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25 Jun
Salesforce’s $15.7bn Tableau acquisition heralds new wave of AI and big data M&A
The importance of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data as key themes driving merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has been highlighted by Salesforce’s purchase of data visualisation specialist Tableau for $15.7 billion.
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25 Jun
AT&T and Samsung tie-up promises to bring 5G to manufacturing
At a recent unveiling, AT&T and Samsung, co-developers of the 5G Innovation Zone, were keen to show how high-speed 5G technology can benefit not just consumers but the manufacturing process for businesses.
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24 Jun
Facebook posts could play a role in medical diagnostics
Newly published research shows language in Facebook posts, either applied alone or in conjunction with demographic data, is a highly accurate tool to predict certain health issues including diabetes and mental illness.
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24 Jun
T-Mobile, Sprint close to clinching merger deal but hurdles remain
The US-China trade war and the Trump administration ban on Chinese telecom company and phone maker Huawei may help unlock the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint in the US.
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24 Jun
Will a strong appetite for 5G in South Korea translate to other markets?
Mobile operators preparing to launch 5G services this year have expressed concerns that the value of the high-speed technology to consumers may not be clear or strong enough to justify the expense of its deployment.
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20 Jun
Slack gets to work by bypassing underwriters in direct IPO offering
Rising US tech star Slack has opted to go public in a direct offering on the NYSE that might protect it from the perils of Wall Street.
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20 Jun
Telcos and blockchain are shaking up the remittance market
Across the Asia-Pacific remittances are big business.
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18 Jun
Top semiconductor companies for the industrial internet revealed
The industrial internet, a market General Electric (GE) once predicted would account for $15 trillion of global GDP by 2030, is expected to redefine the way much of the global industrial economy operates.
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18 Jun
NVIDIA is poised to become an edge computing market leader
As 5G becomes a reality – following the launch of 5G mobile networks in the UK, the US and Spain – and as more companies innovate with the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) – an important supplementary technology that is receiving growing attention is edge computing.
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18 Jun
New spectrum auctions will promote 4G LTE network expansion in Colombia
With 60.8 million mobile subscriptions at the end of 2018, Colombia accounted for about 8.5% of total mobile subscriptions in Latin America.
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18 Jun
Early signs are promising but augmented reality still has some way to go
Providers of augmented reality (AR) solutions for businesses, such as PTC, are hoping the technology will take off in a big way – but is businesses taking the bait?
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17 Jun
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14 Jun
Uber and Volvo in pole position for first global roll out of self-driving car
The new model, a variant of the XC90 SUV, will work with an Uber developed autonomous driving system.
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12 Jun
AT&T’s rumoured strategy shift reflects the evolution in streaming services
Rumours circulating about AT&T’s shifting plans for its WarnerMedia streaming service highlight the fact that growing competition and evolving market dynamics in over-the-top video services will force all competitors to be nimble.
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7 Jun
Apple turns heads with $12,000 Mac Pro, but for the wrong reasons
Apple is pushing prices up with its latest release of the Mac Pro desktop, putting it out of reach of core audiences.
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7 Jun
Why entering the blockchain space is so important for Salesforce
Salesforce, a cloud services provider, used last week’s annual developer conference to announce its entrance into the blockchain platforms space, a late entrant to the market from an infrastructure platforms perspective.
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7 Jun
Skype test case signals EU resolve on regulation question
It’s official – again: Across the EU zone, Skype is indeed a communications service provider, and should, therefore, be subject to the same level of regulation as other non-internet based telcos in the area of calling, messaging and other communications service provisions.
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6 Jun
As the US-China trade war heats up, cool heads are needed in the IT sector
Geopolitical events are causing significant consternation across the IT sector, but with some careful planning and burden sharing, weathering the storm may be possible for key industry players.
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5 Jun
As Switzerland and the UK launch 5G, will 5G be more expensive than 4G?
With both Swisscom and Sunrise Switzerland having already launched commercial mobile 5G services in April 2019 and BT UK having done the same at the end of May, the question on everyone’s minds is: will 5G be more expensive than 4G in Europe?
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4 Jun
Companies need to start from premise of ‘zero trust’ in order to improve cybersecurity
Telstra recently published its Telstra Security report 2019 aimed at helping businesses better understand and respond to cybersecurity threats.
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4 Jun
Ethical AI: Salesforce urges developers to adopt values including ‘trust, innovation and equality’
The rush to make AI a self-service endeavour, to make it available to a broad swath of business users, may carry unanticipated legal exposure for companies unprepared to protect AI from human bias.
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4 Jun
How telecoms companies are tackling limited revenue growth from their core business
Increasingly, telecommunications operators are facing pricing pressures resulting in limited revenue growth from fixed and mobile services.
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3 Jun
Reliance Jio’s patented AI technology helps shake up Indian wireless market
In the mega-competitive Indian wireless market, where operators are battling for subscribers amid plummeting data prices, a successful customer retention campaign launched by Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio is winning adherents.
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31 May
Nvidia among semiconductor companies best placed to succeed in $130bn video games market
Back in March, Google said, “The future of gaming is not a box.
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30 May
Industrial automation: Top companies, leading themes and predictions for the future
The world of industrial automation is being driven by improvements in, as well as a reduction in, the cost of connectivity and advances in artificial intelligence (AI).
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29 May
Broadband-based critical communications: The under-used technology which could save lives
For decades various land mobile radio systems have been the centrepiece of the critical communications world.
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24 May
Google’s Nest kerfuffle is a warning to smart home early adopters
Google has apparently capitulated regarding plans that threatened to disrupt many smart home routines set up by owners of Nest home automation and security products.
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24 May
How do you solve a problem like Huawei?
After years of tension, the Huawei problem boiled over this month, and the US-China trade spat looked to have turned into a full-on economic war rather than just a tit-for-tat tariff joust.
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23 May
Research reveals executives are in cyber attackers’ cross hairs
Enterprising cyber attackers driven by a money motive are setting their sights on objects that will deliver the highest returns.
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22 May
Mobile subs in the Americas will grow at 4.1% to 2023
Mobile subscriptions in the Americas will reach 1.5 billion by 2023 from 1.2 billion in 2018, growing at a 4.1% compound annual growth rate over the period.
