Intel buying Movidius ‘to accelerate computer vision through RealSense’ for next gen computing

Combined with Intel’s existing assets, Movidius Technology – for new devices like drones, robots, virtual reality (VR) headsets and more. Intel expects it to position the company to lead in providing computer vision and deep learning solutions from the device to the cloud.

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Vodafone connects new Skoda Kodiaq

Vodafone is providing the integrated connectivity for the new Skoda Kodiaq car, launched last week. A specialised SIM card keeps the vehicle connected to the Vodafone network and allows the Skoda Connect service to provide the driver with a range of information

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Australia bids to help establish Hypercat as new global standard for IoT and smart cities

An alliance of Internet of Things (IoT) industry players, corporates and government, has launched Hypercat Australia as a technology standard to support the development of smart cities.

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Huawei big data platform fuels development of Informatica PowerCenter data integration

Huawei announced that the Informatica PowerCenter data integration solution has earned a ‘Huawei Ready’ certification.

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CEO lifts the lid on EE merger in his book ‘The 4G Mobile Revolution’

A book written by Olaf Swantee, the former CEO of EE “reveals the lessons to take away from the merger of Orange and T-Mobile that led The 4G Mobile Revolution.”

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Actillity ThingPark and Digita to roll out a national LoRa network for Finland

Actility, the industry leader in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN), and Digita, the Finnish broadcast network operator, are teaming up to take the next step towards a fully-connected Finland by rolling out a LoRa network.

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Malibu launches a smart bottle that delivers content to consumer smartphones via NFC

Malibu, the world’s number one coconut flavoured rum, is celebrating a global first with the largest deployment of near field communication (NFC) enabled bottles.

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ESCRYPT and GlobalSign to join Infineon Security Partner Network with smart factory solutions

With ESCRYPT Embedded Security and GlobalSign, the Infineon Security Partner Network (ISPN) welcomes new partners.

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LTE to dominate M2M market after 2021, says Ovum

Ovum’s latest forecasts show that cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections (not including NB-IoT) will reach 733 million globally by 2021.

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Smart transport initiative begins by investigating traffic flow at British Grand Prix MotoGP

oneTRANSPORT, a revolutionary smart city initiative focused on creating better transport networks across the UK, took a major step towards commercial deployment at the UK’s Silverstone Circuit for the British Grand Prix MotoGP™ last weekend.

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Fog computing and real time communications in the mist – Part 2

Complementary, not oppositional Fog Computing aims to resolve some of the challenges of cloud computing by reducing latency, optimising WAN bandwidth consumption, strengthening security, and improving redundancy and availability.

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Trusted Objects aims to provide enhanced security to IoT for embedded firmware solution

Trusted Objects is aiming to provide enhanced security to the Internet of Things (IoT) through its embedded firmware solution for LoRaWAN™ networks.

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Weightless-P hardware and Weightless Ignition Pack launched at CTIA

The Weightless SIG announced the availability of Weightless-P hardware and the pre-launch of a Weightless-P Software Development Kit.

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Fog computing and real time communications in the mist : Part 1

The speed at which technology trends evolve these days is amazing. When we are still in the middle of the Cloud revolution,

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Berlin’s IFA is the venue for three connected device launches by Qualcomm

Qualcomm made a series of announcements at IFA in Berlin, involving virtual reality (VR), smartwatches and home entertainment.

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AT&T and Sierra Wireless pilot LTE-M modules for IoT to help cut costs, improve device performance

Sierra Wireless and AT&T will pilot next generation LTE-M network technologies this autumn. The pilot programme aims to spur LTE network connections for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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