Press Releases

Jabra launches Engage – the business headset engineered for ultimate call satisfaction and security

Jabra is launching a new franchise of wireless headsets that sets new standards for call quality, security and the number of staff who can simultaneously use them. Jabra Engage sets out to be the world’s most powerful professional wireless headsets. (more…)

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April 13, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Altnet operators reach nearly one million premises with full superfast fibre

Nearly one million homes and businesses in the UK are now in reach of ultrafast full fibre connectivity provided by alternative network providers (altnets), a new report has revealed. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Hazelcast announces Hazelcast Jet 0.6 – the 3rd generation big data processing engine

Hazelcast, the open source in-memory data management company with tens of thousands of installed clusters and over 46 million server starts per month, announced the 0.6 release of Hazelcast Jet – the ultra fast, application embeddable, stream and batch processing engine. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Origin Protocol and NuCypher bring data privacy to decentralised sharing applications

Origin Protocol, a blockchain startup that is building the infrastructure for a new decentralised sharing economy, has announced they are forming a technology partnership with NuCypher, a company that provides encryption technology to decentralised applications. (more…)

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April 12, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Microsemi reaches key production-qualification milestone for its PolarFire FPGA family

Microsemi Corporation, a provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced its first cost-optimised, low power, mid-range PolarFire(TM) field programmable gate array (FPGA) device is now production-qualified. (more…)

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thyssenkrupp and Microsoft turbo-boost digitalisation of global elevator industry

thyssenkrupp Elevator expects to have about 28,000 additional elevators connected to its cloud-based predictive maintenance solution MAX in Brazil, as the region joins the global MAX network. The network now covers markets that account for approximately 30% of all elevators worldwide. (more…)

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Mixed Reality apps to exceed 9bn by 2022, as industry aims to emulate Pokémon Go’s success, finds Juniper Research

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total number of MR (Mixed Reality) applications will reach 9 billion by 2022, rising from an estimated 3 billion in 2018, a growth rate of 212% over 4 years. MR applications display overlaid digital objects that co-exist with the physical world alongside the ability to interact in real time. (more…)

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April 11, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Changing perceptions of engineering: Bridging the skills gap with automated engineering

According to the State of Engineering Survey by Engineering UK, the industry requires 265,000 new skilled entrantsannually in order to meet demand by 2024. Here, Martyn Williams, managing director at industrial software provider COPA-DATA UK(more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Newly released mesh network performance results from Silicon Labs clarify IoT connectivity options

Silicon Labs has released the industry’s first comprehensive network performance results based on large-scale, multicast testing of Zigbee®, Thread and Bluetooth® mesh software. Each mesh networking protocol presents unique characteristics and advantages, depending on the use case and end application. (more…)

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April 10, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

8th generation Intel Core platforms from Advantech aim to enable IoT innovations

Advantech, a provider of embedded computing solutions, has announced its new range of embedded computing platforms with the latest 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processor family (formerly Coffee Lake). (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde