Blogs

The financial services community just got serious about identity

I find myself sitting in Schiphol Airport, trying to switch off. But I can’t, says Lina Andolf-Orup of Fingerprints. As with everyone that went to Money 20/20 Europe, I’m exhausted. But I leave the show excited by the progress the payments community has made in the last year, (more…)

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June 14, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Arm expands IoT connectivity and device management capabilities with acquisition of Stream Technologies

Arm’s vision of a trillion connected devices by 2035 is driven by many factors, including the opportunity for companies to derive real business value from IoT data. The benefits of leveraging this data are often obvious, says Hima Mukkamala, senior vice president and general manager, IoT Cloud Services, Arm: greater efficiencies, (more…)

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June 13, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Bridge the IT skills gap, Hal

Artificial intelligence (AI) hasn’t always had favourable representation in pop culture. In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), homicidal supercomputer Hal demonstrated how AI could surpass the intelligence of a human — and for humans, the results weren’t so great. (more…)

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June 8, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Cool IoT Use Cases: Making high-volume organic farming more efficient

Market overview

Trans icons ind.qxp_Layout 1In drought-ridden California farmers face constant pressure to be more efficient in their water use. Agriculture is key to the state’s economy; it employs about 3% of the workforce and accounts for about 2% of the GDP, says Bob Emmerson. (more…)

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June 5, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Candour and can-do attitudes both on show as network operators discuss the tough task of going digital

Digital Transformation World, organised in France by TM Forum earlier this month (May 14-16) included a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of several telecom network operators that are tackling the task of becoming digital operators. Jeremy Cowan pulled rank to report from Nice. (more…)

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May 30, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

LTE: A prescient acronym

Data rates used to be a convenient way of measuring the evolution of cellular wireless and while LTE (aka 4G) can be seen as a high-speed / low-latency service, which it is, what really distinguishes this Long Term Evolutionary (LTE) development from earlier networks is its prescient combination of efficiency and flexibility. (more…)

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Posted by: IoT global network

Fraud Wars: How can biometrics help win the card fraud battle?

Fighting fraudsters is a complex and ever-evolving challenge. As consumers change the way they pay, fraudsters change the way they steal. For banks to keep up, these new battles require new tactics to minimise losses and reassure consumers. (more…)

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May 25, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

AI will change everything, but only if we change too

The way we work has always been dictated by the technology available to us. As technology improves, says Charles Towers-Clark, CEO of Pod Group, the workforce adapts to match the new standard of efficiency, and a whole range of jobs is created based on newly created skills. (more…)

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May 22, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Cool IoT Use Cases: Smart parking relieves traffic congestion

Market overview

Facilitating parking in city centres is good for the local economy. If the political will is there it’s relatively easy to deploy smart parking systems and many authorities see them as the logical first step of large smart city projects. (more…)

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May 11, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

OK, it’s ‘secure’ and ‘immersive’ but what will 5G actually do?

At MWC 18 in March you couldn’t move for proclamations of the benefits of 5G. It’s ‘seamless’, ‘inclusive’, ‘immersive’ and ‘secure’, to name a few. (more…)

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April 27, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde