Utilities

In my opening remarks at the Product Innovation Conference in Berlin, I talked about a famous Berliner, Bertolt Brecht. You might wonder what does the influential poet, playwright, and theatre director has to do with engineering, innovation and digital transformation?

TomTom (TOM2), a provider of navigation and mapping products, and M2M DataSmart, wireless data service provider, announced a solution to improve the trucker data logging experience.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced 4G LTE availability of the Gear S3 classic, bringing enhanced LTE connectivity to the elegant and stylish smartwatch so users can call, navigate, pay, and more, all without their phone.

Huawei, a global information and communications technology solution provider, has announced a new partnership with Software AG to support the increasing demand from companies for a complete one-stop-shop, Internet of Things (IoT) solution.

NEC Corporation has joined the FIWARE Foundation e.V., a non-profit organisation. The foundation promotes the dissemination of FIWARE technology, as a platinum member. NEC is the first and only Japanese company to join the foundation.

Imagine waking up one morning to do the school run and realising that your whizzy, WiFi-enabled home has been hacked, and you can’t use your connected devices until you pay up a serious amount of bitcoins.

Autotalks, a global provider of V2X (Vehicle to Everything) communication solutions, announced the completion of its Series D round with $30 million to expand its worldwide operations and accelerate deployment of technologies for safer and smarter autonomous vehicles.

On a global scale, more people are moving into urban areas rather than rural. According to The United Nations World Urbanisation Prospects report, by 2050 two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in cities. As a result, city infrastructure has to adapt to cope with the rapid increase in population density.

ZTE Corporation, an international provider of telecoms, enterprise and consumer technology internet solutions, has agreed a comprehensive cooperation deal for smart city development with the German towns of Rüsselsheim am Main, Kelsterbach and Raunheim.

Cities today are facing increasing competition both locally and globally to become more intelligent, more integrated and more innovative with the evolution of new “smart” technologies.

F5 Networks has released the results of a new study into the UK’s app-centric society and consumer behaviours. The research reveals over a quarter of Brits (26%) do not check app security measures before downloading them,

The growing popularity of mobile devices with large screens – called phablets – and also small screen wearable devices, such as smartwatches, is making interacting with them with one hand increasingly difficult. This is especially true when trying to input text with one hand.

Over the coming months, Qualcomm Technologies will roll out changes and updates to our product brand positioning to best articulate the value of our technology and products for our customers and their end users.

A new report from Navigant Research examines the current state of global smart city development, covering the related aspects of the smart energy, smart water, smart transportation, smart buildings, and smart governments sectors, segmented by region.

The adoption of LED technology has grown significantly in the last decade, driven by lower prices of lights and potential energy savings. By 2020, it is estimated that 6 out of 10 lightbulbs will be LED.

NEC Corporation has joined the FIWARE Foundation e.V., a non-profit organisation. The foundation promotes the dissemination of FIWARE technology, as a platinum member. NEC is the first and only Japanese company to join the foundation.