Why India’s largest telecom operator built its own machine learning platform to meet the growing data and signalling requirements of new networks

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Nokia, Key Bridge Wireless forge partnership to deliver enterprise CBRS

  Comms tech provider and automated frequency coordination and spectrum administration solutions firm team to introduce integrated citizens broadband radio service offering for comms service providers, multiple-system operators and enterprise private ...

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Leading Israeli IoT firm lands in US as worldwide malware attacks surge

  With US end-user internet of things devices expected to grow to $1.6tn by 2025 and with more than 5.4 billion IoT connected devices in North America alone, tech firms and the black hat community are weighing up the potential

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  Bharti Airtel taps OpenStack to modernise telco network

  India’s Bharti Airtel turns to OpenStack to ready its network for emerging technologies such as 5G and edge computing

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Google Cloud claims revolution with Network Connectivity Centre

  Cloud giant introduces platform designed to allow enterprises to simplify complex heterogeneous networks for on-prem and cloud connectivity needs and connect with Cisco SD-WAN as a single network

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Ericsson aims to make network services smarter with 5G Core Policy Studio

  Programmability tool designed to offer centralised management of end-to-end network policies for communication service providers

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Benu has the edge with cloud-native integrated SASE and 5G AGF

  New broadband network gateway said to offer industry’s only carrier-first secure access service edge architecture as market scales to billions of devices, users and services

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Northwest Australia to get digital boost

  A $1.5bn datacentre and connectivity project that links Perth and Darwin to the rest of the Asia-Pacific region is set to boost digital investments in northwest Australia

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge

  Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Nordic healthcare digitisation drives medtech growth

  Nordic medtech is growing rapidly as the healthcare sector adopts technologies such as artificial intelligence and the internet of things

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Canada’s Rogers and Shaw announce $26bn merger

  Canadian telcos come together citing the belief that 5G is redefining the innovation landscape and that significant multibillion-dollar investments are needed to deliver the connectivity that communities, consumers and businesses require

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Consortium makes big shift in autonomous vehicle research in the UK

  New SHIFT Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Report identifies the potential impact of deploying autonomous vehicle services across the UK with advanced traffic modelling helping to predict potential impact of autonomy on congestion, emissions, public ...