GlobalData Technology
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1 Jun
Dubai’s civil defence is embracing nanotechnology and using smart apps to fight fires
The Dubai Civil Defence (DCD), an emergency management organisation of Dubai, has completed the testing for using nanotech in fire suppression operations and has also launched new smart applications.
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31 May
Mobile phones on the tube: who’s really going to benefit?
Londoners will have mixed views tube passengers being able to use mobile phones on the tube.
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30 May
British Airways or Indian outsourcer? Who’s to blame for 300,000 stranded passengers
On Saturday morning, a power surge knocked British Airways’ data centre offline.
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25 May
The race to 5G is accelerating but was Verizon’s $3bn Straight Path acquisition worth it?
Straight Path Communications has been acquired by Verizon for $3.1bn because Straight Path holds millimetre wave spectrum licenses that have been approved by the FCC to be used for 5G.
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24 May
4G is soon going to be the fastest-growing mobile generation in Botswana
In Botswana 4G subscriptions will soon be the fastest growing mobile generation in the country.
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23 May
Africa online: Tunisian broadband penetration is going to grow 40 percent by 2021
Tunisia’s telecom services market is smaller than most of its peer countries, however, over the next five years the number of people with a broadband connection is going to grow from 4.8 percent in 2016 to 6.7 percent by 2021.
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19 May
T-Mobile is still making customers’ pain into its gain
The latest challenge from the US so-called un-carrier is around bundled device protection to build customer loyalty.
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18 May
Smart lighting projects are a growing priority among smart city initiatives in Latin America
Despite smart cities being still in an early stage of development, there have been big investments in Latin America.
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18 May
Video is going to push mobile data traffic up by four-fold in France by 2021
Total mobile data traffic in France will advance due to the increase in data-intensive applications, such as video, web browsing, social networking and M2M, among others.
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15 May
Too many cyber security developers are masquerading as platform vendors
In enterprise cyber security, every vendor yearns to be a so-called platform vendor – one that sells all the software an organisation needs.
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15 May
Mobile data is going to give the DRC’s telecom market a huge boost
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s telecom market has been hit by many problems.
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10 May
The energy industry is terrible at technology and challengers are taking advantage
Incumbent utilities have been generally slow to react to the many challenges facing the industry, ranging from the drive to decarbonise the sector, to volatile wholesale prices and deep consumer dissatisfaction.
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9 May
Oman’s got a plan to get people online
Broadband lines in Oman will grow from six percent penetration of the population in 2016 to 10.4 percent 2021.
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9 May
Has 5G become a marketing term for telcos?
Over the past 20 years, mobile operators have been prone to over hyping network performance and turning technological advancements into marketing-speak.
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9 May
Companies don’t need to wait for 5G to get 5G-like services
5G mobile service has long been hyped as enabling new enterprise services.
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8 May
The detail devils of the Internet of Things: a lesson from John Deere
As software takes over the Internet of Things (IoT), users can no longer blithely sign unchecked licence agreements, unless they want to hand the keys to their kingdoms to third parties.
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8 May
Security issues are driving demand for smart car apps in Latin America
The connected car market — that is, cars that are connected to the internet — reached 9m live apps in Latin America in 2016, an increase of 18.4 percent from the year before.
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4 May
Orange is the new bank — but why would a telco want to be a bank?
The French incumbent telco Orange is set to offer a suite of familiar banking services in a mobile-first fashion.
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4 May
AT&T and Verizon are eying up microwave spectrum licenses that 5G just might finally turn into a gold mine
The latest US spectrum auction wound down in April, raising $19.8bn — less than half of what the US government expected — for 70 MHz of spectrum.
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27 Apr
Is Facebook’s M getting ideas above its station?
Facebook is turning the humble chatbot into a global business platform featuring an always-on, super-helpful, and chattily suggestive new digital personal assistant.
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27 Apr
Walmart has its sights set on Amazon with its e-commerce shopping spree
Walmart, the world’s largest brick and mortar store, is buying up e-commerce companies to compete with major rival, Amazon.
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26 Apr
In just over two years there will be more than 100m mobile phone subscriptions in the UK
We’ve all already got phone subscriptions but we’re going to get more anyway.
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25 Apr
Smartphone sales growth is sharply slowing in Europe
Smartphone sales are slowing around the world and Europe is no exception.
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24 Apr
A house divided: executives and their IT staff don’t see eye to eye on cyber security
When it comes to corporate cyber security all stakeholders agree on one thing: data reigns supreme.
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24 Apr
Data services will soon generate more revenue than voice in Ghana
More and more people are using their devices to access the internet rather than make traditional phone calls, and Ghana is no exception.
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21 Apr
Cisco is its own worst enemy in enterprise security
There’s no doubt that security remains one of the biggest strategic and tactical concerns for every enterprise.
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13 Apr
4G in Nigeria is about to explode
Nigeria is going to see some explosive growth in 4G mobile subscriptions in coming years.
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13 Apr
Hackers in the cookers: consumer companies are great at innovation but terrible with technology
Highly-desired Aga cookers have joined the growing list of products that can be classed as cyber security risks.
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10 Apr
Why aren’t there more Internet of Things horses in the Grand National?
Blaklion came fourth in Saturday’s Grand National and relatively uniquely had Internet of Things (IoT) technologies central to its training regime.
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10 Apr
AT&T won a contract for a US first responder network, but even exclusive 25-year deals still come with risk
AT&T’s bid to build a nationwide, US public safety network – FirstNet – can finally move forward.