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The investment will strengthen the two companies’ collaboration on bringing the latest Microsoft AI technologies to the UAE Microsoft has announced an investment of $1.5 billion in G42, an UAE-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology holding company. The investment will strengthen the two companies’ collaboration on bringing...

Hardly a surprise, but German industrial technology juggernaut Siemens has said it will go big on AI at Hannover Messe next week. In truth, quite how big is unclear, but it has stuck out a press notice with AI in the headline, and details...

When news broke in January of Vodafone’s double deal with Microsoft to dichotomize and nebulise its airtime service operations, so its ancillary IoT unit is spun-off as a joint venture and its mainstream 5G business is reprogrammed in the cloud, there was lots of...

The US and Japan have signed two new university research partnerships to collaborate on the technical and ethical development of artificial intelligence (AI). They have received $110 million in combined private sector investment from Amazon, Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Softbank, plus “nine Japanese companies”....

Siemens and Microsoft will converge two different digital-twin programming languages as a “unified standard” in order to simplify and scale IoT projects. They are working with the W3C standards organization to make Microsoft's open-source Digital Twin Definition Language (DTDL) compatible with the W3C’s emerging...

The AI consortium is built from the United States-European Union Trade and Technology Council’s Talent for Growth Task Force Technology powerhouses including Cisco Systems, IBM, Accenture, Microsoft, Google and Intel have formed a new group called the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology Workforce Consortium to help...

IoT is hard, man. Even talking about it, in any proper detail, is hard. Except if you’re talking with Ray Ozzie – over a breakfast croissant at MWC in Barcelona last month. Ozzie, the avuncular former tech chief at Microsoft, who steered the US...

BARCELONA—Artificial intelligence is dominating conversations and sessions at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, with telecom companies and their vendors all working to figure out—or support the exploration of—just what AI can do for telecom, both in terms of benefits and risks. "It's the most...

The members of the AI-RAN Alliance will collaborate to advance RAN capabilities through AI to improve spectral efficiency MWC, Barcelona— Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft and other major players launched the AI-RAN Alliance, a body aimed at integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into cellular technology to...

For the private-5G record… Texas-based private cellular and broadcast technology company Trilogy NextGen has installed an Ericsson-made private 5G network at the new Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) studio in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The network, which also combines multi-access edge compute (MEC) from Microsoft...

The 5G edge cloud network slicing solution can be used by enterprises and industries across a wide range of use cases including retail, media, utilities, healthcare and transportation Finnish vendor Nokia and Austrian carrier A1 Austria announced that they have successfully completed what it claims...

Sub-terahertz frequencies will be tested in an indoor-only environment for high-throughput data links Microsoft is going to test indoor sub-terahertz wireless links as a potential supplement to wired links in data centers, according to documents filed with the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology. Sub-terahertz...

Professional services outfit Ernst & Young (EY) is to open an edge technologies lab (EY Edge Technologies Lab) in London with US-based Dell Technologies to demonstrate and develop edge-based “ecosystem technologies” to help enterprises with digital transformation. The venue will focus on industry-specific use...

US-based cellular IoT module maker Blues has appointed Alistair Fulton (pictured), formerly in charge of LoRa activity at chipmaker Semtech, as its new chief operating officer and vice president (“of ecosystem”) to handle the firm’s go-to-market strategy and partner base. Fulton has been around...

Vodafone’s IoT connectivity unit is to become a standalone business by April of next year (2024) following a major 10-year deal with Microsoft that will see both firms invest in the business, and the UK-based operator also commit $1.5 billion over the period to...

There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) are based on 5G, with close to half of these in trial mode, but...

The advent of 5G technology has opened up a plethora of opportunities for innovation, from IoT applications to ultra-reliable low-latency communication. However, the journey towards realizing the full potential of 5G is fraught with complexities, especially when it comes to hyperscaling network services. This...

Amdocs will use the Nvidia AI foundry service to build custom large language models for telcos Earlier this week, Nvidia announced an AI foundry service that runs on Microsoft Azure to gives enterprises an end-to-end solution for creating and optimizing custom generative AI (GenAI) models. Today,...

At the center of the Industry 4.0 ecosystem, agreed Industrial 5G Forum panelists, are the use cases The complexity of the Industry 4.0 ecosystem, coupled with the disparate needs of different verticals, means that a variety of technology players have entered the arena. However, while...

Rockwell Automation and Microsoft are working to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate industrial automation design and development. The pair said they will combine technologies to accelerate Industry 4.0 with “industry-first” generative AI, and also to “empower” workers. First up, as part of...

Orange has committed to non-cellular IoT connectivity technology LoRaWAN “beyond 2027”. The France-based mobile operator effectively told the SIDO Lyon, the major France-based IoT and AI trade fair, today (September 20) that it will continue to support the development of its public LoRaWAN network...

Deutsche Telekom tested the new private 5G network solution with Microsoft in a lab environment in Bonn German carrier Deutsche Telekom launched its new "Campus Network Smart" solution, which will be delivered in collaboration with Microsoft, the operator said in a release. Deutsche Telekom noted that...

The big message from the big massacre in ‘massive’ IoT – which has seen high-takes vendors written-down and high-stakes gamblers written-off – is that it is not a massacre at all. It is a general abandonment; a yellow-bellied resignation by the self-appointed commanders in...

What does it take to hyperscale 5G and telecom services to the next level?A combination of multi-vendor relationships, hyperscale infrastructure, platform and process and smart network data management. For telco-grade transformation, data, performance, agility and security are key to building sustainable architecture and services. AT&T,...