IBM announced it has acquired Montreal-based fintech company, Expertus Technologies Inc. The acquisition strengthens IBM’s portfolio as an end-to-end digital payments solution provider and further advances IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI strategy. (more…)
December 16, 2020
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Transit Wireless, a BAI Communications and 5G wireless infrastructure company, announced that Jyoti Mahurkar-Thombre has joined the company as chief technology officer. In her senior leadership role, she will drive technology strategy to facilitate the company’s growing 5G infrastructure buildouts. Mahurkar-Thombre is based in New York City and will report directly to Melinda White, chief executive officer of Transit Wireless. (more…)
December 15, 2020
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Combining its core competencies in robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles with a deep understanding of customer needs, LG Electronics announced that it is developing an autonomous robot that will use ultraviolet (UV-C) light to disinfect high-touch, high-traffic areas. LG Business Solutions USA plans to offer the UV robot to U.S. hospitality, education, corporate, retail, restaurant, and transportation customers in early 2021.
“We hope LG’s first UV disseminating robot will give our customers, and in turn their customers, peace of mind,” explained Michael Kosla, vice president, LG Business Solutions USA. “Whether it’s hotel guests, students in classrooms or patrons of restaurants and other businesses, they can rest assured that the LG autonomous UV robot will help reduce their exposure to harmful bacteria and germs,” he says.
To be officially unveiled at Digital CES® 2021, LG’s new robot is expected to enable a new standard of hygiene by helping to disinfect high-touch, high-traffic areas. Because of its autonomous design, the robot will be able to move easily around tables, chairs and other furniture, generally irradiating a room’s touchable surfaces in 15 to 30 minutes, disinfecting multiple areas on a single battery charge.
Engineered to be easy to operate, the robot can be integrated into established cleaning routines without requiring extensive staff training or specialists to operate it. Staff will be able to monitor progress via remote updates to smartphones or tablets. Employee exposure to UV rays will be minimised through a built-in safety lock activated by human motion detection sensors, pressing of an emergency stop button or via the mobile application.
“A higher level of disinfection is going to become the new customer expectation in the new contactless economy where we now all live, work, learn and play,” Kosla says. “LG is bringing to bear its expertise in robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles for creative solutions like this to meet specific customer requirements.” This is the first in a series of new LG CLOi autonomous robots planned for introduction in the United States during 2021.
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AccelerComm, a company working 5G with IP to increase spectrum efficiency and reduces latency, has joined The O-RAN alliance. The alliance aims to re-shape mobile networks to be more intelligent, open, virtualised and fully interoperable without compromising performance. (more…)
December 14, 2020
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Siemens has created a Smart Buildings game and supporting educational resources to help demystify COVID-19 and empower Key Stage 3 (11yrs – 14yrs) students to learn more about their personal and public health and safety while having fun learning from home or school. (more…)
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IBM Security announced new technology initiatives leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS), designed to help clients simplify and extend their security visibility across AWS and hybrid cloud environments. (more…)
December 11, 2020
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Remark Holdings, Inc., a diversified global technology company with artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions and digital media properties, announced that Remark’s KanKan AI business successfully released its edge computing systems, the S and T Series Smart Boxes, AI-based edge computing boxes equipped with NVIDIA’s new generation of high-performance edge computing modules, with a smaller size and lower power requirements. (more…)
December 10, 2020
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HeadSpin, the digital experience AI platform, announces it has been recognised as a horizontal solution provider for Google Cloud’s recently unveiled initiative to deliver partner applications at the edge, part of its Global Mobile Edge Cloud (GMEC) strategy, a portfolio and marketplace of 5G solutions and an open cloud platform for developing network-centric applications. (more…)
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Terbine and Flash Labs Corporation U.S. affiliate of Hyundai BS&C announced a strategic partnership to bring blockchain based security to sensor data that moves within and between smart cities. (more…)
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Nokia announced the ‘Nokia Local 5G Technology Partnership’, a new strategic alliance involving Conexio, Hitachi Kokusai, NS (Nippon Steel) Solutions, Omron and Sharp to accelerate adoption of 5G-based enterprise industry solutions in Japan. (more…)
December 9, 2020
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