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28 Sep
How key health features can boost the new smartwatches from Apple
The smartwatch has found its place in this world by primarily focusing on health and fitness, and Apple has led the way.
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28 Sep
Private wireless networks can disrupt the status quo
There has been a small but meaningful trickle of news on private wireless (cellular) network deployments over the last couple of years.
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28 Sep
How Covid-19 has slowed down 5G standards development
The body responsible for developing the standards governing 5G technology has signaled that its inability to meet in person is causing a slowdown in developing new technical standards.
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25 Sep
Amazon enters gaming market with cloud subscription service
Seattle-based giant Amazon is late to join the cloud gaming market after Google service is up and running, and Microsoft Xbox cloud service is already available in Beta version.
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25 Sep
Oracle blurs lightweight scenario planning with conventional planning
Conventional planners make a prediction and base a plan it, but scenario planners make no predictions.
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25 Sep
Facebook’s vow to pull out of Europe reflects EU-US data transfer divide
Facebook has warned that it may pull out of Europe following a preliminary order from the Irish data watchdog to ban the sharing of European citizens’ data with the US.
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21 Sep
Carbon neutral plans are well timed by AT&T
AT&T is the latest network operator to announce definitive carbon neutrality plans, indicating in September that it will be carbon-neutral by 2035.
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21 Sep
AWS continues the fight to win back JEDI award
The JEDI wars continue on terra firma. Amazon didn’t waste any time to raise its continued objections after the US Department of Defense (DOD) disclosed it was once again awarding the highly sought after multi-billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) to Microsoft.
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18 Sep
GAIA-X project seeks to provide native European cloud
The economic and finance ministers of France and Germany have announced a new project - GAIA-X - designed to create a European alternative to the global hyperscale public cloud platforms.
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18 Sep
How Teradata is trying to shed its staid image
Teradata has been humming along for so long and so quietly that it has acquired a musty stereotype — propagated even by some people who should know better.
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17 Sep
Toucan’s simplicity and message-first approach tries to win over data-phobic business people
A data tool's story-first approach may succeed in winning over the vast numbers of business users who never use data.
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15 Sep
How Mayflower can encourage the development of autonomous ships
On 16th September, the UK’s first robotic ship, named the Mayflower Autonomous Ship, will embark on a transatlantic voyage from Plymouth in England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, retracing the route of the original Mayflower on the 400th anniversary of its crossing.
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14 Sep
Health-tech market continues to draw Big Tech interest
Health-tech startups will need to watch their backs as the threat of new and aggressive competition looms.
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14 Sep
Digital technology implementation crucial for small business survival
Small businesses are relying heavily on digital technologies to help them through, and out of, the current pandemic, according to a survey published in September.
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11 Sep
How Covid-19 hit cigarette and tobacco sales
Had Covid-19 never happened, global filter cigarette sales in 2020, by value, could be expected to be 8% higher than they will be, a difference of US$56bn to the industry, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData.
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4 Sep
Tableau absorption by Salesforce may mark the end of an era
Last year’s acquisition of Tableau by Salesforce was a milestone for the end of an era and the inception of a new one, which will make data analysts of many who had never thought to try it.
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4 Sep
It’s Showtime! Apple TV+ reveals new bundle
As of mid-August, Apple TV+ subscribers in the United States could add a greatly discounted $9.99/month bundle that combines the commercial-free version of CBS All Access and Showtime, both owned by ViacomCBS. Showtime alone normally costs $10.99/month while the ad-free version of CBS All Access costs $9.99 a month.
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1 Sep
How Kacific aims to bring reliable broadband to the Indo-Pacific
Christain Patouraux founded Kacific Broadband Satellites in 2013.
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1 Sep
Why 5G could force Apple to rethink its App Store strategy
Apple is making waves in the new trend of cloud gaming.
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28 Aug
Twitter round-up: John Carmack’s tweet on GPT-3 AI language most popular tweet in July 2020
Verdict lists ten of the most popular tweets on AI in July 2020, based on data from GlobalData’s Influencer Platform.
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28 Aug
Mobile advertising revenue will be accelerated by 5G
With the rapid proliferation of mobile connectivity over the last several years, mobile advertising has become the largest digital advertising segment, accounting for nearly three quarters of the total global digital advertising revenue in 2020.
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28 Aug
France telecom and pay-TV to show investment driven growth
Total telecom and pay-TV service revenues in France reached US$38.3 billion in 2019.
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28 Aug
Brazil broadband expansion will be driven by rising demand
Fixed broadband lines in Brazil will increase from 33.2 million in 2019 to 40.8 million by 2024, supported by robust growth in FTTH subscriptions driven by rising demand for high-speed data services and government efforts to expand fixed broadband connectivity to the remote areas of the country.
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28 Aug
Halo band brings Amazon into the wellness market
On 27 August 27, 2020 Amazon launched its wellness band and app subscription which is named Halo.
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28 Aug
Altran advances edge strategy with increased app developer focus
Some companies – including engineering consulting firm Altran, part of France’s Capgemini Group – are differentiating their edge computing technologies with infrastructure offerings that address the specific needs of application developers.
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28 Aug
Why cloud computing isn’t the answer to all business problems
The Covid-19 pandemic has driven the rhetoric around cloud computing into overdrive.
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28 Aug
Smartphone sales showing signs of recovery
Europe and North America saw an overall decline in smartphone sales in Q2 2020 as stores remain closed and recovery was slow.
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27 Aug
DISH expansion raises business model questions
US satellite pay-TV provider DISH entered the wireless segment on 1 July after paying $1.4 billion to acquire prepaid brand Boost Mobile and its nearly 9 million customers from T-Mobile.
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26 Aug
Why OSS technologies are a hot topic in the time of Covid-19
The growing interest in the KubeCon conference is not only a reflection of the importance of the industry’s leading container orchestration technology, Kubernetes, but also represents the need to stay abreast of leading open source software (OSS) technologies by global IT teams implementing app modernization projects, many of which have received executive directives to embrace [...]
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25 Aug
How ESports Nutritional invites gamers to get ‘REKT’
Covid-19 has forced consumers to stay home just as esports continue their ascent and growth, making gamers a potentially lucrative target.