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Telefónica inks strategic AI partnership with Microsoft

Under the deal, both companies aim to develop innovative services for the telecom sector BARCELONA -- Telefónica and Microsoft have put in place a strategic partnership to collaborate on projects to accelerate innovation in the telecommunications field. The new agreement, announced during the Mobile World Congress...

Editorial Webinar: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

AT&T, Cisco, Microsoft back new Dallas tech incubator to bring IoT, AI to smart cities

A new smart cities incubator has been launched in the Dallas Fort Worth region. It will focus on smart cities related technologies. Big-name collaborators on the project include AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft, as well as local academic institutions. The new Innov8te incubator, led by the...

Editorial Webinar: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

Telensa intros smart city platform to tackle cost and trust issues with urban data

UK smart street lighting company Telensa has launched an open data platform for smart cities to collect, protect, and make use of urban data. The city of Cambridge in the UK is the first to sign up. The initiative, branded the Urban Data Project, is...

In 5G trial, Cisco and partners look ‘beyond the city’

Precision agriculture is a key focus of rural 5G trial While the long-term plan for 5G is widespread coverage, we're still in the early days and commercial deployments are largely focused on major metro markets. However, Cisco U.K., along with partners are looking "beyond the...

Kagan: Microsoft finally throws in the wireless smartphone towel

After a decade of swings and misses, Microsoft finally threw the smartphone towel and is exiting the business. I have discussed this many time over the last decade. Microsoft has wanted to win in the wireless space for so long. So, why did they...

Microsoft inks agreement to open AI, IoT lab in Shanghai

  The new facility is expected to be inaugurated in April this year   Microsoft has signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation to locate its new artificial intelligence and internet of things Insider Lab in Shanghai, China, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The memorandum was signed between the...

Qualcomm looks to bring 5G to PCs in 2019

Always-connected PCs to get boost with Snapdragon 8cx While Qualcomm is best known for powering smartphones, the chip vendor has been fine-tuning its approach to what it calls "always-connected" PCs, and last week announced a new compute platform it sees providing an evolutionary path to...

Mastercard’s sweet 16: Smart ‘cities’ set up new urban knowledge exchange

Mastercard has confirmed 16 ‘cities’, or rather urban centres, as founding members of its City Possible programme, convened to foster public-private collaboration in the smart cities space. The ‘cities’, varying in profile, joining the City Possible initiative are: Athens, Aurora (Illinois), Baltimore, Dubai, Dublin,...

Why any developer can leverage artificial intelligence (Reader Forum)

Artificial intelligence is a technology that presupposes the advents before it and builds upon them to create an invention of endless applications and limitless possibilities. AI is, in no uncertain terms, a revolutionary technology with implications well beyond its surface. Research continues to further our...

#TBT: Mobile video? Meh; embracing mobile IM; Microsoft vs. Symbian smartphones … this week in 2004

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Baby steps toward...

Platform provider Particle intros new IoT developer kits, Microsoft IoT coding studio

Platform provider Particle has released a round of new internet-of-things (IoT) developer tools and an IoT app design programme based on Microsoft’s coding studio. Particle’s IoT platform underpins offerings from the likes of energy provider Engie, design studio Ideo, crops provider Grow Labs, and coffee...

Sensors, data and control: How the cannabis industry got high (tech) with IoT

Cannabis growers, like other agriculturalists, are turning to internet-of-things (IoT) technologies, essentially comprising sensor devices and data analytics, to bring new efficiencies to their operations, and improve yields and profits. The impact has been seismic. Marijuana is a booming business in North America. US states...

Nokia offers CityIQ platform from GE to cities in Canada; DimOnOff and Microsoft team up

Nokia is to offer GE’s CityIQ platform technology to municipalities in Canada to repurpose outdoor street lighting into digital infrastructure, and help with common challenges like parking and traffic management, public safety enhancements, and weather and air quality monitoring. The CityIQ platform, from GE’s lighting...

PTC tops three separate polls of the leading industrial IoT platforms

Needham-based industrial software maker PTC has come top in a series of reviews of industrial IoT (IIoT) platform providers. Its ThingWorx proposition has been consistently identified by analysts in 2018 as a leading platform for digital transformation. PTC also topped Gartner’s inaugural ‘magic quadrant’ for...

GE to integrate Predix with Azure, co-develop IIoT solutions with Microsoft

GE Digital will integrate its Predix portfolio with Microsoft Azure’s cloud capabilities, and standardise its Predix solutions on Microsoft Azure, it has announced. GE and Microsoft said they will also work together under the terms of an expanded partnership on the development, marketing, and sales...

#TBT: U.S., South Korea are wireless winners; cellular kills Japanese paging market … this week in 1999

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! U.S., South Korea...

Microsoft’s Azure IoT Edge gets official release, security updates, certified modules

Microsoft has made its Azure IoT Edge service ‘generally available’, and added new categories including device management and security to its Azure IoT Edge catalogue.  It has also made Azure IoT Edge available on open source developer platform GitHub, which Microsoft acquired for $7.5 billion last...

Ford joins with AT&T to crowdsource mobility solutions in Miami, Pittsburgh

Ford has joined with AT&T, Dell and Microsoft to crowdsource ideas for mobility solutions in Pittsburgh and Miami-Dade County. Ford will award $100,000 to fund pilots of the best community-led ideas in each city. The two eight-month projects, headlined by the crowdsourcing element, marketed as...

LTTS integrates building solutions with new Azure capabilities

LLTS' smart city, campus and building solutions provides energy management, cloud-based space occupancy and asset utilization and performance management   Indian engineering and research firm L&T Technology Services (LTTS), announced new smart city, campus and building solutions integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service for...

Mega GitHub deal is good for IoT, provided Microsoft avoids “mass developer exit”

Microsoft’s mega $7.5 billion all-stock purchase of developer platform GitHub is good for the tech sector at large and for the ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market in particular, provided the US computing giant demonstrates a lightness touch in its integration work and avoids a...

Rain, cloud and the ‘Windy City’: How IoT is helping Chicago fight flooding

Sometimes you need indisputable proof to act upon even the clearest assumptions. If you’re a city council, spending public money on infrastructure to save local communities, this burden of proof is everything. The idea the natural environment can be harnessed in urban infrastructure to manage...

Microsoft promises to “up Houston’s tech game, starting from the grass roots”

Washington-state tech giant Microsoft will set up house in Houston, Texas, as part of a long-term effort with the city authority to drive grass-roots innovation, stimulate the local economy, and develop new smart city solutions. Houston said it was the first US city to be...