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CelcomDigi launches AI experience center in Malaysia

CelcomDigi said that AiX also houses a collaborative space that serves as a live lab environment for startups, large enterprises, academia and government Malaysian telco CelcomDigi launched its AI experience center, dubbed AiX, with the aim of creating digital solutions across a range of sectors...

AI, RIS, HAPS, 6G, AR/VR – five future techs to change the world

The World Economic Forum has listed 10 emerging technologies with the “greatest potential to make a positive impact in the world in the next three-to-five years”. Which is a curious kind of exercise, as it turns out, because five years is not long in...

Siemens goes big on industrial AI at Hannover Messe – new apps, services, partners

Hardly a surprise, but German industrial technology juggernaut Siemens has said it will go big on AI at Hannover Messe next week. In truth, quite how big is unclear, but it has stuck out a press notice with AI in the headline, and details...

Toward the metaverse: Rohde & Schwarz and Slalom join forces to realize 5G-enabled AR-animated avatar calls

The metaverse and extended reality (XR) applications are considered critical to unlocking the full consumer potential of the 5G technology. Rigorous testing is crucial to ensure the performance and market acceptance of these immersive experiences. Rohde & Schwarz and Slalom have collaborated to address...

Siemens taps AWS, Sony to show industrial gadgetry at Consumer Electronics Show

Siemens has announced a bunch of partners and products focused on the industrial ‘metaverse’ at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week (January 9-12), mostly linked to its Xcelerator software and platform. These include top-line work with Sony around augmented and...

Rohde & Schwarz Webinar: The metaverse and extended reality – a first test and measurement perspective

This webinar offers a comprehensive test and measurement perspective on 5G and 6G technologies as enablers of immersive virtual environments. Watch on-demand to explore spectrum utilization challenges and advancements, with a focus on the FR3 spectrum and THz frequencies. We also examine the critical role...

Editorial Webinar: Wi-Fi deep dive: State of standards, products and use cases

Wi-Fi 7 was built from the ground up with the 6 GHz band in mind, promising increased speed and capacity. With the latest generation of Wi-Fi on the horizon, this report explores the current and near-future standard and device ecosystem and potential consumer and...

InterDigital signs 6G research agreement in India

InterDigital said the agreement will be critical for enabling 6G networks to scale and meet increased bandwidth and coverage demands The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has announced a research partnership with U.S. company InterDigital with the aim of developing 6G enabling technologies...

Is your network AI ready? (Reader Forum)

In our lifetimes we've been witness to some rare yet truly transformative moments. The arrival of the World Wide Web is an obvious one; the launch of the iPhone is another in 2007. Well, we're amid the next truly transformative moment: the advent of...

A path towards industrial metaverse: Unlocking new value through emerging technologies (Reader Forum)

The metaverse has captured significant attention in recent years. Indeed, this immersive digital realm has inspired us to transcend physical limitations and explore new experiential opportunities. From Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) gaming to virtual concerts, the metaverse provides unique and interactive...

The drugs do work – enterprises get buzzed on the tech-no-one-shall-speak-of (aka Industry 4.0)

Are we being hoodwinked? Has the marketing got away from us? Maybe, and maybe not. When will we see a tech vendor put its name to a report that discusses the societal dangers of sacking a workforce to make everything zero-touch autonomous – so...

Kagan: What’s the next move for Meta with metaverse down, AI ChatGPT up?

What is the next move for Meta? Three short years ago Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook was so excited about the metaverse and how it was going to impact everything going forward, that he renamed his company. Ever since, he has been investing billions...

Enabling the metaverse with a device-edge-cloud continuum

No single company, network or technology can build the metaverse. Instead, the industry will have to tap into every available foundational technology across the ecosystem, from the very edge of the network all the way to the devices themselves. 5G and Wi-Fi, high-powered cameras...

Linux Foundation forms metaverse group

The Open Metaverse Foundation is organized into eight Foundational Interest Groups (FIGs) The Linux Foundation has formed the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF), a group designed to support the development of open-source software and standards for the metaverse.  The group is organized into eight Foundational Interest Groups (FIGs): Users,...

10 5G predictions for 2023 (Reader Forum)

It sometimes seems like we’ve been talking about 5G forever; yet ask Communications Service Providers (CSPs), vendors and other industry stakeholders, and you’ll hear the same refrain: we’re only at the beginning of this journey. With 5G coverage now blanketing many markets, we’re about...

Singtel and SK Telecom host metaverse event in Singapore

The event, Destination:ifland, was just the first part of a larger series called The Meta Guide Singtel and SK Telecom (SKT) held a joint metaverse event where attendees designed digital avatars and then participated in various activities. The experience, called "Destination:ifland", took place at the...

Kagan: CES 2023 shows difficulty companies face getting noticed

Important marketing lessons CEOs and CMOs should learn from #CES2023 The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) just concluded and it raged back to life this year after the pandemic. This year’s CES illustrated how difficult it is for companies to be seen and heard trying to...

Kagan: Facebook, Meta can recover if Mark Zuckerberg does the right thing

Over the course of one year, the stock price of Facebook, or Meta by its new name is tanking. There is a solution to this problem. That is if Mark Zuckerberg can see it and will take this exit ramp. Let’s take a closer...

SK Telecom inks metaverse agreement with Singtel

SK Telecom has recently announced the launch of its metaverse platform in 49 countries and regions South Korea’s largest telco, SK Telecom, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Asian communications technology group, Singtel, to jointly grow their metaverse businesses in some Asian markets,...

NTT DoCoMo, SK Telecom ink 6G, metaverse partnership

NTT DoCoMo and SKT will align their concepts and timelines for the early deployment of 6G Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo announced an agreement with Korean telecommunications operator SK Telecom (SKT) to collaborate on the enhancement of their respective "smart-life businesses" and as well as communications...

Enabling the metaverse with 5G

In my last blog post, I described how we’re in an exciting time to harness the low latency and high capacity of 5G to enable a new era of distributed computing —  where workloads can be split between the device, edge cloud, and cloud to enable the...

Qualcomm Webinar: Enabling the metaverse with 5G

5G is going mainstream across the globe, and this is an exciting time to harness the low latency, high capacity, high reliability, and flexibility of 5G to enable emerging applications like boundless XR for more immersive AR and VR experiences. These applications distribute processing...

Metaverse-ready networks: Is there a TIPing point for operators?

The role of operators and network disaggregation in enabling the metaverse vision takes center stage at FYUZ MADRID–The three-day FYUZ event was, in some ways, three distinct but complementary things—on day one the main stage was billed as the Open RAN Summit and highlighting O-RAN...

TIP, Intel zero in on mMIMO for metaverse

Intel will has begun work on 5G mMIMO Open RAN Radio Unit whitebox Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Intel have announced their joint effort to produce a 5G massive MIMO (mMIMO) Open RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) whitebox to address the capacity and intelligence needs for future...