NVIDIA combining AI architecture with Arm machine learning platform
Two leaders in the machine learning/deep learning field have joined forces to push artificial intelligence (AI) into the quickly growing ecosystem of devices that comprise the internet of things (IoT). Announced during the recent GPU Technology...
Samsung and Fujitsu announce further investments in artificial intelligence
French president Emmanuel Macron said his government would invest 1.5 billion euros ($1.85 billion) into artificial intelligence (AI) research until the end of his term in 2022 as part of a strategy to accelerate innovation.
“We have...
Putting AI on devices moves processing to the very edge of the network
As 5G continues to develop in support of new latency-sensitive use cases, there's a broad move to augment centralized cloud-based services with processing, compute and storage capabilities at the network edge. Think...
VMware purchases E8 Security
VMware announced last week it has acquired California-based cybersecurity startup E8 Security. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
E8 Security's Fusion Platform leverages machine learning to identify cyber threats. Its purpose is to pinpoint malicious behavior and address vulnerabilities.
As part...
If Apple was first to AI with Siri, why then are they trailing today? We all know artificial intelligence is the future. We all know it is growing in importance and will dominate our world going forward. We all know Apple was first with...
Nokia has released a new version of its customer analytics solution that incorporates artificial intelligence algorithms, and the company says that the changes means getting faster results.
The new AI algorithms for Nokia's customer analytics software were co-developed with Nokia Bell Labs. Shelley Schleuter, head...
AI combines analytics and automation into actionable insight
Having been the preserve of mathematicians and sci-fi writers for 70 years, since Alan Turing showed digital computers could simulate formal reasoning, the field of artificial intelligence appears to be coming of age at last in practical...
The hype surrounding the potentially transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on the telecoms industry is impossible to ignore. AI was the talk of the town at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, again, at the end of last month, as...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial sub-text in the evolution of LTE and IoT networks. The deployment of AI-driven applications among the carrier community is limited so far.
“We are at the beginning,” says Luc Bretones, executive vice president of the France-based Orange’s Technocentre...
The categorization of artificial intelligence (AI) in telecoms can be cut any number of ways. Spanish telecoms group Telefónica identifies four business needs: in business optimization, market insights, customer engagement, and business innovation. Francisco José Montalvo, director of its ‘fourth platform’ business, says these...
The telecoms industry is heavily invested the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) based technologies. “The telecoms network is the basis for the outbreak of AI, and AI will greatly enhance the telecoms network,” comments Zhang Sihong, chief engineer of AI...
Microsoft to open data centers in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
Microsoft announced plans to open its first data centers in the Middle East, while expanding its data centers in Europe.
The Middle East data centers will be located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in United Arab Emirates....
Cybersecurity in 2018
The year 2017 was plagued by cybersecurity disasters, from Verizon accidently leaking the names, phone numbers and PIN codes of as many as 14 million customers to Equifax exposing sensitive personal information of nearly half the U.S. population. The year 2018 isn’t...
For too long communications service providers (CSPs) have been falling behind in customer experience (CX), while other industries have evolved to deliver amazing results. Retail, banking, and even some insurance companies are creating superior customer experiences that double as a competitive advantage. So, what’s...
The world’s first, entirely cashier-less store in Seattle opened recently. AmazonGo uses “intelligent” cameras and a powerful set of algorithms to “think”. It is a grocery outfit, but not as we know it. Shoppers simply scan their phones on the way in, grab what...
A Q&A with Werner Hamberger of Audi AG Steering Digital Production
Industrial leaders are implementing smart manufacturing strategies with the primary goal of improving operational efficiency and gain more value from business. One of the companies that has embraced digital transformation is German carmaker Audi....
The increasing capability of computer processing power and recent advancements in cloud storage have made the once sci-fi concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) an enticing reality. Many industries are currently exploring how to best leverage AI, and the telecommunications industry is no exception. In fact,...
The new smart factory platform aims to improve steel mill’s production efficiency
South Korea’s largest steelmaker Posco has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with General Electric (GE) to develop a smart factory platform that is expected to improve steel mill production efficiency and prevent...
We’ve been talking so much about artificial intelligence in wireless, but one thing we haven’t touched on is getting AI to synch with the way each of us think. Each of us is different. Some of us are positive thinkers and others are negative...
AI research and development requires a "balanced" approach
Technology giant Google, a subsidiary of parent company Alphabet, is engaged in a wide range of research into applications for artificial intelligence (AI) that include machine translation to remove language barriers, improving healthcare by empowering doctors to...
The telco is implementing AI in collaboration with Ericsson and Huawei
Vodafone Spain, part of U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone, aims to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improve the performance of its mobile network in Spain, local press reported.
AI technology from Ericsson and Huawei will...
5G, IoT, Services (vs. Apps), Over the Top (OTT), Smartphones, App Layer vs. OS Layer, Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) are hot mobile topics for 2018. There’s a number of new breakthrough developments that will make 2018 our best...
The Japanese telco will collaborate with Israeli firm Vayyar to focus on several IoT use cases
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank has partnered with Israeli firm Vayyar Imaging to collaborate in the internet of things (IoT) field. The companies also agreed that SoftBank will be the...
Thales outbids Atos for Gemalto
French aerospace specialist Thales outbid Atos for Dutch cybersecurity provider Gemalto. The company has agreed to purchase Gemalto for $5.6 billion, surpassing Atos’s bid valued at $5.06 billion.
Gemalto is considered the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards and credit cards....
