iBASIS acquires Simfony to bring eSIM management to global IoT roaming offer

Boston-headquartered carrier services company iBASIS has acquired Dutch IoT platform provider and mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) Simfony for an undisclosed fee. The deal was completed via iBASIS’s highly acquisitive parent company, France-based Tofane Global. The cloud-based Simfony IoT platform, available on subscription (“as-a-service”), promises “rapid time-to-market and elasticity for an unlimited number of connected…

Seeing the Future Differently with AR and VR

Immersive, mixed-reality experiences and the metaverse will change life, work, and everything else. Last year, Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook’s next move—its evolution to Meta, a social technology company. Meta describes the metaverse, an immersive VR (virtual reality)-enabled space that allows users to interact with a computer-generated environment, as “the next evolution of social connection.” Could…