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Nokia Webinar: Carrier Cloud Transformation – Profitability, Challenges and Strategies

Join Nokia for an exciting discussion on the current status of carrier cloud deployments across the globe and in the U.S.. Mobile broadband operators face many challenges and exciting new opportunities to build profitability by using cloud transformation. In this webinar, Nokia will examine which operators...

Top automotive manufacturers and hiring mobile experts

As the connected car market gains traction, some automotive manufacturers are seeking to add employees with expertise in mobile-related software, networking, security, testing and product development. Although the automotive industry still has far more mechanical engineers than software or network engineers and tends to...

Editorial Webinar: Connected Car: Security, Testing and Interference Issues

The connected car poses a number of market, behavioral and technical challenges. RCR explores those challenges and some of the key players working to solve them. In this webinar, we look at market drivers and consumer desires for the connected car as well as...

Feature Report: Connected Car – Security, Testing and Interference Issues

The connected car opens many topics related to testing.  Simulating safety systems, checking for interference, looking at the safety from malicious external influences.  This report will look at the challenges at hand and highlight some of the key players working to solve them. What you...

AT&T, CTIA CEOs talk IoT at Brookings Institute

WASHINGTON – Academic think tank the Brookings Institute hosted a panel on Oct. 21 to discuss the emerging economic force that is the "Internet of Things" and how it is transforming the global economy. Panelists included Glenn Lurie, CEO at AT&T Mobility; former Federal...

What is DSRC for the connected car?

Dedicated short-range communications technology, or DSRC, is one of the primary areas of research and development for a network exclusively for transportation-related uses. Here are some of the basics on DSRC. What is DSRC? DSRC is is "a two-way short-to-medium-range wireless communications capability that permits very...

Four connected car infographics that capture the ecosystem

Looking for a quick rundown of the connected car market, expected trends and predictions? These four connected car infographics pack a lot of information into a space smaller than a smart car. Jabil gives its perspective on 10 hot connected car trends for this year in...

Local storage enabling industrial and automotive IoT

As all devices become connected, industrial, automotive and consumer needs for the transfer of data are exploding. Network connections, bandwidth and cost will not support transferring all this information in real time to the cloud. This means local storage will continue to grow at a...

EMEA: BT brings ethical hacking to the connected car

Connected car hack research extends reach I recently had an opportunity to speak with Martin Hunt, BT Global Services' automotive industry practice lead, at the CyberSecure Car 15 conference in Dresden, Germany. While ethical hacking is not normally a topic one associates with BT Global Services, the...

6 predictions for the connected car market

As more and more wirelessly connected cars hit the market, a number of trends are becoming evident. RCR Wireless News will spend this month examining the connected car market, including these six predictions: The connected car market will be big, broad and global. Connected cars are...

Robot Taxi brings self-driving cars to Japan

The end goal of the connected car is autnomous driving as a way to reinvent the way people get around; but, it's clear there's a long runway before widespread consumer adoption. However, certain niche aspects of transportation could realize the efficiencies associated with autonomous...

EMEA: Intelligent transport programs from InterDigital

Recently I had an opportunity to speak with InterDigital about oneTransport, which has emerged from Innovate UK’s integrated transport initiative and is the concept for an open market place to access transport data and transport analytics in order to develop intelligent transport solutions. The program...

EMEA: CyberSecure Car 15 roundup

Last week, Dresden was host to the CyberSecure Car 15 conference with experts from the automotive and security markets discussing the topic in detail. The two-day conference covered many interesting topics and some of the highlights are included in this overview. One interesting topic posed...

EMEA: Booz Allen talks automotive cybersecurity

Booz Allen may not be a name that immediately comes to mind when thinking about automotive cybersecurity, but it should as the company has a practice that looks specifically at security. A team of automotive and cybersecurity experts work with automotive original equipment manufacturers...

Driverless shuttles navigate Netherlands roads

As part of a sustainability project, two driverless shuttle vehicles called WEpods are slated to begin running a regular route in Holland beginning in November; this marks the first time driverless vehicles the first autonomous, electric shuttles will be used on public roadways rather...

Ethernet inventor Metcalfe on innovation, IoT, more

Bob Metcalfe joins latest edition of RCRatx Speakers Series RCR Wireless News was joined this week for the latest Speakers Series installment by Bob Metcalfe, networking pioneer and Ethernet inventor, to discuss the evolution of Ethernet, the "Internet of Things," the nature of innovation and...

EMEA: Deutsche Telekom innovates connected driving

Innovation is a key theme in telecom; so key, in fact, it runs the risk of becoming nothing more than a buzzword unless organizations have some substantial proof points behind the buzz. Thought leadership is important. These topics show that an organization is thinking about...

Senators ask auto industry for better cybersecurity

WASHINGTON – Two Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation have sent letters to the CEOs of 18 major automakers asking that they conduct a comprehensive overview of vehicles' vulnerabilities to hacking, and elaborate on what they are doing to...

EMEA: NXP to enable smart car keys

NXP today announced the launch of its RF chip family to advance long-range smart car keys. The chip family offers two-way RF link functionality to enable bidirectional communication between the key fob and the car at a distance of up to 500 meters. In addition...

AT&T brings Wi-Fi to your vehicle

ZTE Mobley, powered by Qualcomm chip, now for sale in AT&T Mobility stores LAS VEGAS – In the march toward fully autonomous driving, our vehicles are becoming increasingly connected. And while that self-driving future is still down the figurative road, current automotive connectivity is focused...

EMEA: BT Global Services ethical hacking secures the connected car

Recently I had an opportunity to meet with Martin Hunt, senior business development director of the automotive industry practice for BT Global Services, to better understand how BT is working in the connected car space. It’s important to clarify that BT Global Services is just...

EMEA: Could the Vienna Convention derail Europe’s autonomous driving plans?

Could something that was agreed to in 1968 have an impact on the autonomous driving vision for the European Union? It could as there is a section pertaining to road traffic that is currently raising a stir. There’s been quite a bit of news...

Google brings self-driving cars to Austin

Technology powerhouse Google will begin to test its fully autonomous self-driving cars outside of its home base in Mountain View, Calif., for the first time with the addition of Austin, Texas, as a connected car testbed. Google made the announcement over the weekend with a...

EMEA: Securing the connected car with INSIDE Secure

Security and the connected car seem to be linked on a daily basis in the news the last few weeks. The question regarding hacking of the connected car has gone from if to when. Now the question is what is the best way to...