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Month: July 2018

digital transformation business
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How technological bursts of ‘possibility’ are transforming business

July 31, 2018 Rohit Talwar 0

Recent technological bursts of progress illustrate the exponential possibilities of transforming business in all kinds of unexpected and fascinating ways, writes Fast Future’s Rohit Talwar. We are seeing the physical world colliding with the digital Read more…

T-Mobile US
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Nokia nails badly needed 5G equipment deal with T-Mobile US

July 31, 2018 News Centre 0

LONDON (Reuters) – T-Mobile US named Nokia to supply it with $3.5 billion in next-generation 5G network gear, marking the world’s largest 5G deal so far and solid evidence of a new wireless upgrade cycle Read more…

data driven society trust
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Trust is a crucial component for the data-driven society: UCC

July 31, 2018 Guest Writer 0

In a world increasingly driven by data, careful regulation will be key to take advantage of the benefits and mitigate the risks, says Godfrey Mutabazi, executive director of Uganda Communications Commission, in an interview at Read more…

mobiles
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Professional women use mobiles more for play than work: survey

July 31, 2018 News Centre 0

Professional women use mobiles to balance work and life – but mostly just life, according to a new Telenor Group survey. The “Tech Trends: Women” survey – which sampled 1,300 professional women aged 25-40 in Read more…

3 hong kong
Off the Wire

3 Hong Kong braces for 5G with large transformation project

July 31, 2018 News Centre 0

3 Hong Kong announced agreements with Tech Mahindra, Matrixx Software, Salesforce and Vlocity to enable digital transformation of its telecoms operations, all along with continued product and service innovation and business growth – all in Read more…

blockchain almonds
Off the Wire

Commonwealth Bank tracks 17 tons of almonds in blockchain experiment

July 31, 2018 News Centre 0

Seventeen tons of almonds have successfully been shipped and tracked from Sunraysia in Victoria, Australia, to Hamburg in Germany in a blockchain-based collaboration between Commonwealth Bank and five Australian and international supply chain players. Commonwealth Read more…

IBM
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IBM, CLS and nine banks test blockchain-based apps platform

July 31, 2018 News Centre 0

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Foreign exchange settlement provider CLS, IBM and nine financial institutions, including Barclays and Citigroup, are testing a platform to access blockchain-based applications, the companies said on Monday. The platform, LedgerConnect, will Read more…

5G
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Hong Kong CA proposes to release mmWave 5G spectrum – for free!

July 30, 2018 John C. Tanner 0

ITEM: Hong Kong’s independent Communications Authority has released its plan to make more spectrum available for 5G use, with a twist: operators can use mmWave 5G spectrum for free. To a point. Last Thursday, the Read more…

critical personal data
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India govt says ‘critical’ personal data should be processed locally

July 30, 2018 News Centre 0

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – All critical personal data on people in India should be processed within the country, a government panel said on Friday. The recommendation comes at a time when data breaches are becoming Read more…

5G cold
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A study throws cold water on 5G business models – again

July 30, 2018 Alex Leslie 3

It is becoming increasingly clear that there was no real plan for 5G success. It was, it seems, all about technology after all. Certainly based on what we believe CSPs can deliver (see any library Read more…

softbank
Off the Wire

SoftBank, Yahoo Japan and Paytm to launch QR code payment service

July 30, 2018 News Centre 0

PayPay – a joint venture established last month by SoftBank and Yahoo Japan – announced that it will team up with Indian digital payment company Paytm to launch QR-code payment services in Japan in the Read more…

original
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YouTube to expand original programming production for more markets

July 30, 2018 News Centre 0

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) – YouTube is creating scripted series and other original programming for international markets including France, Germany, Japan, Mexico and India to try to draw new customers to its paid subscription service, Read more…

IoT security
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Businesses who don’t implement IoT security worried about IoT security: survey

July 30, 2018 News Centre 0

Businesses are very concerned about losing customer trust in the event of an Internet of Things (IoT) related cyber attack, however most remain unprepared to deal with such an attack, according to a new survey Read more…

polar codes
Off the Wire

Huawei congratulates polar codes inventor (and itself) for 5G innovation

July 30, 2018 News Centre 0

Huawei has presented a special award to Turkish professor Dr Erdal Arikan, the inventor of polar codes for 5G, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of communications technology. Huawei says the paper Read more…

aerosol nanobots
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Friday Futures: aerosol nanobots, plastic eating bugs and TV hats

July 27, 2018 Alex Leslie 0

Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of  The Future from around the web. This week: aerosols deliver nanobots; a lake under Mars; Nuclear 2.0; super volcanos; dumb chatbots and plastic munching Read more…

facebook privacy
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Facebook says better privacy will hurt profits, proves it with Q2 results

July 27, 2018 News Centre 0

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s shares lost as much as a quarter of their value on Wednesday after executives said that profit margins would plummet for several years due to the costs of improving privacy safeguards Read more…

banks
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Why (and how) the banks of the future must ‘Amazonize’ themselves

July 27, 2018 David Birch 0

Open banking will require banks to ‘Amazonize’ themselves, where products are created as API services and distributed throughout the consumption of API services. Here’s how they could go about doing that. In his new book Read more…

huawei
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Huawei fattens its annual R&D budget to at least $15 billion

July 27, 2018 News Centre 0

HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies said on Thursday it will increase its annual spending on research and development (R&D) to between $15 billion and $20 billion, as it races to be a global Read more…

digital
Off the Wire

Here are six barriers to digital transformation – the first one is you

July 27, 2018 News Centre 0

Only a small number of organizations have been able to successfully scale their digital transformation initiatives beyond the experimentation and piloting stages as many organizations find out the hard way that digital business is not Read more…

sex dolls
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A Chinese start-up is putting AI in sex dolls because of course

July 27, 2018 News Centre 2

ZHONGSHAN, China (Reuters) – Amid Beijing’s push to turn the country into an artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse and embed the technology in all facets of life, some Chinese entrepreneurs are taking the expertise to a Read more…

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