Google loves to talk about how it has seven products with more than a billion users. Those are its flagship search service, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, YouTube, Android and the Google Play Store. Indeed, Android actually has more than 2 billion users now. Later this week, we will be able to add an eighth service…
Picture three American muscle cars parked in the enterprise driveway. One, the largest vehicle, carries the badge ‘AWS’, the second ‘Microsoft Azure’, and the third ‘Google’. But closer inspection of the third car reveals a shiny new badge that says ‘Google Cloud Services Platform’. These are the three leading options for organisations that want to…
SpotAngels, an app that uses crowdsourced data to help drivers find parking and avoid tickets, has raised $2.3 million from a group of investors that includes Google Maps co-founder Lars Rasmussen. Luc Vincent, the former head of Google Street View and vice president of engineering at Lyft, as well as Y Combinator, Streamlined Ventures and Via ID…
Most manufacturers believe they are leading their markets in Industry 4.0 technologies – despite evidence to the contrary, according to a new report from McKinsey & Co. The consultancy has identified a huge gap between the many companies that are exploring digital manufacturing strategies – via technologies such as automation, robotics, AI, and the Internet…
Cloud Functions, Google’s serverless platform that competes directly with tools like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions from Microsoft, is now generally available, the company announced at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today. Google first announced Cloud Functions back in 2016, so this has been a long beta. Overall, it also always seemed as…
Internet of Business says The UK government has announced plans to make full-fibre broadband mandatory for all new-build homes, along with a new commitment to connect rural areas as part of a new national telecoms strategy. The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR), which is part of the government’s revamped Industrial Strategy, sets out the changes that…
Netgear home security spin-off Arlo just added another key hardware piece to its growing portfolio of connected devices. The Arlo Audio Doorbell is a kind of Ring/Nest (to which it bears a pretty striking resemblance) competitor that sends calls to the homeowner’s smartphone every time someone buzzes the door. Visitors can either talk to the…
A new expert report on AI sentiment among the public finds that the industry has a lot of work to do to explain the technology’s benefits – not with marketing hype, but with real-world examples and proof. Chris Middleton reports. Consumers lack understanding about artificial intelligence (AI) and are looking to businesses, government, and academia…
It’s one thing to run machine learning models in the cloud, where you have plenty of resources. On mobile devices, you’re dealing with very finite compute resources, so if you want to run your models directly on the devices, they have to be highly optimized. Add to that that Apple and Google are taking somewhat…
There are two engineering challenges – one electrical, one social – facing power companies if they want the public to change their energy consumption habits. The latter might be the harder business nut to crack, reports Nick Booth, but two IoT startups are here to help. In the near future, Britain’s businesses will face a…
