Either cannibalize your own company or a competitor will do it for you and take your market share. This is one of the most important secrets of success. Most people are astounded by ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, and how rapidly they are...
The automotive industry is being shaken up by the next big technology wave of the "internet of things" and connected car. We are always looking for the next, big, hot opportunity for growth, and today there are so many different areas I often feel...
Microsoft/TomTom deal expected to allow developers to manage location-aware enterprise, mobile and IoT applications.
Dutch firm TomTom and U.S. software giant Microsoft signed a partnership to bring enterprise-grade, location-based services to Microsoft’s Azure platform based on TomTom’s maps, traffic and navigation software.
Under terms of...
SDN, NFV and cloud will further network transformation necessitated by 5G use cases.
WASHINGTON – Emphasizing the key role of communications in global economic development, Sorabh Saxena, SVP of software development and engineering at AT&T, said collaboration and innovation are musts if...
IDC reports India's cloud computing market will grow at a 26% CAGR through 2020.
San Francisco-based cloud computing firm Salesforce.com and its partners are looking to to drive nearly 500,000 jobs in the Indian market by 2020, India press reported.
The reports note that...
The Chinese firm also aims to expand current enterprise customer base and expand its portfolio of services.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is currently studying the possibility of opening additional data centers outside China next year,...
Cisco launches smart city cloud to collect, analyze and share data
The smart city vision involves enriching quality of life by gaining data insight from interconnected sensors, devices and people. Perpetual urban issues like security, waste management and traffic can be addressed by using data...
Building on existing partnership, Ericsson and Cisco will further collaborate on IoT, security, Wi-Fi and data center switching
Ericsson and Cisco have expanded the scope of a strategic agreement to now include new areas of business such as data center switching, Wi-Fi, security and the...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a center for the robotic exploration of space, having sent a robot towards every planet in the solar system. Cloud computing is an essential part of the tactical operations for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. From the control room...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a center for the robotic exploration of space, having sent a robot towards every planet in the solar system. Cloud computing is an essential part of the tactical operations for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. From the control room...
The carrier completed a fiber network expansion, adding a DWDM route linking Frankfurt and Warsaw
Telia Carrier extended the reach of its global IP backbone through the completion of the Frankfurt-Warsaw Express, a direct dense wavelength division multiplexing fiber network route from Frankfurt, Germany, to...
Cloud Foundry Foundation said the gap in cloud developer skills is threatening the firm’s digital transformation
Companies in Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom are having trouble hiring cloud developers, Cloud Foundry Foundation’s Marketing & Research Head Devin Davis told RCR Wireless News.
The executive said companies...
The two companies partnered to deliver mobile edge computing proof of concept
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) and Finnish vendor Nokia aim to carry out trials of mobile edge computing (MEC) during 2017.
The two companies recently announced a partnership to deliver a proof of concept (PoC)...
Huawei is planning a commercial trial of NB-IoT in Q4
Huawei announced the large-scale commercialization of its end-to-end narrowband "internet of things" solution will take place starting next year.
The Chinese vendor said its NB-IoT solution is designed to help global operators expand services into new markets....
The telecom industry is awash in merger talk at the moment, continuing a wave of consolidation that is seeing service providers complement delivery networks with content holdings, and has trickled down to the entire vendor ecosystem as high-capital costs coupled with declining revenues set...
IBM asked me to give a speech at its World of Watson event this week. In preparing my remarks, I realized what I will be talking about is so important, yet most don’t understand what is happening. It’s about artificial intelligence, the "internet of things," virtual...
Mirroring continued consolidation in the telecom industry as a whole, this week two major market strategy and consultancies, 151 Advisors and James Brehm and Associates, joined forces under the 151 Advisors brand name.
The new combined company, with a global workforce of more than...
Heineken launched a global marketing campaign, partnering with the Bond franchise and using Microsoft Azure for "technically demanding" promotions, including one for the UEFA Champions League that required low latency and support for over one million users, according to a case study provided by...
Heineken launched a global marketing campaign, partnering with the Bond franchise and using Microsoft Azure for "technically demanding" promotions, including one for the UEFA Champions League that required low latency and support for over one million users, according to a case study provided by...
Microsoft said digital strategies are key for the survival of telecom operators
BERLIN – Telecom operators should think in a different way in order to launch digital transformation strategies, Bob de Haven, GM of worldwide communications and media at Microsoft, said during the Amdocs Experience 2017...
Back in August we wrote an article answering the question on everyone’s mind: "What is the internet of things?" We spoke about some of the embedded systems used in the "internet of things," and how it can transform a number of industries. As the...
Back in August we wrote an article answering the question on everyone’s mind: What is the internet of things? We spoke about some of the embedded systems used in IoT, and how it can transform a number of industries. As the internet of things...
The cloud deal aims to connect over 3,500 sites across 37 markets
British Telecom signed a contract with global human resources services provider Randstad Group to deploy a new global information technology infrastructure providing cloud connectivity to more than 3,500 sites across 37 countries in Europe, North...
Digital transformation is a trending buzzword in the information technology industry. While somewhat nebulous, it speaks to the need for generally risk-adverse, slow-moving enterprises to embrace things like the app economy, cloudification and software-based virtualization of business process. Factor in the threat from highly focused startups...
