Press Releases

CTA targets 20,000 Ethiopian smallholders with climate smart technology

CTA together with Farm Africa has launched a new project to promote the resilience of smallholder farmers against climate change in Ethiopia’s Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR). (more…)

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November 8, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Verizon realigns organisation structure to optimise growth opportunities in 5G era

To deliver new best-in-class customer experiences and to ensure first-to-market leadership in the 5G era, Verizon Communications Inc announced a new operating structure focused on three customer-facing areas: Consumer, Business and Verizon Media Group / Oath. (more…)

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November 7, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

WBA annual industry report finds 84% of industry is as or more confident in Wi-Fi investment

The growth in Wi-Fi continues unabated, with increasing volumes of Wi-Fi devices and traffic, an adoption breakthrough in Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) Passpoint, and increasing confidence around the commercial deployment and specification of next generation technology Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax). (more…)

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November 6, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Engineers must rethink tests to commercialise 5G products, NI Trend Watch 2019 shows

National Instruments (NI), provider of a software-defined platform that aims to accelerate the development and performance of automated test and automated measurement systems, released its NI Trend Watch 2019 (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Terbine opens first nationwide system of public agency IoT data

Terbine announced at the ITS America Executive Forum that it has successfully characterised and indexed open-source IoT data feeds from public agencies across the country, and made the feeds discoverable via a single, standardised interface. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

MinebeaMitsumi commits to open communication networks by joining the uCIFI Alliance

MinebeaMitsumi Group, a global provider of Electro Mechanics Solutions, and its European Research & Development centre, Paradox Engineeringspecialists in wireless technologies and IoT solutions for smart cities, have joined the uCIFI Alliance. (more…)

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November 5, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

£1.5m contracts boost delivers a perfect 30th birthday present for Mechatronic Solutions

A Birmingham automation and smart factory provider is celebrating its 30th birthday in style after securing a clutch of new contracts wins across aerospace, automotive, food and drink and healthcare. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Russia to rapidly scale 5G following launch of first 5G networks in 2020, finds new GSMA study

Russia is set to become a “fast follower” 5G nation on the global stage, with 5G networks forecast to provide coverage to more than 80% of the country’s population by 2025, according to a new GSMA study. (more…)

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November 2, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

US Democratic party fundraising firm leaves data-filled NAS open to IoT search

Reports are emerging that a consumer-grade network attached storage (NAS) device owned by Rice Consulting, a fundraising firm working primarily with the Democratic Party in the US, containing client data and passwords giving access to other organisations, was left publicly accessible. (more…)

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TIoTA and MachNation team up to present trusted IoT challenges worldwide

The Trusted IoT Alliance (TIoTA), an ecosystem of more than 50 companies working together to build open source trusted systems for IoT with blockchain and related technologies, and MachNation, a global independent IoT research and benchmarking firm, introduced an initiative to stage a series of Trusted IoT Challenges worldwide.

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November 1, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello