Building on smart city project, Cisco will work with ICreate to explore the possibility to set up IoT hub in Gujarat.
U.S. networking giant Cisco signed two agreements with the International Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology and Gift in Gujarat, India,...
There are a number of unlicensed low-power wide-area network startups going toe-to-toe to be one to connect the biggest chunk of the massive and growing "internet of things" market. Players like Sigfox, Ingenu and Senet have been competing with each other over the past...
Japanese firm to pay $1.3 billion for the U.S.-based motion sensor solutions specialist.
TDK reached an agreement to acquire U.S.-based motion sensor solution provider InvenSense for $1.3 billion. The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
The...
SRG reports latest 3GPP meeting failed to reach a formal agreement on 5G standards timing, with AT&T and Verizon factions remaining at odds.
The push to accelerate the “5G” standards process looks to have hit a temporary snag as the topic was...
In addition to precision agriculture, the Nordic telco is also working on a smart parking pilot in Oslo.
Telecommunications operator Telia Norway launched precision agriculture services based on narrowband "internet of things" technology with the goal of providing farmers with a smart system for monitoring...
Avanade, an IT consulting company, is helping Williams Martini Racing harness IoT by using biometric data to analyze every aspect of pit stop performance and maintain an edge over rivals.
Avanade worked with Williams during the 2016 Formula 1 season to capture and evaluate a range...
Gigabit-based services will become the norm in 2017, with pressure and support coming from VR, 5G, cellular IoT, SDN and SON.
Editor’s Note: With 2017 virtually upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from across the mobile telecommunications space on...
Former Mavenir CEO to lead new charge with bolstered messaging, VoLTE, Vo-Wi-Fi platform targeting 5G, IoT and with heavily reliance on software.
Xura is set to become a larger player in the mobile communications space, inking a deal to acquire Mitel’s mobile...
Carnival Cruise Line is getting ready to make a major announcement at CES next month. Arnold Donald, CEO of Carnival Corporation, which owns Carnival Cruise Line, is scheduled to give a keynote speech at CES where he is expected to unveil what they call...
Thinxtra currently uses LPWA IoT network technology in Australia and New Zealand.
Thinxtra, an Australian provider of "internet of things" infrastructure, announced plans to launch a Sigfox low-power wide area IoT network in Hong Kong early next year. The Australian company said...
Ford Motor Company registered 1,442 patents this year, a 25% increase from 2015, and the most among the largest automakers in the U.S., according to the Detroit Free Press.
Based on data compiled by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Toyota was granted 1,368 patents...
In 2017, operators will realize the benefits of utilizing NFV to serve specific purposes in their networks.
Editor’s Note: With 2017 virtually upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see...
NFV, SDN and cloud platforms are seen as key components of the Broadband Forum Broadband 20/20 initiative, with a focus on driving revenue.
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Robin Mersh, CEO at the Broadband Forum, on how it expects its recently...
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...
IoT for Coca-Cola machine
IoT software and services company Bsquare has been working with Coca-Cola since 2006, on a project that would become the Coca-Cola Freestyle, an "internet of things"-enabled drink dispenser. Bsquare first served as the lead systems integrator for the Freestyle machine, before...
BT Compute for SAP enterprise solutions to be available for European customers in early 2017.
U.K. telco BT and T-Systems inked a collaboration agreement focused on the delivery of SAP cloud services. The agreement calls for BT to connect its customers to...
Driving adoption and ROI for the Internet of Things
In the coming years, billions of cellular-connected devices ranging from learning thermostats and wireless security cameras to in-vehicle infotainment units and diagnostic sensors will join the booming Internet of Things. And, with standardization tracking for 2019...
IoT spurs growing accelerometer and gyroscope market
The "internet of things" is helping grow the accelerometer and gyroscope market, which is expected to reach $3.5 billion by 2022, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets.
According to the report, "Accelerometer and gyroscope market by accelerometer type, gyroscope type,...
Google is giving developers a preview of a new "internet of things" operating system, Android Things, and plans to enable IoT updates directly from Google to improve security.
Google launched the developer preview for the Android Things OS and said the solution already is supported by...
ZTE made the case to combine work on cloud and fog computing at recent ITU-T CTO event in Thailand.
In a move to combine what it sees as similar technology attributes, ZTE offered up a support for combining work being conducted in cloud...
Greenwave Systems yesterday announced it integrated the Nuance Communications Mix voice and AI-powered natural language understanding (NLU) technologies as part of its AXON Platform for managed services. The solutions offered by the partnership will target networking and communications service providers with the hope of providing the ability to...
Standards challenges could impede the move towards 5G, though industry adoption of NFV and SDN could ease the transition.
Across a broad spectrum of industries, businesses are pinning their hopes for the future on the “internet of things,” and who can blame...
As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...
The millions of connected devices that make up machine-to-machine systems and are part of the "internet of things" need to be switched on, configured, provisioned for services, maintained, updated with software, recovered from error conditions, monitored, queried for data, repaired and taken off their...
