BT Group announces that its start-up and digital incubation team, Etc., will, over the next two years, conduct technical and commercial pilots to convert or upgrade its street cabinets for electric vehicle charging units. The pilots will provide critical insight into the viability to scale EV charging to more locations across its estate. The cabinets are currently used for providing copper-based broadband and phone services, and will be decommissioned as the ambitious nationwide upgrade to full fibre progresses. (more…)
July 28, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
People living in and around Chinley, Derbyshire, now have some of the fast and reliable broadband available in the UK. Around 20 properties from harder to reach parts of Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside – a mix of farms, cottages, and a rural pub – partnered with Openreach after they became frustrated with slow and unreliable speeds. (more…)
July 25, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Google’s Online Safety Roadshow was presented to students at the 3rd annual Xtreme5 Teen Tech Summit, presented by Grace3 Technologies and the National Black Empowerment Council. The event is part of a Google initiative to help empower young people with the tools and training they need to safely explore online. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Imply, a company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, has joined the Connect with Confluent partner programme. Through native interfaces with Confluent Cloud, this initiative aims to help organisations in accelerating the development of real-time applications. (more…)
July 21, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
F24 Nordics AS further expands its market position in the Nordics with the acquisition of Blue Idea ApS, a regional SaaS (software-as-a-service) provider for service notification. (more…)
July 20, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) published The Why and the What of Digital Twin Building Performance and Sustainability: An Owner’s Perspective. This guide is designed to assist an owner or occupier with new or existing digital twin-based building decarbonisation implementations throughout the lifecycle. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Motive Infrastructure Solutions, an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solutions firm, and Galooli, a global provider in software as a service (SaaS) solutions for remote distribution of energy assets, have entered into a partnership. This partnership sees Motive Infrastructure integrating Galooli’s solution into its diverse off-grid power product line.
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July 19, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Glo Fiber, powered by Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (‘Shentel’), announced that they have reached an agreement with municipal officials to deploy next generation fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband services to Mount Joy Borough, Pennsylvania. Engineering work is currently underway, and construction is slated to begin in late 2024. (more…)
July 17, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Saudi Aramco Technologies has signed an agreement with Moxa to further develop and commercialise the Intelligent Integrated Node (IIN) technology. The IIN technology, developed together by Aramco and Moxa, replaces numerous devices from multiple vendors, and offers instrumentation control, monitoring, and edge computing capabilities in a single fault tolerant device. (more…)
July 14, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Accenture Federal Services has secured a [$98 million (€89.30 million)] contract from the Defense Health Agency to operate and enhance the joint medical common operating picture (MedCOP). The platform provides medical command and control situational awareness for the Department of Defense, combatant commands, and the armed services. (more…)
July 9, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar