You love the idea of buying an AI and IoT device like Google Home or Amazon Echo for the holiday season. You want to speak and have it deliver a song or weather report or sports score. You’ve seen it. You’ve used it. Sounds...
Each year Ericsson looks ahead at consumer technology trends that will likely shape the way humans interact with their devices and with each other. In its latest report, The 10 Hot Consumer Trends for 2018 and Beyond, a theme emerges of a continuously more...
Return on investment (ROI) is a good thing for any business, but unwarranted product returns and exchanges bleed precious cash from your coffers. Reverse-logistics costs caused by product returns account for 0.5 percent of the GDP (Source: IGI Global publication on Industrial Engineering) -...
New product and investment speak to value of IoT for the smart manufacturing sector
Rockwell Automation is a major player in helping customers realize digital transformation and adopt IoT tools to create smart manufacturing operations that reduce downtime as a function of analytics, machine learning...
The smart traffic initiative stipulates the deployment of smart signals on 14 corridors across the state
Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan announced the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) is investing $50.3 million to deploy smart traffic signals that will improve traffic operation and ease congestion for...
Artificial intelligence center will be located in Montreal and will focus on the development of AI implementations across Thales’ portfolio
French company Thales, which designs and builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, defense, transportation and security markets, is building a center focused...
NEC said these new solutions will help companies willing to undergo digital transformation processes
NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a technology integrator of advanced IT, networking, communications, and multimodal biometric solutions, announced that it will show two artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT)...
The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab will encourage MIT faculty and students to launch companies that will focus on commercializing artificial intelligence inventions and technologies
IBM and MIT today announced that IBM plans to make a $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab...
Just as computing continues to evolve with new innovations (graphical interfaces, PC networks, internet connectivity, mobile devices, apps, Internet of Things), the vision of smart homes is, in step-wise fashion, becoming a reality for the mass market. Smart homes, until the past hand-full of...
ZTE is collaborating with international and Chinese operators for the development of AI technologies
ZTE has released its artificial intelligence (AI) solution which will allow telecommunications operators build next generation automated networks.
With a unified platform, ZTE's AI Solution can provide diversified applications for cloud...
In an effort to protect the U.S. government from hackers, a group of senators has introduced a bill that would legislate specific security measures for all connected hardware purchased by government agencies. The bill is called the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act...
Ask a few people what "AI" means, and you get everything from (a few) blank looks to "if it's a techno-organic, it would have legs like a cheetah but a human's body." Which is a pretty awesome answer.
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I was more than slightly disappointed that...
Under the contract, NEC will implement smart city infrastructure in Lisbon
Japanese company NEC announced that its Portuguese subsidiary has won a contract with the city of Lisbon, Portugal, to implement a smart city infrastructure project.
NEC Portugal said the smart city project has the primary...
The vendor said it expects to compete with Google and Apple in the AI processors field
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies is currently actively carrying out research and development activities to be in a position to launch artificial intelligence (AI) processors, Chinese press reported.
The vendor said...
The AI deal stipulates smart transportation and smart surveillance initiatives
Chinese internet giant Baidu has signed an agreement with the government of Shanxi province to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into city management, Chinese press reported.
Under the terms of the agreement, Baidu will cooperate with Shanki...
The collaboration between the two firms also includes a multi-year patent agreement apart from IoT cooperation
Finnish vendor Nokia and Chinese company Xiaomi have signed a business collaboration agreement and a multi-year patent agreement, including a cross license to each company's cellular standard essential patents,...
LG said these new technologies will be applied to the firm’s existing technology portfolio
Korean company LG Electronics announced the establishment of two new research centers that will focus on developing technologies for key internet of things technologies artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, according to...
ITT Inc. and Weather Telematics will targets verticals in North America and other territories including China
Canadian company Internet of Things (ITT Inc.) has signed a letter of intent to acquire Ottawa-based Weather Telematics, which specializes in predictive artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicle solutions.
Weather Telematics...
It seems like 2017 is the IBM Watson coming out party. You may have noticed their new television ad campaign showing how Watson and AI will impact, transform and improve company after company in industry after industry. Are you ready for artificial intelligence? Well,...
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has been described variously as a threat to humanity, a boon to economies, and many other things in between. All valuable technologies solve a pertinent problem. Until recently AI and its favorite children, machine learning and predictive analytics, have...
Vendors increase support for AI, analytics, 5G
A number of product launches this week aim to help operators navigate an increasingly software-centric world by better leveraging their networks and moving toward becoming digital businesses.
At TM Forum, Netcracker made its most recent platform release with the launch...
Surprise! Ready or not, like it or not, Amazon is installing Alexa on your Kindle. Some like this. Others don’t. Many ask what gives Amazon permission to break trust with their customers? An author friend of mine told me what Amazon did to her...
Telefonica has opened three new service operations center to trial intelligent network management
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica has deployed three dedicated Service Operations Centers (SOCs) in Argentina, Chile and Germany to test AI-based intelligent network management.
The European telco launched the new centers using Chinese vendor...
Hitachi’s Insights Laboratory will use advanced analytics and artificial intelligence.
Japanese company Hitachi formed its Insights Laboratory, which it claims is a global research team focused on accelerating the delivery of solutions for its internet of things-based Lumada platform.
The company said the Insights...
