The requirement to feed an ever-increasing population combined with the devastation created by frequent extreme weather events, challenges every farmer globally. As Zeng Zhenyu, general manager of data intelligence, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, says, in some markets the problems are compounded further by labour shortages, a squeeze on profit margins on produce like milk and the closure of food processing facilities and local businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (more…)
April 21, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
A new study from Juniper Research has found that digital domestic money transfer transaction values will rise from $2 trillion (€1.66 trillion) in 2020 to $3.4 trillion (€2.82 trillion) in 2025; driven by the growth of mobile money transfers. (more…)
April 19, 2021
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced the latest addition to its 7-series portfolio, the Qualcomm® Snapdragon 780G 5G Mobile Platform. (more…)
March 26, 2021
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Qualcomm Technologies has announced the Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System, its fourth-generation 5G modem-to-antenna solution. Snapdragon X65 is designed to support the fastest 5G speeds currently available with fibre like wireless performance and to make optimise spectrum use for network flexibility, capacity and coverage. (more…)
February 10, 2021
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Growing mobile data traffic as we work from home, and rising business demand to connect devices in the Internet of Things are two upsides for an industry hit hard by the pandemic. But… well, you knew there had to be a ‘but’. One downside is rising fraud. It cost communication service providers US$28.3 billion according to the last CFCA global survey in 2019. BICS’ Mikael Schachne and Damion Rose, our guests on the latest Tech Trends Podcast tell us fraud is rising and they’re well placed to know. Can Machine Learning cut the risk? Jeremy Cowan and George Malim find out.
January 14, 2021
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There’s no time like a pandemic to talk about Connected and Remote Healthcare. And who better to ask about it than two senior execs from a mobile network operator successfully delivering these services now to millions in its home market. Luc Vilandre and Mike Cihra from Canada’s TELUS talk exclusively to Jeremy Cowan, host of Tech Trends Podcast and Robin Duke-Woolley, founder of Beecham Research about choices in hospitals between WiFi 6 and 5G, smart healthcare services, and about the insights that IoT brings to help decision-making. That’s before we dive into some weird and wonderful stories in the wider tech world.
December 16, 2020
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Samsung SmartThings, the provider in smart home automation, announced a partnership with Google, bringing the company’s portfolio of Nest products into SmartThings, one of the IoT ecosystems. Through the integration, Google Nest devices, including thermostats, cameras and doorbells, will be “Works With SmartThings” (WWST) certified, allowing users to seamlessly control their smart homes through SmartThings. (more…)
December 9, 2020
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has announced that users of its new OpenRoaming service will be granted enterprise-level security. This is as a result of a partnership with infrastructure security experts, Kyrio. (more…)
December 3, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
By 2021, there will be 35 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices installed around the world. IoT devices are all around us, from the time we wake up until we enjoy the last moments of entertainment before going to bed. The numbers are a wake-up call to e-commerce companies to ensure that their payment systems boast connections to the many devices that can potentially be used to make a payment. (more…)
December 2, 2020
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STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor provider serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and DSP Concepts announced four new high-performance audio front ends (AFE) with AVS qualified integrated voice processing. (more…)
November 18, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello