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Finance firms struggle to modernize as AI and blockchain race ahead

Legacy tech – is holding finance back; nearly half of financial firms admit outdated infrastructure is stalling AI progress, with data quality and harmonization key to unlocking value. AI and cloud – dominate investments, with 80-90% of financial services outfits making both big AI bets,...

PTT 2.0 – critical comms for public safety and private industry drives $12bn boom

In sum – what you need to know: $12bn by 2028 – global revenue from high-end push-to-talk (PTT) services – especially mission-critical (MC-PTT) on 4G/5G – will hit $12 billion by 2028, with an 11% CAGR. Smarter MC-PTT – better priority-based PTT group comms, including video...

Busy Boldyn Networks pauses acquisitions, puts focus on organic growth

Boldyn pauses M&A – after a rapid acquisition spree, and despite rumours in the market, Boldyn says it has shelved future deals (on paper); its new $1.2bn debt facility in the US is for organic growth, it says. Neutral and private 5G – with major...

NTT brings high-end edge AI to drones, intros AI ethics group

In sum – what you need to know: AI chip for edge devices – NTT enables real-time 4K video processing in drones at altitudes up to 150 meters, five times higher than conventional systems, while consuming under 20 watts of power. 2025 launch, expansion – new...

Nvidia appoints Taiwanese trio to make AI infrastructure in US for first time

In sum – what you need to know: US-made AI infrastructure – Nvidia has commissioned one million square feet of new production space at factories belonging to Taiwanese trio TSMC, Foxconn, and Wistron in Arizona and Texas. Major AI-economy drive – $500 billion of AI componentry...

Siemens sells slices of O2 Telefónica’s public 5G network to German water utilities

In sum – what you need to know Siemens-led 5G offer – Siemens will hold the customer relationship, selling slices of O2 Telefónica’s 5G network to utilities with its own increasingly AI-heavy Industry 4.0 solutions. Wide-area ‘private’ 5G – optimised public 5G slicing is the only...

Hyundai opens the smartest factory in America – pumped full of AI and 5G

In sum – what you need to know America’s smartest factory – Hyundai’s new $7.6 billion electric and hybrid vehicle plant, Metaplant America, claims a series of Industry 4.0 world-firsts, generally powered by AI vision and robotics, sometimes delivered on private 5G; the firm wants...

UPS signs NTT Data on 10-year deal to overhaul AI infra and apps 

UPS has handed NTT Data a 10-year deal to overhaul its IT cloud/edge infrastructure to make new and better usage of AI to drive new efficiencies and innovations. In short – what you need to know AI transformation: UPS partners with NTT Data to overhaul IT...

ABB debuts gen AI ‘knowledge vault’ to protect, streamline Industry 4.0 knowhow

Swiss electrification and automation outfit ABB has launched a generative AI solution to preserve domain knowledge within industrial enterprises, which is vanishing from them as technicians retire and go unreplaced, and to contribute to new digital operations that drive efficiencies and attract younger workers....

Siemens intros industrial AI foundation model with Microsoft, virtual PLC with Audi

We have the know-how, we have the data, and now we have the AI – was the message from Siemens, the grand old aristocrat in Germany’s Industry 4.0 scene, at the opening of Hannover Messe, the country’s giant old Industry 4.0 trade jamboree –...

Nokia boosts Industry 4.0 apps library, intros Industry 4.0 marketplace

Nokia has bolstered its menu of industrial applications on its MXIE edge system to include new Industry 4.0 solutions for automation, efficiency, safety, security, and sustainability. At the same time, it has launched a new marketplace platform with new retail partners for enterprises to...

NTT Data intros agentic AI suite and AI infra push

NTT Data has launched a suite of software services for agentic AI for use with cloud hyperscaler platforms and AI tools. It is pitching to “all industries” to help them to develop and scale their own private AI agents; it listed manufacturing, banking, and...

