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Elon Musk just revealed his biggest epiphany of the year

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed his "biggest epiphany of 2016:" what really matters in production are the machines building the machines. In an interview with Y Combinator's Sam Altman, Musk said that creating the machines that are to build Tesla automobiles is at least...

Huawei signs smart city deal with French firm Voelia

Huawei believes this cooperation agreement will offer enhanced smart city solutions Chinese ICT services provider Huawei and French company Veolia recently signed an agreement to collaborate on smart city initiatives. Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will work together to improve the quality of...

Driving to 5G, SK Telecom, Nokia implement software-defined RAN

Claiming a world first, he Korean telco said the new technology paves the way for 5G network innovation SK Telecom and Finnish vendor Nokia have implemented what they claim to be the world’s first cloud-based software-defined radio access network (SDRAN)--also known as Cloud RAN--in a commercial...

Stackable, IoT-enabled dumpster homes to address urban housing crisis

From dumpster to smart home AUSTIN--Jeff Wilson, CEO and founder of KASITA, moved from a modern, comfortable, 3,000 square-foot home to a 33 square-foot dumpster. His inspiration for the drastic, unconventional change came from a UCLA study that tracked the movements of 32 middle class families throughout...

RYNO: A single-wheeled motorcycle for the future of urban transport

AUSTIN--Chris Hoffman, CEO of RYNO Motors, spoke about his single-wheeled motorcycle and vision for a future with vending machine-like on-demand car rental stations at the Start@ETS event put on by ZPryme. Hoffman was challenged by his daughter to create a single-wheeled motorcycle after seeing one in a...

Meet the smiling self-driving car that communicates with pedestrians

A common language is required for how self-driving cars communicate with pedestrians, says Semcon, which has developed a smiling self-driving car technology. While car makers and software companies working on self-driving car technology research extensively how cars should interact with other cars in traffic, much...

IoT in Action Episode 2: Vodafone NZ uses big data for customer insight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkfAOhO2Uss In our second episode of IoT in Action, we speak with David Bloch of Vodafone New Zealand at Teradata PARTNERS 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, about how the operator is using big data. Bloch said the network operator uses Teradata's Aster and Hadoop clusters to capture...

Big data helps Paramount and Maersk Line adapt to changing times

Paramount tackles big data with analytics ATLANTA – Joe Churchill, VP of analytics at Paramount Pictures, and Chris Twogood, VP of product and services marketing at Teradata, co-hosted a panel titled Paramount's Journey into the Cloud at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta. Paramount is...

Using big data to accurately predict death in the ‘Game of Thrones’ series

Spoiler warning: The following article contains spoilers from the "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series as well as the "Game of Thrones" TV series ATLANTA – Most predictive analysis doesn’t require a spoiler warning. That is, until a data scientist uses it to accurately predict...

Big data helps Paramount and Maersk Line adapt to changing times

Paramount tackles big data with analytics Joe Churchill, vice president of analytics at Paramount Pictures, and Chris Twogood, vice president of product and services marketing at Teradata, co-hosted a panel titled Paramount's Journey into the Cloud at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Paramount...

Deutsche Telekom connected home platform to integrate with Amazon Alexa app

Amazon said Alexa, Echo and the Echo Dot services are available in Germany and the United Kingdom German operator Deutsche Telekom (DT) confirmed its non-proprietary platform for connected homes Qivicom will be integrated with the Alexa app from Amazon. With this new service customers will soon...

Using big data to accurately predict death in the Game of Thrones series

Spoiler warning: The following article contains spoilers from the "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series as well as the "Game of Thrones" TV series Most predictive analysis doesn’t require a spoiler warning. That is, until a data scientist uses it to accurately predict the death...

All about the European Commission’s new 5G action plan

The European Commission has proposed a new 5G action plan aiming to ensure 5G is fully deployed across the European Union by 2025. On the occasion of European Commission (EC) president Jean-Claude Juncker’s 2016 State of the Union address on Wednesday, the EC proposed an overhaul...

How data management unlocks the internet of things

Use cases for analyzing data ATLANTA – Ron Bodkin, founder and president of Think Big, hosted a panel titled "The key to unlocking value in the internet of things? Managing data!" at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, and emphasized that a variety of data...

Nokia and Sonera test 5G, new copper cable technologies

Nokia and Sonera, the Finnish arm of Nordic telecoms operator Telia Company, carried out a trial of 5G mobile networking and new copper cable technologies capable of delivering data speeds of up to 10 Gbps. The trial in August was built around a 5G-ready network...

How data management unlocks the internet of things

Use cases for analyzing data Ron Bodkin, founder and president of Think Big, hosted a panel titled "The key to unlocking value in the internet of things? Managing data!" at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia, and emphasized that a variety of data is...

Ericsson, Qualcomm and others partner to license IoT technologies

InterDigital, ZTE, KPN join Ericsson and Qualcomm in group called Avanci to license standard-essential, patented tech to IoT companies The idea behind Avanci, comprised of telecom companies with vast (and essential) patent holdings, is to create a one-stop marketplace where a single license buys access...

Smart cities key to reaching sustainable development goals

By signing the “Montevideo Declaration”, policy makers from around the world made smart cities a core element in reaching the U.N.’s sustainable development goals. With 70 percent of the world population expected to be living in cities by 2050, smart cities are increasingly seen as...

Teradata releases accelerators aimed at expediting the IoT

IoT accelerators focus on deployment and maintenance ATLANTA – Teradata highlighted the company’s late August release of four accelerators built to speed up the transformation of "internet of things" data to actionable insight during its PARTNERS 2016 conference. The company’s “Analytics of Things Accelerators” were created from...

Teradata releases accelerators aimed at expediting the IoT

IoT accelerators focus on deployment and maintenance ATLANTA--Teradata highlighted the company’s late August release of four accelerators built to speed up the transformation of IoT data to actionable insight during its PARTNERS 2016 conference. The company’s “Analytics of Things Accelerators” (AoTAs) were created from successful...

5 essential analytics for internet of things applications

Data analytics, the brain of IoT ATLANTA – Mike Gualtieri, principal analyst at Forrester, hosted a panel titled Five Essential Analytics for IoT Applications, at Teradata's PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta. He listed five essential types of data analytics that must be performed on "internet of things" applications...

Atek takes IoT beyond tanks, sees growth

Human expectations for constant connectivity and better information are boosting industrial internet of things projects, according to Sherri McDaniel, president of Atek Access Technologies. "I think we're at an interesting time as human beings," McDaniel said. "We now expect to be connected all the time,...

5 essential analytics for internet of things applications

Data analytics, the brain of IoT Mike Gualtieri, principal analyst at Forrester, hosted a panel titled Five Essential Analytics for IoT Applications, at Teradata's PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. He listed five essential types of data analytics that must be performed on IoT applications on...

Teradata analytics database easily deployed on leading clouds

Teradata analytics easily transferable to leading clouds Teradata today announced Teradata Everywhere at its PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta. Teradata Everywhere brings the massively parallel processing analytics database to multiple public clouds, managed cloud and on-premises environments including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Teradata Managed...