Data reported by SIMalliance shows that the collective SIM shipments of its members in 2017, which represented approximately 88% of the global SIM market, equalled 4.9 billion units. SIMalliance confirms that over the same period, the estimated total available global market for SIM cards has grown by 2.75%, with units rising from 5.45 billion to 5.6 billion. (more…)
April 20, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
u-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies, has announced the new NINA-B2 dual-mode Bluetooth® 4.2 stand-alone module, enabling industrial IoT applications thanks to its built-in secure boot and wide temperature ranges. (more…)
April 18, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
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…)
April 13, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
PTC announced that Sealed Air Corporation, a global provider of food and product packaging solutions and services, has selected PTC’s ThingWorx® Industrial Innovation Platform to improve operational efficiency across its entire value chain. (more…)
April 5, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
Part 1 of “Edge Computing Adds Virtualisation and Hyperconvergence” outlined a development that looks set to have wide-ranging implications for the future of IoT. That probably sounds like more hype, so let’s cut to the chase and take a look at an intrinsic issue that this development has addressed. (more…)
March 23, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
Averon, developer of the world’s first mobile identity verification standard that is both automatically frictionless and ultra-secure, announced it has closed a $5 million (€4.05 million) Series A1 financing round led by Avalon Ventures and Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff. (more…)
March 22, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
Sensors integrated into devices use the internet and offer a bulk of data that is extremely useful, says Danish Wadhwa. There are many reasons for transmitting sensor data but all reasons settle on a common assumption that is data can be mined and evaluated to generate actionable insights. (more…)
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
There is no doubt that industrial applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) have emerged as some of the most compelling use cases for the technology. The latest estimates place the number of connected devices anywhere between 20 billion and 50 billion by 2020, (more…)
March 21, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
BlackBerry Limited announced it is furthering leadership in securing the Enterprise of Things (EoT) with a wide-range of new software capabilities aimed at making it easier for users, IT managers, and developers to do more, securely. (more…)
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
Data is created at the edge and bringing processing power close to the source generates real-time information on which informed decisions and actions can be taken at the local level. This development — edge computing — has been driven by cost and time. (more…)
March 20, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde