BMW to locate its research team to IBM’s Munich Watson IoT HQ

IBM has announced a new collaboration with the BMW Group, through which the companies will work together to explore the role of Watson cognitive computing in personalising the driving experience and creating more intuitive driver support systems for cars of the future.

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IBM joins Zero Outage Industry Standard association on ‘long journey towards stable telecoms, IT and IoT’

The Zero Outage Industry Standard association reports that IBM has joined the association as a founding member. The aim is to provide a common framework for IT quality with a focus on platforms, people, processes and security.

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There’s a battle in the enterprise for ownership of ‘chaotic’ IoT, says Gartner

At the recent M2M Summit 2016 in Dusseldorf, Germany, Gartner‘s Research VP, Eric F. Goodness was blunt about the challenges facing the Internet of Things (IoT). These, he said, included a battle for IoT ‘ownership’, a bottleneck of problems facing anyone trying to prove the value of their IoT initiative, and a market characterised by

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Finland’s Walkbase taps mobile proximity executive Kevin Hunter to lead U.S. expansion

Walkbase, a venue IoT analytics and marketing platform company, has announced its expansion into the U.S. market, appointing Kevin Hunter as its president of the Americas.

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Ubuntu offers new foundation for IoT to meet industry need for updates, operations and security

Canonical has released Ubuntu Core 16 for the Internet of Things (IoT), with regular and reliable security updates, and app stores for intelligent connected devices.

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Advantech partners with Intel, Microsoft, ARM and IBM to process IoT solutions from device to cloud

Advantech, has announced at its Embedded IoT Partner Summit that it is collaborating with Intel®, Microsoft, ARM, and IBM to create Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that cover the span from device to cloud services.

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Red Bull gives a car wings but IBM senses the air currents

Wouldn’t it be great if they changed the way Formula 1 is covered on TV, so there was more emphasis on all the drama going on behind the scenes. Surely there’s some extra digital channel capacity to screen those battles for people who enjoy watching team games.

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Open collaboration will help bring about a single 5G standard, says Huawei’s Ding

At the FT-ETNO Summit held in Brussels, Huawei executive director and Products & Solutions president Ryan Ding said, “5G will be one of the cornerstones of industry digitalisation. A single global standard is vital.”

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Greenwave Systems acquires Predixion Software to enhance its AXON Platform

IoT and M2M platform provider, Greenwave Systems has acquired Predixion Software, a developer of real-time visual edge analytics software for the Internet of Things, for an undisclosed amount.

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Ericsson predicts the effects of 5G on the IoT

I remember being told, by a football coach, that there was one player nobody expected to make it as a professional, writes Nick Booth. But not only did that gangly, one-footed hoofer prove them wrong, he went on to become a successful club manager.

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Systems Integrators are pivotal to success of US enterprise IoT deployments

The commercial potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) is impossible to accurately quantify. It has broad implications for any industry with merely the slightest reliance on technology.

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Syncsort acquires Cogito to enhance database management systems

Syncsort, a global leader in Big Data and mainframe software, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cogito Ltd.,

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IoT platform revenues will grow to €3bn worldwide by 2021, says Berg Insight

According to a new research report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the global third party Internet of Things (IoT) platform market increased 36% to € 610 million in 2015.

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Creating new relationships, Part 2: Through connected technologies, data and you

In the near future, technology – specifically, technologies wrapped up as the Internet of Things (IoT) – will allow companies to give products their own voices and stories. This will give the products a perceived sense of agency, encouraging consumers to develop relationships with the items.

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Creating new relationships with the Things we buy – Part 2: The desirability of connected products

In the near future, technology – specifically, technologies wrapped up as the Internet of Things (IoT) – will allow companies to give products their own voices and stories. This will give the products a perceived sense of agency, encouraging consumers to develop relationships with the items.

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How the Cloud Makes the IoT Manageable

Security and Privacy Big cloud service providers are already thinking about how to bring the Internet of Things together on an enterprise scale. IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, and Samsung (they’re obsessed with the IoT) have all developed platforms to help businesses manage their Things.

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