Sigfox and Alps Alpine, a manufacturer of high-quality electronic products, have signed a Global Alliance Partnership Agreement. The agreement is the first of its kind for Sigfox, allowing it to work closely with Alps Alpine to drive forward technical innovation and expand their combined reach. Alps Alpine is one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of […]
Archives for August 2019
Semtech Supports Statewide LoRaWAN® Network Deployment in Tasmania
The enterprise-grade network lets organizations benefit from Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity anywhere in-state. Semtech Corporation announced that Definium Technologies (Definium) has deployed a new enterprise-grade statewide network in Tasmania based on Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol. The network facilitates Tasmania’s transition to a laboratory for testing new technologies and allowing start-ups, businesses, […]
Quectel to Build Strategic Partnership with LG U+ on 5GNR
Quectel Wireless Solutions announced that on July 1, it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LG U+, one of South Korea’s major mobile carriers, in order to strengthen bilateral collaboration regarding M2M module products for 4G LTE and 5GNR services. Mr. Cho Weon-Seok, Vice President of LG U+, said: “Mobile subscribers would benefit […]
PyTorch on Azure: Full support for PyTorch 1.2
Congratulations to the PyTorch community on the release of PyTorch 1.2! Last fall, as part of our dedication to open source AI, we made PyTorch one of the primary, fully supported training frameworks on Azure. PyTorch is supported across many of our AI platform services and our developers participate in the PyTorch community, contributing key […]
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland
UBS Group, Swiss Re Group, Swisscom, and others turn to Microsoft for their digital transformations Today, we’re announcing the availability of Azure from our new cloud regions in Switzerland. These new regions and our ongoing global expansion are in response to customer demand as more industry leaders choose Microsoft’s cloud services to further their digital […]
iBASIS Chosen by Simfony for Global eSIM Connectivity Solutions
Selection follows two-year analysis of best capabilities in the eUICC market Integrated in Q2, traffic and usage rapidly growing across verticals Simfony MVNO customers enabled to launch and grow IoT services globally iBASIS, the leading provider of communications solutions for operators and digital players worldwide, today announced that Simfony, the leading IoT PaaS provider and […]
US firms dominate top 10 VC investors list in IoT tech space in 2018
The US was home to majority of the global top 10 venture capital (VC) investors in the Internet of Things (IoT) tech space in 2018, according to GlobalData. The top 10 VC investors (Baidu, Amazon Alexa Fund, Intel Capital, Robert Bosch, Northern Light Venture Capital, Khosla Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners and […]
Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites
Providing users fast and reliable access to their cloud services, apps, and content is pivotal to a business’ success. The latency when accessing cloud-based services can be the inhibitor to cloud adoption or migration. In most cases, this is caused by commercial internet connections that aren’t tailored to today’s global cloud needs. Through deployment and […]
AI can help prevent mass shootings
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand tracking from Google’s AI labs, however, could be the breakthrough some have been waiting for. The new technique uses a few […]
Harnessing the power of the Location of Things with Azure Maps
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the beginning of accessing planetary-scale insights. With the mass adoption of IoT and the very near future explosion of sensors, connectivity, and computing, humanity is on the cusp of a fully connected, intelligent world. We will be part of the generation that realizes the data-rich, algorithmically deterministic lifestyle the […]