Nokia and Safaricom have trialled Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network slicing on a live 4G and 5G network in Africa. Network slicing enables operators to divide their networks into multiple virtual slices that can be optimised for a specific application or service. Each slice can be given its own priority in addition to different levels…
The Internet of Things (IoT) has found many innovative use cases over the past decade, particularly in industrial settings. Fields as diverse as manufacturing, transport and logistics, and energy and natural resources – amongst others – have all benefitted from IoT deployments. However, no IoT application, no matter how sophisticated, can deliver value without one…
The best iPad cases keep your iPad safe from damage, adding a little bit of style to your tablet. And while anything beyond that is just icing on the cake, many of the cases we think are tops have landed on this list by going above and beyond the call of duty. The 10.2-inch iPad…
Meta has confirmed it is testing a BeReal clone for Instagram, called IG Candid. In case you’re unfamiliar with BeReal, it’s a relatively new app that sends you a notification at a random time once a day to take a simultaneous selfie and rear-facing photo showing what you’re doing within two minutes. Going by what…
The best iPad cases keep your iPad safe from damage, adding a little bit of style to your tablet. And while anything beyond that is just icing on the cake, many of the cases we think are tops have landed on this list by going above and beyond the call of duty. The 10.2-inch iPad…
During his 20-year tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant was one of the most polarizing people in professional sports. But whether you loved him or hated him, you could not deny Bryant’s success at the highest level of basketball. In addition to his NBA MVP award and five NBA championships, Bryant helped lead…
At the beginning of this month a rumor surfaced claiming that, for the first time ever, Apple would decouple an iPadOS release from an iOS release this year, outing iPadOS 16 about a month after iOS 16. Today Apple itself has confirmed just that. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, the company said this: This…
Feit Electric has swooped in to quite literally keep the lights on at LIFX. Buddy Technologies, the parent company of smart lighting firm LIFX, went into administration earlier this year. Good samaritans quickly got to work writing guides for LIFX customers on how to locally control their lights if the firm’s servers are switched off.…
His hedge fund investors didn’t want to listen to him when, in 1999, Julian Robertson questioned the sanity of the prices being paid for shares in nascent internet companies. So months after being berated for 15 minutes at an annual shareholders meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York in October 1999, he began the…
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