Jeff Bezos invests in Indonesian e-commerce Ula – TechCrunch

Drones

Indonesian e-commerce startup Ula, which has raised over $30 million and courted many high-profile investors since launching last year, has now won the trust of the world’s richest person. The founder of Amazon has invested in the one-and-a-half-year-old startup’s new financing round, sources and many others familiar with the matter told me. The Jakarta-headquartered firm…

Airspan and Druid, joined at hip, to supply private 5G system for German SI Opticoms

IoT Building News

Private networking duo Airspan Networks and Druid Software, providing cellular radio access (RAN) and core network solutions, find themselves together again in Germany, this time with Munich-based system integrator (SI) Opticoms at its new 5G co-creation lab in the Bavarian capital. Opticoms is betting on high demand for private 5G systems in Germany, quoting research…

Jeff Bezos in talks to back Indonesian e-commerce Ula – TechCrunch

Cyber Attacks

One-a-half-year-old Indonesian e-commerce startup Ula, which has raised over $30 million and courted many high-profile investors, is inching closer to adding one of the biggest tech profiles to its captable. The Jakarta-headquartered startup — which counts B Capital Group, Sequoia Capital India, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Quona Capital among its existing investors — is in…

Vodafone, Nokia, Cisco, and others conduct first multi-vendor test of new broadband standard

Telecom News

Vodafone, Nokia, Cisco, Benu Networks, and Casa Systems have successfully conducted the first multi-vendor test of a new broadband standard. The vendors tested a new open architecture for the Broadband Network Gateway (BNG). BNGs are critical for connecting multiple users to the internet but have historically been locked to a single supplier. Disaggregated BNGs based…

Vodafone, Nokia, Cisco, and others conduct first multi-vendor test of new broadband standard

Telecom innovations

Vodafone, Nokia, Cisco, Benu Networks, and Casa Systems have successfully conducted the first multi-vendor test of a new broadband standard. The vendors tested a new open architecture for the Broadband Network Gateway (BNG). BNGs are critical for connecting multiple users to the internet but have historically been locked to a single supplier. Disaggregated BNGs based…

Vodafone, Nokia, Cisco, and others conduct first multi-vendor test of new broadband standard

Industry News

Vodafone, Nokia, Cisco, Benu Networks, and Casa Systems have successfully conducted the first multi-vendor test of a new broadband standard. The vendors tested a new open architecture for the Broadband Network Gateway (BNG). BNGs are critical for connecting multiple users to the internet but have historically been locked to a single supplier. Disaggregated BNGs based…

Enterprises and the Future of Mobile Devices

Internet of Things

Mobile devices like smartphones are often categorized as consumer devices, and yet they’re really crossover machines that impact the enterprise space and worker productivity in many industries. Smartphone trends, therefore, are worth watching when considering the future of work, since the smart devices and applications that become ubiquitous in the consumer realm become part of…