IT/OT ‘heavyweights’ Microsoft and Siemens join Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

IoT Building News

Microsoft and Siemens have signed up to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, a two-year old consortium of “European” industrial companies geared to drive cross-vendor interoperability for factories and warehouses. They join as “heavyweights” of the IT and OT sides of the conjoined industrial IoT landscape, respectively, the alliance said. The alliance, formed at Hannover Messe…

Telcos of the future: Six business models for the next era

Telecom News

For people around the world, telecommunications services have become even more critical to everyday life since the outbreak of Covid-19. Communication networks have allowed many people to work from home and maintain social connection amid lockdowns and physical distancing. Healthcare and retail services have increasingly shifted online. Telcos have helped governments monitor and fight the…

Telcos of the future: Six business models for the next era

Telecom innovations

For people around the world, telecommunications services have become even more critical to everyday life since the outbreak of Covid-19. Communication networks have allowed many people to work from home and maintain social connection amid lockdowns and physical distancing. Healthcare and retail services have increasingly shifted online. Telcos have helped governments monitor and fight the…

Telcos of the future: Six business models for the next era

Industry News

For people around the world, telecommunications services have become even more critical to everyday life since the outbreak of Covid-19. Communication networks have allowed many people to work from home and maintain social connection amid lockdowns and physical distancing. Healthcare and retail services have increasingly shifted online. Telcos have helped governments monitor and fight the…

A Look at the Future of Work

Internet of Things

Alphabet and Google are placing their chips on at least some working in person come this September, as Twitter and Facebook are waging working remotely will be permeant. Where would you put your bet? I have some thoughts. Research from SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management) shows at least 27% of organizations plan to bring…

Our Nearest Neighboring Star Emits Record-Breaking Stellar Flare

Drones

Artist’s conception of the violent stellar flare from Proxima Centauri discovered by scientists in 2019 using nine telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Powerful flares eject from Proxima Centauri with regularity, impacting the star’s planets almost daily. S. Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF A team of astronomers has observed the largest ever…