New technologies and approaches spur five key smart cities strategy shifts. It’s time for smart cities to embrace new technologies and approaches to combat a growing list of challenges, states global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. In its new whitepaper, 5 Ways Smart Cities Are Getting Smarter, ABI Research identifies digital twins & urban […]
Sequans and Seong Ji Announce New LTE-M/NB-IoT Module Now Certified in South Korea
Seong Ji’s LTM600 module approved to operate on network of LGU+. Sequans Communications S.A., and Seong Ji Industrial Co. Ltd., South Korean manufacturer of electrical equipment and components, announced that Seong Ji’s LTM600 LTE Cat M1/NB1 module, based on Sequans’ Monarch chip, has been certified by LGU+, one of Korea’s leading mobile operators. The certification […]
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now Azure Synapse Analytics
On November fourth, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics, the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings […]
Delivering increased productivity for bot development and deployment
Over the past few years, we have seen many examples of organizations applying conversational AI in meaningful ways. Accenture and Caesars Entertainment are making their employees more productive with enterprise bots. UPS and Asiana Airlines are using bots to deliver better customer service. And finally, BMW and LaLiga have built their own branded voice assistants, […]
Blockchain Will Spur Growth Among SMEs Says Ex-Governor of India’s Central Bank
Ripple’s much-awaited conference, Swell has kick-started enthralling famous personalities from the blockchain, crypto and finance arena. Dr. Raghuram Rajan, 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund lauded Blockchain technology and said that it will be beneficial in reducing transaction costs and will also accelerate the growth […]
What’s new with Azure Monitor
At Microsoft Ignite 2018, we shared our vision to bring together infrastructure, application, and network monitoring into one unified offering, and provide full-stack monitoring for your applications. We have since made rapid strides towards delivering that reality to our customers. From consolidating our logs, metrics and alerts platforms, and integrating existing capabilities such as Application […]
Accelerating customer success with Azure migration
This blog post was co-authored by Jeremy Winter, Partner Director and Tanuj Bansal, Senior Director for Microsoft Azure. At last year's Microsoft Ignite 2018, we shared best practices on how to move to the cloud and why Azure is the best destination for all your apps, data, and infrastructure. Since then, we’re happy to share […]
China Merchants Bank International (CMBI) Participates in $72 Million Token Sale of a Public Blockchain
A blockchain that claims to solve the problems of Bitcoin and Ethereum, by allowing users to enjoy scalability features without sacrificing their network securities, raised $72 million USD in an October token sale to major firms including Polychain Capital and China Merchants Bank International (CMBI) and Hashkey Capital. Nervos Network, a blockchain-based firm aiming to […]
Confirmed: Indian Telecom Regulator [TRAI] To Launch Blockchain-Based Spam SMS Blocking Platform
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) previous year issued a new draft guideline that prompted mobile operators to invest in blockchain. The step was taken to curb the menace of unwanted SMSs from marketing companies. A recent tweet by Paytym founder Vijay Shekhar has confirmed that TRAI is ready with its Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) […]
Cellular IoT Device Shipments approach 350M annually by 2025
5G to Dominate IoT Cellular Device Sales by 2025. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, IoT Cellular Device Sales will undergo a transition with 5G, the dominant air interface, in 2025, as published by Strategy Analytics IoT Strategies service. Strong growth from projects in China has continued to provide a healthy impetus to […]