Verizon 5G ultra wideband now lit up at the Oracle Industry Lab

Deerfield, Ill. & New York, NY., USA. 26 April 26, 2022 – Verizon and Oracle are teaming to explore how Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband can transform industries including utilities, manufacturing, communications, and construction and engineering.

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Oracle delivers extreme database performance and scale with Exadata cloud infrastructure X9M

Austin, Texas – Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M, the latest generation of the most powerful Oracle Database platform in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). With Oracle Autonomous Database Service or Oracle Exadata Database Service running on Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M, customers can run existing workloads faster, with greater scale, and at a

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IBM and Red Hat to help modernise U.S. department of education’s G5 grants management system

Washington and Armonk, N.Y. and Raleigh, N.C – IBM and Red Hat, Inc. announced the companies are part of a five-year collaboration to modernise the U.S. Department of Education’s G5 grants management system with open hybrid cloud technologies.

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Accenture acquires Ergo to expand data & AI capabilities and accelerate data-led transformation on the cloud

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina –  Accenture has acquired Ergo, a data-centred business located in Argentina that helps companies create a culture of data-driven decision-making using big data, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Ergo’s team of 200 data specialists will join the Data & AI team within Accenture Cloud First. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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‘Open-source Wi-Fi mesh’ solution adds features and quickens time to market for ISPs

Framingham, Mass., USA. 25 April 2022 – Internet Service Providers (ISP) will be able to deploy fully open-source Wi-Fi mesh networks, including standardised application programming interface (API)s enabling new services and features more quickly and with better interoperability than previously possible. The prpl Foundation and its service providers have announced a major acceleration of its

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Can IoT mitigate the impact of the fuel crisis on everyday consumer food items?

From long queues outside petrol stations to staggering energy bills, the consumers have been subjected to a raft of price rises as the cost of fuel continues to climb amid the war in Ukraine. As well as increasing energy bills, the spike in fuel prices has driven up the cost of everyday food items, further

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Arm expands IoT Total Solutions to deliver enhanced performance, security and machine learning

Cambridge, UK. 26 April 2022 – Arm is delivering on its Total Solutions for IoT roadmap, with two new solutions for Arm® Cortex®-M and Cortex-A processors, streamlining and accelerating the IoT and embedded development process. As part of the expanded roadmap, Arm is launching the Arm Cortex-M85 processor, said to be the highest-performing and most

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Ericsson report addresses transport and logistics disruptions with ZF and Orange Belgium

Ericsson released a new Connected Truck Transport report in partnership with ZF, Orange Belgium, and Arthur D. Little. The report analyses the power of IoT connectivity to mitigate the complexities brought on by disruptions in the logistics supply chain, including soaring fuel prices, driver shortages, and governmental regulations.

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Cellular IoT MVNOs to manage 670mn connections by 2026

London, UK. 26 April 2022 – Kaleido Intelligence, a connectivity market intelligence and consulting firm, has found that cellular IoT connections managed by MVNOs will reach 670 million in 2026, growing at a CAGR of 24% between 2022 and 2026. Notably, with many IoT MVNOs now specialising in eSIM solutions, Kaleido predicts that eSIM connection growth

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Installed base of fleet management systems in South Africa to reach 3.6mn units by 2026

Gothenburg, Sweden. 25 April 2022: According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in South Africa reached an estimated 2.0 million in Q4-2021. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6%, this number is expected to

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After the Sigfox rescue, how do you make IoT work?

Global Internet of Things (IoT) services firm Sigfox has just been rescued from bankruptcy. Business technology journalist, Antony Savvas considers a strategy for making IoT providers more successful going forward.

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Wiremind’s dedicated air cargo business unit has now become an official subsidiary: Wiremind Cargo

In November 2021, Wiremind launched Wiremind Cargo, a dedicated air cargo business unit, headed by CEO, Nathanaël de Tarade, and CTO, Etienne Corbillé. Created in 2014, Wiremind is a French company providing revenue optimisation and inventory management software solutions for the transport, logistics and events sectors.

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Web threats increase by over 130% at the end of 2021

21 April, 2022 – Web threats affect everyone and every device that is connected to the internet. Web threats enter users’ networks without their awareness and can be activated by opening a spam email or clicking on an executable file attachment. Once they have compromised a system, web threats can travel through the network to

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Accora targets road safety with Ctrack’s advanced fleet and AI video telematics solution

Accora, the medical seating and bed manufacturer, has teamed up with Ctrack by Inseego to upgrade its fleet telematics with integrated AI dashcams and advanced driver behaviour monitoring. The company is rolling-out the solution across its fleet of vans, operated nationwide by its team of product specialists and engineers, to improve road safety and meet

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Kerlink participates in pre-sale initial coin offering

Thorigne-Fouillard, France. 21 April 2022 – Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), announced its participation in a pre-sale of Kalima tokens, called KLX, issued through the Initial Coin Offering (pre-ICO) of Kalima, a French specialist in blockchain specifically designed for smart contracts to support industrial processes and operations, such

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Urban Control and Nordic Semi develop plug-and-play IoT LED streetlight controller to make cities instantly smart

London, UK. 21 April 2022 – Urban Control, the smart city solutions provider, announced that working together with Nordic Semiconductor it has developed a plug-and-play IoT LED streetlight luminaire controller that is quick to install and can scale-up to millions of lights.

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