IoT News

EDITORIAL: On Wednesday Cisco wrapped up a “great year” in the words of its CEO by preparing to lay off one in every 14 of its workforce (or 5,500 people worldwide). The IT giant is at last turning its guns on the Internet of Things.

In Germany, Industry 4.0 – or the fourth industrial revolution – is one of the hot topics of the day. By connecting the virtual and the physical it promises to open up a whole new world of possibilities for manufacturers to do things better, faster and more efficiently.

Azuga, a provider of connected vehicle technology, has announced that seasoned fleet telematics veteran Thomas Erdman has joined as president of Azuga’s fleet division.

Companies don’t make “things”: that is not how most companies view their manufacturing activities. They make products, which is why I prefer the term “Internet of Smart Connected Products”, even though it is a bit of a mouthful.

AbilityNet’s head of Digital Inclusion Robin Christopherson has been honoured at the AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards for his outstanding personal contribution to inclusive technology.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) (#NeverBetter) has announced 5,500 job losses worldwide, representing 7% of its entire workforce, despite its CEO, Chuck Robbins reporting a “great year”. Fourth quarter revenues rose 2% to US$12.6 billion. Jeremy Cowan reports.

Vodafone UK has signed a 10-year extension to its existing agreement with CSL Dualcom (CSL), a UK provider of mission-critical alarm services for fire, security and health, to provide a managed Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity platform.

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the Internet of Things (IoT) will have a potential economic impact of $3.9 (£2.8) to $11.1 (£7.7) trillion in 2025, which will amount to approximately 11% of the world economy.

Infotecs, an international cyber security and threat intelligence platform provider, is combining Infotecs’s ViPNet technology with the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi mini PC.

To expand its M2M Partner Programme, Zest4 has invested in a well-known industry figure to lead its machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) business.

CEVA Inc., a licensor of signal processing IP for smarter, connected devices, reported that Novatek Microelectronics, has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XM4 intelligent vision DSP for its next-generation vision-enabled System-on-Chips (SoCs).

The number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in Australia and New Zealand was 0.5 million in Q4-2015 according to a new research report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight.

Interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones is growing in the telecoms sector, as these machines become suitable for more use cases.

For decades, enterprises have solidly built their knowledge, strategic insights and processes around well-established approaches to data management and analytics.

According to the new Worldwide Semiannual Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide from the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market will grow from $5.2 billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020.

Building on its advanced connectivity and cloud solutions portfolio, PlanetOne Communications announced it was named to the Verizon Partner Program as a Platinum member.