Nokia has signed a contract with telecommunications service provider Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) to provide IoT coverage to enterprises in Indonesia, the Finnish vendor said in a release. Nokia said that 3ID will utilize its fully virtualized Nokia Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) managed service offer, so that the service provider and its Indonesian enterprise…
Korean telecommunications company KT announced plans to invest 300 billion won ($257 million) over the next four years to become an artificial intelligence (AI) company, Korean press reported. The Korean telco also said it aims to hire nearly 1,000 specialists in the AI field with the aim of creating new value propositions in line with the…
Nokia is to equip a major state-run industrial training facility in Brazil with 5G and AI to accelerate Industry 4.0 skills, trials, and deployments in the region. The Finnish vendor will deploy connectivity and analytics solutions at the country’s National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI-SP) in São Caetano do Sul, in São Paulo state, a…
Spanish IoT hardware maker Libelium has announced a new strategy to expand its offer to include integrated hardware, software and systems. The company said at IoT Solutions World Congress 2019 in Barcelona it is moving into consultancy mode in order to capture more complex IoT business, having served the burgeoning IoT market with keenly sourced…
IoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar — with a number of the European telecoms giants, big cloud brands, and systems integrators scattered among a hard core of IoT firms, which also make a…
Vodafone Business, the enterprise unit of UK telecommunications group Vodafone, has signed an Internet of Things (IoT) partnership with Latin American telecom carrier America Movil, the former said in a release. Under the terms of the global IoT agreement, IoT customers of both companies will be able to deploy international IoT solutions by combining their…
South Korean car brand Hyundai has partnered with Silicon Valley AI firm Pony and New York City based ride-sharing company Via to launch a shared, on-demand, autonomous vehicle service on public roads in California. The pilot service, branded BotRide, launches next week (November 4) for a few hundred residents in Irvine, California. It uses a…
What is smart infrastructure? It sounds like a silly question, almost. But the rise of new digital technologies — spearheaded by IoT, AI, and 5G, as the tools of digital change — has shifted the meaning, from telecoms poles and server racks, to physical structures and systems that prop up society, such as road furniture…
Microsoft has added a rush of new capabilities variously to its IoT development platform and its IoT cloud platform to simplify and scale IoT deployments. It has added a number of features to its IoT Central app development platform. The platform is designed to make the design, build, and deployment of IoT apps simpler; it…
Deutsche Telekom has launched a blockchain marketplace for German enterprises. The new German blockchain ecosystem (GBE) will enable customers to “map” different applications using blockchain. The service, from Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, will allow businesses to map a product’s entire supply chain in a distributed ledger system, from raw materials to delivery. Businesses will be…
