Companies

The breach of SolarWinds and its Orion Platform software  captivated our collective attention in the final weeks of 2020. While arguably it was, and continues to be, considered the most significant event of the year, it is not the attack path most organisations should fear.

I often talk about the “new product mindset” the importance of developing products and services with the cumulative lifetime value they will generate in mind, compared to just the immediate value delivered on launch day.

Few people can take a Covid-19 test every day or even every week or month. A person with a negative result will not know if infected later or even shortly before the test.

Verizon has agreed to acquire incubed IT, the creator of a software platform providing autonomous navigation tools to administer, manage and optimise mixed fleets of robots in industrial settings.

IoT Nation, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem analytics, has released its 2020 IoT Ace Market Visibility Performance (MVP) rankings. These rankings are said to be based on the company’s “data-driven analysis of market activity” for more than 25,000 IoT-related companies worldwide.

A new interactive retail store, called CornerShop, has opened in London to demonstrate the store of the future, using the latest technologies to reimagine the shopping experience for food, drink and fashion.

WeMaintain, a provider in the lift market, has acquired French property technology start-up Shokly. The latter’s solution has, says WeMaintain, “revolutionised fire alarm maintenance and management, to increase its presence in the smart buildings sector”.

According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number smart homes in Europe and North America reached 102.6 million in 2020.

Qualcomm Technologies has announced the Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System, its fourth-generation 5G modem-to-antenna solution. Snapdragon X65 is designed to support the fastest 5G speeds currently available with fibre like wireless performance and to make optimise spectrum use for network flexibility, capacity and coverage.

Businesses that fail to capitalise on the public’s digital curiosity risk losing customers, say 48% of consumers in a recent European survey. And only 32% of European consumers believe the companies they interact with now deliver an improved digital experience compared to before the pandemic.

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of semiconductor solutions, has expanded its RA4 Series microcontrollers (MCUs) with 12 new RA4M2 Group MCU.

In a joint project, Infineon Technologies AG and DIGISEQ, an IoT platform provider with end-to-end service, utilise SECORA Blockchain NFC technology to deliver secured identity data.

Looking back a few years from now, 2020 might be remembered for something other than COVID, 5G, political rancour, or even ‘murder hornets’ in the US. We may recognise 2020 as the beginning of foundational changes for the telecom industry – changes that may either mean its undoing or its remaking into something new. As Marc

PiP IoT, a New Zealand-based manufacturer of ultra-rugged Internet of Things (IoT) sensing devices for Smart City and infrastructure monitoring applications, has signed a collaborative agreement with Yotta, a UK-based connected asset management software and services provider.

Global water monitoring equipment provider, Detectronic has selected the Aeris Fusion IoT Network to provide connectivity to support Detectronic’s continued expansion around the world

Lantronix Inc. a global provider of Software as a Service (SaaS), engineering services and intelligent hardware for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Remote Environment Management (REM), reports that its engineering team has supported Youbiquo, an Italy-based developer of wearable electronics and IoT devices.