Mobile World Congress 2016 did meet expectations: a relentless show with people walking endlessly between halls for meetings, seeking opportunities, and listening to the latest announcements from the industry, write Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research, and Saverio Romeo the firm’s principal analyst. Over 100,000 visitors this year – the most ever – and the food at the show was even more atrocious than last year. How do they get away with it at such high prices? (more…)
March 8, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
A technology revolution is underway in which sensors, networks, and analytics software connects physical objects and infrastructure to computing systems, writes Stephen Chadwick, the managing director for EuroNorth at Dassault Systèmes. (more…)
February 23, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Product development and the customer experience both rely on accurate, timely information, writes Matt Davies, a senior director at Splunk. (more…)
February 16, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
In the first week of January, while many were still recovering from their Christmas break, the tech of tomorrow was at full blast in new inventions at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Beecham Research’s Olena Kaplan and Matthew Duke-Woolley report. (more…)
January 20, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Manufacturing has come a long way since the Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century, writes Martin Hill, the vice president of marketing at Epicor International. The second Industrial Revolution in the 1900s saw the introduction of mass production. In the late 1960s, electronics and the automation of production lines entered the industrial environment. Now, we are benefiting from robotics and are beginning to discover the value of 3D printing. We are on the cusp of Industry 4.0, the fourth Industrial Revolution. (more…)
January 4, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Suresh Srinivasan is director of quality assurance for Virtusa. He is an electrical engineer and holds a masters degree in business administration, with 24+ years of experience in software testing and development.
Suresh started his career in testing from the industrial automation and industrial robotics programming and also specialized in business system software testing in multiple domains like banking, finance, logistics, healthcare and telecoms. Currently, at Virtusa he is QA practice head for the company’s various technology centres in India.
December 9, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
Agriculture is very important for the UK economy. The whole agrifood market is worth £96 billion per annum, or 7% of GDP. The sector employs 3.8 million people. Food and drink remains the UK’s biggest manufacturing sector, bigger than cars and aerospace combined. (more…)
October 26, 2015
Posted by: Saverio Romeo
The Object Management Group (OMG) is a non-profit technology standards organisation. Located just inside what was once called America’s Technology Highway – Route 128, which traverses the greater Boston, MA, metropolitan area, OMG was founded in 1989 by eleven companies that included tech heavyweights of the day. (more…)
October 13, 2015
Posted by: Bill Ingle
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been in the news for its hype value. We’ve all heard about your alarm clock communicating with your coffee machine to have hot coffee ready for you when you step into the kitchen or your refrigerator communicating your grocery needs to the local grocer. Other examples include your mobile-controlled thermostat, your fitness trackers, drone cameras and even Uber cabs. (more…)
September 28, 2015
Posted by: Sukamal Banerjee
M2MAPPS: Ned: The VGo telepresence robot is an amazing high-tech / high-touch product. When and why was the decision made to create it?
NED SEMONITE: VGo was founded in 2007. The early years were spent raising money and starting the design. The people behind the company came out of the videoconferencing and robotics industries. (more…)
December 13, 2013
Posted by: IoT global network