Lexmark announces retail innovations and LEAP at NRF 2024

Lexmark is showcasing its retail-ready printers and solutions at NRF 2024, Retail’s Big Show and Expo, Jan. 14 to 16, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. The new Lexmark Engagement Automation Platform (LEAP) transforms customer interactions and drives sales with hyper-localised, automated social media posts.

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Which? highlights smart speakers, security cameras sharing data to social media, marketing firms

Which? research has found that smart home device owners are being asked to provide large amount of data to manufacturers, which could compromise their privacy and potentially result in them handing their personal information to social media and marketing firms. The consumer champion found companies appear to hoover up far more data than is needed

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Onymos expands Features-as-a-Service platform to IoT development

Onymos, a developer of the Features-as-a-Service platform, announced the expansion of their platform to support the creation of Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) ecosystems and applications. Enterprises can access the IoT capabilities through the Onymos Features-as-a-Service platform.

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Winees announces solar-powered security camera to be IoXt-certified

Winees, a smart security brand of AiDot, has announced that its Winees L1 solar-powered security camera, which uses AiDot’s cloud service, is solar-powered security camera to be IoXt-certified. The ioXt is an IoT alliance and cybersecurity certification programme that makes IoT products secure and safe. All Winees consumers can rest assured that their security and

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Energous, ams OSRAM collaborate to develop agricultural sensor applications

Energous Corporation, a developer of RF-based charging for wireless power networks, and ams OSRAM, a global provider of optical solutions have announced a collaboration on a wirelessly powered multi-spectral light sensor for Controlled-Environment Agriculture (CEA) and vertical farming. The joint solution is based on the multi-channel AS7343 spectral sensor from ams OSRAM and the WattUp PowerBridge

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The metaverse: A direction of travel rather than a destination?

The metaverse can perhaps best be described as a direction of travel, says Tran Hoang Giang, founding member of FPT Software akaChain, and founder and CEO of Aura Network. It’s a journey several major players in the software field have embarked upon and are in the process of investing very substantial sums of money in

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What’s coming to Industry 4.0?

Janus, the Roman god of new beginnings, is represented by a double-faced head, one facing the past and the other facing the future. Taking inspiration from this, manufacturers looking to accelerate their digital transformation should consider the impact of the past. So, what technology should manufacturers be looking to adopt? Here, Johan Jonzon, co-founder and

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to unveil new AI technologies, products in GTC Keynote

NVIDIA announced that it will host a global, virtual GTC from Nov. 8-11, featuring a news-filled keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and talks from some of the world’s preeminent AI research and industry leaders.

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New branches for the 2Africa subsea cable system

The 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, announced the addition of four new branches to the 2Africa cable.

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Data from IoT devices will breed next Uber or Netflix, says Eseye

What organisations can do with data is set to dramatically shift in 2021 and beyond, according to Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity provider Eseye, as more IoT devices are deployed and the data they generate dwarfs that collected through traditional online channels.

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Loon is popped by sharp truths: Balloons won’t be ‘Connecting people everywhere’

(A Week in IoT) – When the news came on Friday that Loon’s journey is coming to an end it was a disappointment if, like me, you’re an admirer of flights of scientific and engineering ambition that combine business opportunity and social benefit. To be fair though, the news did not come as a shock, says

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Sim Local launches ‘UNITE’ eSIM platform for mobile operators

This month, Sim Local has officially launched its ‘UNITE’ eSIM platform. It aims to provide all the core capability a mobile operator needs to offer eSIM services to their customers.

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Attacks on smart supply chains and medical tech lead cyber security threats

TÜV Rheinland has released its seventh annual report on Cybersecurity Trends for 2020. In it, the Cologne, Germany-based provider of international testing, inspection and certification services, identifies attacks on smart supply chains, threats to medical equipment and weaknesses in real-time operating systems.

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Cisco’s ambitious plan for new silicon architecture unveiled as it aims to build ‘Internet for the Future’

Cisco has unveiled further details behind its technology strategy for building a new internet — one designed to push digital innovation beyond the performance, economic and power consumption limitations of current infrastructure.

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Jerusalem building one of the largest smart city networks using ‘Gigabit Wireless Access’ equipment

Siklu, a global provider of Fixed 5G millimetre wave (mmWave) technology for Gigabit Wireless Access, Smart City and security networks announced at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona

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IoT and analytics – An unlikely love story

By now, everyone’s heard of the IoT, or the Internet of Things, whether through fear-mongering articles on the internet about how toasters are going to spy on you or through advertisements on TV for ‘smarter homes’ which will, seemingly, be completely integrated with you and your lifestyle (and your cat’s, if some adverts are to

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