January 2019

A new report reveals that technological investment in PropTech for commercial real estate (CRE) interests will continue to rise in 2019 as industry leaders take a more active role investing …

After rebranding as The We Company, the largest co-working provider in the United States is introducing membership-free co-working spaces in retail areas. ? The We Company?s latest endeavor is to …

The exponential growth of IoT devices, estimated to reach a whopping 75 billion by 2025, has initiated a partnership between the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Internet of Things …

AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. …

The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. …

The Federal Communications Commission’s auction of millimeter wave spectrum at 28 GHz has concluded after 176 rounds, having raised nearly $702.6 million in provisionally winning bids. According to the FCC, …

Amazon is to take a seat on the Zigbee Alliance board of directors. The Zigbee Alliance said the decision shows the IoT market is convening around its technology as a …

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe told the World Economic Forum in Davos this week his country has been revitalised by recent economic policy, and will exploit data to create a …

Much of the activity on 5G spectrum in the US to date has focused on millimeter (mmWave) spectrum, but it is not clear that mmWave spectrum will be suitable for …

Two recent studies highlighted consumers’ willingness to pay a premium for 5G service, but devices, and whether 5G actually provides a new kind of customer experience, could prove to be …

  The Asian carrier said it has already deployed a total of 5,500 5G base stations South Korean telecom operator LG Uplus confirmed that it aims to complete the deployment …

  The European Commission said Spain, France, Germany and Italy account for 40% of these 5G trials Europe ended 2018 with a total of 139 5G trials in 23 countries, …

  Siemens said that the project, which will be executed in two years, stipulates the deployment of 250,000 smart meters   A Kamstrup-Siemens consortium announced that it will deliver a …

Note, this was originally intended to be a two part series covering Airbus’ four essential lessons for Industry 4.0. Here, we are inserting another entry and another lesson, of sorts, …

Huawei says new 5G chipset supports sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave frequencies 2019 is set to be a big year for 5G smartphones. Right now device availability is quite limited–Verizon …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on …

A national CTO should focus on digital inclusion As technologies like 5G, the internet of things, data analytics, and the like are increasingly incorporated into city-, state- and national-level strategic …

Metaphors aside, big data is the key to AI development We’ve all heard the comparison, perhaps too often, but here it is: big data is the new oil that business …

Membership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations and a number of international organisations …

A new industrial consortium including SAP and Siemens has convened to help industrial organisations go beyond the ‘pilot trap’ with their Industry 4.0 deployments. The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) …

Sigfox USA has confirmed its president, Christian Olivier, has left the business. It said the decision was mutual, and the business is preparing a new appointment to drive the “next …

Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel continued her backing of an incentive auction for Educational Broadband Service licenses at 2.5 GHz at a forum in Washington, D.C., framing it as a …

Study finds executives appreciate the benefits the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring but many lack a clear strategy Political and corporate leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the …

  The two UK carriers said they also aim to upgrade their transmission networks with higher capacity optical fiber cables   UK carriers Vodafone and Telefonica UK (O2) have signed …

  The Singaporean telco, together with Noki,a had launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in 2017   Singaporean telco M1 said it will use Nokia’s Impact IoT platform to bolster its …