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Microsoft has made its Azure IoT Edge service ‘generally available’, and added new categories including device management and security to its Azure IoT Edge catalogue.  It has also made Azure IoT Edge available on open source developer platform GitHub, which Microsoft acquired for $7.5 billion last...

Ford has joined with AT&T, Dell and Microsoft to crowdsource ideas for mobility solutions in Pittsburgh and Miami-Dade County. Ford will award $100,000 to fund pilots of the best community-led ideas in each city. The two eight-month projects, headlined by the crowdsourcing element, marketed as...

LLTS' smart city, campus and building solutions provides energy management, cloud-based space occupancy and asset utilization and performance management   Indian engineering and research firm L&T Technology Services (LTTS), announced new smart city, campus and building solutions integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service for...

Microsoft’s mega $7.5 billion all-stock purchase of developer platform GitHub is good for the tech sector at large and for the ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market in particular, provided the US computing giant demonstrates a lightness touch in its integration work and avoids a...

Sometimes you need indisputable proof to act upon even the clearest assumptions. If you’re a city council, spending public money on infrastructure to save local communities, this burden of proof is everything. The idea the natural environment can be harnessed in urban infrastructure to manage...

Washington-state tech giant Microsoft will set up house in Houston, Texas, as part of a long-term effort with the city authority to drive grass-roots innovation, stimulate the local economy, and develop new smart city solutions. Houston said it was the first US city to be...

  PCL Construction will develop new smart building solutions backed by Microsoft's Azure services   Microsoft and PCL Construction have signed a partnership to boost the development of smart building implementations. PCL is a group of independent construction companies that carries out work across Canada, the United States,...

The White House has convened a meeting today (May 10) of 40 leading tech firms to discuss policy issues related to artificial intelligence (AI), including workforce development, regulatory barriers, and sector-specific applications. The move follows a glut of state-sponsored European AI initiatives in the...

Dell Technologies and Microsoft have launched an integrated ‘internet of things’ (IoT) offering to simplify management, enhance security and reduce the cost of edge devices in industrial settings. The solution is targeted at predictive maintenance and supply chain monitoring, among industrial IoT use cases. The...

Hannover Messe is the biggest industrial fair on the planet; this year's smart factory set-ups were its most exciting yet - exhibiting high speeds, high security, and high performance, and suggesting high times for manufacturers in the coming months and years. Here, we select...

Industrial transformation companies must specialise and collaborate if they are to capitalise on the opportunities afforded by the Industry 4.0 movement, according to Swiss automation company ABB. The chorus line of companies at Hannover Messe proclaiming ‘end-to-end’ technology solutions for the digital transformation of the...

Microsoft has announced a new platform to secure ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices. Dubbed Azure Sphere, it layers in three levels of enhanced IoT security, in its chip, operating system (OS) and cloud. Most significantly, Microsoft has introduced a new “cross-over class” of chip, or...

Microsoft promises to pump $5 billion into the IoT and edge computing Microsoft recently unveiled plans to invest $5 billion in the internet of things (IoT) over the next four years. The announcement was made by Corporate Vice President of Azure Julia White in a company...

French president Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to invest €1.5bn ($1.85bn) in new education and business initiatives around artificial intelligence (AI) was applauded by the telecoms industry, but only as the latest promise in an intensifying political arms race. Macron said last week France would invest...

Orange said in a statement it supports the French government’s new plan on artificial intelligence (AI), and announced in tandem the acceleration of its own use of AI. The France-based company said it will help train 500 people in the field, and recruit 200...

Telefónica is offering tighter control and integration with Microsoft’s Azure IoT suite, to enable its enterprise customers using public clouds to more easily connect and manage their IoT devices. The Spain-based carrier said customers connecting IoT devices to the Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft’s IoT management...

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...

Microsoft gives sneak peak of Windows Server 2019 Microsoft recently previewed Windows Server 2019 with general availability slated for the second half of this year. Based on feedback from its customers, Microsoft is focused on four themes with Windows Server 2019, including hybrid, security, application...

Microsoft to open data centers in Abu Dhabi and Dubai Microsoft announced plans to open its first data centers in the Middle East, while expanding its data centers in Europe. The Middle East data centers will be located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in United Arab Emirates....

Indian firm TechSpan is using the Microsoft IoT platform to monitor the quality of the water, among other parameters Microsoft IoT solutions are helping the government of India to clean up the Ganges, which has been the holy river of India for centuries. Stretching nearly...

Choosing a vendor Businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud in order to deploy applications, scale resources on-demand, cut costs, among other benefits. In order to reap the benefits of the cloud, however, a company must first choose a cloud vendor, which is no small...

Transitioning to the cloud Companies are increasingly moving to the cloud as a way to run day-to-day business operations. Migrating to the cloud is easier said than done, however. A host of unexpected problems can occur without the proper foresight, costing companies both time and...

Microsoft to combine Azure Stack with Azure Government Microsoft announced it will integrate its Azure Stack with Azure Government sometime in the middle of the year as part of an initiative to attract government agencies. The offering is aimed at government agencies that require on-premise servers....

Riverbed announces SteelConnect updates Riverbed recently announced updates to its SD-WAN solution SteelConnect, including private links that enable users to connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Other updates include integration between SteelConnect and Riverbed Xirrus Wi-Fi, and the addition of Long Term...