5G technology will be available to 58% of the world’s population by 2025, which will create new business models, services and applications for customers and enterprises, according to Huawei’s Global Industry Vision (GIV) report.
GIV also predicts that by 2025, there will be 6.5 million...
The UK has announced a £250 million investment for a National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab for the National Health Service (NHS), as the healthcare sector is poised for a “huge health tech revolution”, according to the new UK government.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said “experts”...
The
Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is piloting a contract automation tool
that uses artificial intelligence to negotiate between industrial companies,
without human involvement, to arrive at contract terms both sides can settle
on.
In recent weeks, the organisation has also issued comprehensive and constructive guides on trust and...
Walgreens, one of the largest drugstore chains in the U.S. has selected Theatro, a provider of voice-controlled mobile platform as a service for the hourly workforce.
Under the
terms of the contract, Walgreens is implementing Theatro’s enterprise-wide
solution at all of its 9,560 stores, with the first...
Intelligence at the edge is exciting. The edge allows devices to compute and analyze data closer to the user as opposed to a centralized data center far away, which benefits the end user in many ways. It promises low latency as the brains of...
The telecoms industry is poised to be transformed dramatically by Artificial intelligence. Over time, AI will be able to deliver the capabilities and insights telecom operators need in order to automate and proactively address issues in network, service and security operations, and customer care.
However,...
NXP and Nvidia both investing in AI for edge use cases
The vision for the combination of 5G and the internet of things revolves around leveraging the low latency of next-generation cellular networks with sensor data to create efficiencies through lightning fast data processing in...
Make the switch to 5G easy by adopting artificial intelligence in your networks
As 5G networks are lit up in urban cores and devices begin to hit the market, consumers are already seeing upward of 1 Gbps per second over the air. AND that’s just...
The German government has swelled its 2019 funding for artficial intelligence (AI) to €500 million and promised a further €500 million in 2020. The country wants to ensure advanced analytics and automation tools are in the hands of it entire industrial sector, it said....
Korean telco SK Telecom and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to carry out cooperation activities in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud and 5G.
Under the terms of the agreement, SK Telecom and Microsoft will combine their technological capabilities in areas such...
Companies have begun investing in AI, the next transformative technology. However, many are wasting money focusing on the wrong areas at this early stage. True, in coming years the AI revolution will completely reinvent the way we do business, but we are still just...
Ericsson announced the inauguration of its Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (GAIA) innovation hub in Montreal, Canada.
The Swedish company said that its new innovation hub will focus on research and development in artificial intelligence and automation.
Ericsson said its Montréal GAIA will create more than...
Ericsson and China Unicom have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development of commercial 5G and promote 5G technological innovation, the vendor said in a statement.
Signed at China Unicom’s 5G Innovation and Cooperation Conference in Shenzhen, China, the agreement strengthens the...
Ericsson announced the upcoming launch of Ericsson D-Fifteen, a new innovation and co-creation center at the company’s Santa Clara office, the vendor said in a release.
The Swedish firm said that the new center will enable the company to bring multiple core capabilities together under...
Chinese vendor ZTE has signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with compatriot heavy equipment manufacturing company Sany to promote the integration of 5G and industry while accelerating the digital transformation of intelligent manufacturing.
Under the
terms of the agreement, ZTE and Sany will explore the...
Future 5G investments will focus on creating service revenues
HANNOVER, Germany--Despite major marketing efforts coming out of the telecoms sector, industrial manufacturers today aren't focused on "leveraging 5G within the four walls of the plant," Accenture Senior Managing Director and Product Industry X.0 Lead Eric...
Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications — both network functions that support telecom network operations, and enterprise applications — are becoming virtualized. SNS Research estimates that service provider SDN and NFV investments will have a compound annual growth rate...
According to the GSMA, 5G networks will cover 40% of the global population by that year
5G connections are expected to reach 1.4 billion connections by 2025, representing over 15% of the global mobile market, according to a new study by the GSMA.
The report highlights...
Other areas covered by the agreement include smart cities, network transformation and cloud services
French telecom group Orange and Japanese company NTT signed a strategic research and development framework agreement which will last until 2022.
The main goal of the agreement is to share research findings in several key...
The new offering uses AI and automation to address telecom operators’ complexity challenges
Ericsson has launched a new artificial intelligence-based managed services offering for communications service providers.
The new offering, dubbed Ericsson Operations Engine, is an end-to-end managed services operating model that, through artificial intelligence and...
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 needs to run. But what exactly does that mean? IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, speaking to...
I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the first is about connecting and managing assets in transit, and the second is about...
The Chinese smartphone maker said these two technologies will be key for the firm’s growth strategy within the next five years
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced plans to invest over CNY 10 billion ($1.48 billion) in areas related to artificial intelligence and the internet of...
Revenues generated by technology in the global supply chain will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 11 per cent over the next five years, reaching $440 billion by 2023. Among emerging technologies, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will have the most...
