The World’s First Connected, Secured Payment Card – Already Backed by Major Banks Like Emirates NBD – is Enabled by Curiosity™ IoT for Connectivity, Remote Device Management, and Data Intelligence. Sprint’s Curiosity™ IoT is enabling connectivity, over-the-air device management and intelligent data capabilities for Dynamics’ Wallet Card™ – the world’s first connected payment card – […]
Archives for July 2019
5G Americas White Paper Explores Connected Future of IoT and 5G
20 billion connected things and $1 trillion in worldwide IoT spending by 2020 56 networks worldwide now offer LTE Narrowband-IoT 24 networks worldwide now offer LTE-M Machine Type Communications 5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, today announced the publication of 5G: The Future of IoT. This […]
Microsoft makes it easier to build popular language representation model BERT at large scale
This post is co-authored by Rangan Majumder, Group Program Manager, Bing and Maxim Lukiyanov, Principal Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning. Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning, so that customers can […]
Direct Line with speech now available in preview
With over 360,000 registered Azure Bot Service developers, we’ve seen significant growth in bots and virtual assistants built on Azure. A major trend we’re following is the growing need for these assistants to support voice-first conversational experiences. As a result, we’re taking steps to make it even easier for developers to build virtual assistants with […]
Cubic Telecom introduces Cloud-to-Chip solution
Cubic Telecom is the first to develop and deliver cutting-edge zero-touch software enabling cellular IoT devices onto your public or private cloud. Cubic Telecom announced at Microsoft Inspire that it has developed new state-of-the-art technology which simplifies and streamlines cellular IoT connectivity for device makers, system integrators and cloud providers. Using the fastest LTE and […]
Assess the readiness of SQL Server data estates migrating to Azure SQL Database
Migrating hundreds of SQL Server instances and thousands of databases to Azure SQL Database, our Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, is a considerable task, and to streamline the process as much as possible, you need to feel confident about your relative readiness for migration. Being able to identify low-hanging fruit including the servers and […]
Sequans Monarch LTE Chip Validated for NB-IoT on SoftBank Network
Sequans Communications S.A. announced that SoftBank Corp. a leading telecommunications operator in Japan, has validated Sequans’ Monarch chip for NB-IoT operation on its network. “Sequans Monarch is one of the most mature solutions in the industry,” said Hironobu Tamba, vice president, head of Smart IoT Division, SoftBank Corp. “The validation of Monarch for NB-IoT operation […]
New capabilities in Stream Analytics reduce development time for big data apps
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS offering that enables real-time analytics and complex event processing on fast moving data streams. Thanks to zero-code integration with over 15 Azure services, developers and data engineers can easily build complex pipelines for hot-path analytics within a few minutes. Today, at Inspire, we are announcing various new […]
Jaguar Land Rover deploys mobile data services with Ubigi in 6 new European countries
Following Transatel’s successful delivery into the UK, Germany and Italy for Jaguar Land Rover in 2018, Wave 2 of the personal SIM card and mobile data plan services deployment programme launched in May of this year. During Wave 2, Jaguar and Land Rover dealers in Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France, will begin […]
Hardware Security Module Market is Expected to Grow at CAGR of 10.9% by 2028
Future Market Insights has recently published a market research report, according to which, the global hardware security module market will record a total incremental opportunity of over a billion dollar, during the forecast period of 2018 to 2028. Hardware security modules serve cryptographic functions, which include encryption, decryption, key management/generation, and hashing. A hardware security […]