Industry 4.0 lags in home of Industrie 4.0 – China and US pull clear of DACH countries, UK

An interesting Industry 4.0 update across the RCR news desk this morning says enterprises in China and the US are pushing harder with their digital change initiatives, and extending their lead over manufacturing outfits in the DACH region, the original home of Industrie 4.0,...

AI agents AI ‘for all’ – ServiceNow to acquire Moveworks for $2.85bn

Workflow automation software provider ServiceNow is to buy US-based AI outfit Moveworks for $2.85 billion as it seeks to “accelerate enterprise AI adoption” and deliver “AI agents for all employees”. ServiceNow said it will combine its agentic AI and automation tools with Moveworks’ front‑end...

Nokia signs with port operator Carrix for private 4G at US terminals

US marine port and rail yard operator Carrix has deployed Nokia’s DAC private 4G/5G system at container terminals in Jacksonville in Florida, Long Beach and Oakland in California, and Seattle in Washington. More will follow, suggested a press note. Carrix and its subsidiary SSA...

HTC installs private 5G for Nissan to support high-end VR cases

REIGN Technology Corporation (G REIGNS), a subsidiary of Taiwanese electronics firm HTC Group, has deployed a home-made private 5G network to Nissan Motor Company to support usage of its parent’s HTC VIVE virtual reality (VR) technology in the car maker’s production sites. There is...

Tampnet puts AI on private 5G for offshore energy firms

Norway-based Tampnet, a notable player in the supply of private 4G and 5G networks for offshore industry, is working with US industrial edge outfit Armada to bring AI applications to offshore energy and power companies. Tampnet, headquartered in Stavanger, holds spectrum for private offshore...

Metaverse gains for German automotive sector, claim Industry 4.0 giants

A something-and-nothing release from the home of Industrie 4.0, worth memorialising if only to remember that the whole metaverse concept is alive and well in the enterprise space, and to familiarise ourselves with some of the key players…  Deutsche Telekom’s international system integrator division T-Systems...

NTT Data ties-up with Palo Alto Networks on managed private 5G security

One way or another, Palo Alto Networks is picking them off in the private 5G space. The US firm, one of the premier cybersecurity outfits, has tied up with London-headquartered system integrator NTT Data (stylised NTT DATA) on a managed security product for 5G...

Nokia adds multi-modal AI sensor fusion to industrial 5G portfolio

Nokia has added to its burgeoning mission-critical (MX) tech supplies for Industry 4.0 with a new sensor fusion solution to mix multi-modal IoT data streams into an AI engine next to its private 4G/5G system to deliver singular contextual logic for bespoke industrial use...

Samsung, Hyundai hail RedCap tests on private 5G at world’s biggest car factory

Samsung Electronics has tested reduced-capability 5G (5G RedCap) on a private 5G network deployment at a factory belonging to Hyundai Motor Company in Ulsan, in South Korea. The tests were “end-to-end” and “successful”, the firm said, and marked an “industry-first” for testing RedCap on...

5G (etc) to drive $11tn in global GDP in manufacturing (etc) by 2030 – says GSMA

More evidence, if it was needed, that 5G is all about enterprises – whether it is used by operators, themselves, to drive internal efficiencies, or sold to other sectors as private networks, network slices, or wide-area networks (WAN) services. Ahead of MWC, the GSMA...

Unpacking the benefits of private mobile networks for warehouses

How private 5G connectivity puts warehouses on the fast track to fulfilment Warehousing and logistics are complex and highly dynamic operations, and the challenge of meeting customer expectations is only growing. More than three-quarters of organisations in Australia say the volume, number or variety of...

TSN over private 5G gets closer for Industry 4.0 – with Cumucore/Kontron collab

Interesting announcement across the RCR news desk: Finnish firm Cumucore and Austrian outfit Kontron, both private 5G vendors, have combined to deliver time-sensitive networking (TSN) capabilities on a private 5G setup for Industry 4.0 customers. TSN is an Ethernet-based functionality, which enables synchronised comms...