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6G and the quantum internet If you're in the telecoms world, you likely hear something about 5G at least 100,000 times every day. But, as with anything technology-related, you've got to keep on looking at what's next. And if 5G is on the bubble, it...

IBM wants to maintain Red Hat "open source innovation" As it stands, IBM's cloud customers have moved around 20% of their workloads to the cloud, according to CEO Ginni Rometty. She called that chapter one. Chapter two is moving the other 80%, which she said...

IBM has released a range of new Watson artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and services tailored for the agriculture, manufacturing, supply chain, building management, and automotive industries. “Tailoring general AI for specific industries and professions is a critical way to enable everyone to reach new potential...

IBM has launched an open-source toolkit to discern bias in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The project, in Python, presents developers with fairness metrics to check for bias in machine learning workflows, and bias mitigators to overcome bias and produce a fairer outcome. IBM has also made...

Logistics company Maersk and technology company IBM have introduced an open blockchain platform, called TradeLens, to digitise the global shipping trade. The pair said 94 organisations are already involved, or have agreed to participate, including 20 port and terminal operators across the globe. TradeLens employs blockchain-based...

The team of researches have tested smart city systems from Libelium, Echelon and Battelle   A team of researchers from Threatcare and IBM X-Force Red have joined forces to test several smart city devices, with the specific goal of finding vulnerabilities in smart city systems. Earlier this...

IBM has announced a new cybersecurity testing facility for its X-Force Red ethical hacking team at its campus in Austin, Texas, alongside three further testing sites, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the US, Hursley, England, in the UK, and Melbourne, in Australia. The network of facilities,...

Needham-based industrial software maker PTC has come top in a series of reviews of industrial IoT (IIoT) platform providers. Its ThingWorx proposition has been consistently identified by analysts in 2018 as a leading platform for digital transformation. PTC also topped Gartner’s inaugural ‘magic quadrant’ for...

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has established a ‘smart printing factory testbed’ in collaboration with Fujitsu, IBM, Real-Time Innovations (RTI) and Toshiba to develop technologies to help the printing industry automate production and maintenance processes. The IIC said the group is using the testbed to...

Stockholm is a ‘lighthouse city’, alongside Cologne and Barcelona, in the European Commission’s GrowSmarter project, one of three to receive support in the first ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ (SCC1) call under the Horizon 2020 funding stream, the biggest innovation fund in Europe, with €80 billion allocated through...

Analyst house Gartner has put the leading IIoT platforms through their paces, and named the best in the business. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights reviews the Gartner review, and orders the results, to summarise the best industrial IoT platforms available to enterprises in the energy...

PTC, Hitachi and SAP have come top of Gartner’s inaugural ‘magic quadrant’ for IIoT platforms, ahead of IBM, Software AG and Accenture. But the analyst house warned also that major challenges remain for IoT providers in the industrial space, including with market fragmentation and...

MTN has selected Cisco's Jasper Control Center platform as a launchpad for enterprise customers' 'internet of things' (IoT) services on its mobile network in South Africa. MTN said interest in new IoT services was strongest in the connected car, vehicle tracking, building security and...

Proximus is launching a narrowband internet-of-thing (NB-IoT) network to run alongside its LoRaWAN infrastructure in the Flemish Region in the north of Belgium. The NB-IoT deployment, commissioned by IBM and Sagecom, is initially trained on 1.3 million digital smart meters for monitoring the supply...

Cisco appears to have found its rhythm in the enterprise IoT space by integrating communications technologies and data streams in its Kinetic platform for smart factories and smart cities. Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Bryan Tantzen, in charge of its manufacturing IoT business,...

IBM’s new facility will focus on IoT, AI, blockchain and quantum computing   IBM has launched a new innovation center in Abu Dhabi which will mainly focus on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, blockchain, security, analytics, internet of things and quantum computing. IBM’s Innovation...

A consortium of car makers and tech companies including BMW, Bosch, Ford, General Motors, Renault and IBM have joined together to explore how blockchain could enable businesses and consumers to better control and monetise their mobility assets, including their data. The new group, called the...

The ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is being undermined by complexity, as well as challenges with security, reckons UK-based micro-processor firm Arm, as it confirmed deeper integration with IBM’s Watson. “The market hasn’t come as far as we’d hoped; it is pretty fragmented – by...

Cisco and IBM have completed the integration of their Kinetic platform and Watson IoT system to improve data processing and intelligence at the network edge. The partnership is being brought to bear on autonomous shipping and logistics in the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest...

IBM updates IRP IBM is merging human and machine-based intelligence with updates to its Resilient Incident Response Platform (IRP). The platform now includes intelligent orchestration in order to improve the response process to security threats. It consolidates features like incident case management, orchestration, automation, intelligence and...

Google embracing blockchain technology Google is reportedly looking into using blockchain technology to boost the search engine giant’s cloud business, according to sources familiar with the matter at Bloomberg. Blockchain is a technology that helps keep record of online transactions in a distributed, decentralized way using...

IBM announces new system-on-a-chip IBM introduced what it claims to be the world’s smallest computer for blockchain technology at IBM Think 2018, according to a report by Mashable. The miniature computer IBM premiered is a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) reportedly “smaller than a grain of salt.” The chip...

Ericsson, Ciena, IBM, Thales and CGI involved in 5G project ENCQOR, Evolution of Networked Services through a Corridor in Québec and Ontario for Research and Innovation, is the public-private partnership focused on 5G technology and use case development backed to the tune of $400 million...

IBM announces managed Kubernetes on bare-metal servers IBM announced its Cloud Container Service, a fully-managed container services based in Kubernetes, is now able to run on bare metal nodes. Containers are a lightweight form of virtualization, which enable developers to run an application and its dependencies...