
AWS stumps up $10m to plug industrial AI skills gap, make ML jobs accessible to all
As a counterpoint to the drive towards lights-out industrial automation, and its own role in it as supplier of sundry Industry 4.0 componentry – including, as of last week, private …

Vodafone adds 24m IoT SIMs in 12 months, tips EU’s Covid recovery plan for new growth
Vodafone added 24 million IoT SIM connections in the 12 months to September 30. Its total connections count stood at 136 million at the end of the period, at the …

Buy more 5G kit or miss your CO2 targets – says 5G kit vendor, in warning to Europe
Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms …

Scotland starts private 5G rollout in bid to add £17bn GDP and 160,000 jobs
The Scotland 5G Centre, a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened a private 5G network testbed in Dumfries in the south of Scotland, to …

Cybersecurity and patent abuse hold back industrial IoT’s true potential (Reader Forum)
Between device hijacking, data breaches, and intellectual property theft, there are many known risks associated with a cybersecurity compromise in internet of things (IoT) applications. At the same time, many …

Nokia signs MoU with ATU to drive Industry 4.0 in Africa
Nokia has signed a deal with the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) to leverage industrial 5G, and other technologies, to drive the Industry 4.0 movement on the continent, as well as …

Vodafone urges UK to bundle 5G and IoT targets and incentives into net zero strategy
Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The …

Microsoft and Nokia bundle ‘space tech’ and 5G to spur Australian industry
Microsoft and Nokia have partnered with the South Australian Government to combine ‘space technology’ and terrestrial 5G in service of local industry, including as the basis for digital change in …

University of Birmingham recruits Siemens to build ‘world’s smartest campus’
The University of Birmingham in the UK has devised a plan to be “the world’s smartest global campus” by deploying IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to link academic research …

‘5G is not a special flower’ – a two-sided tale of telcos’ trouble with enterprise 5G
If the main event – the big report from which this article is taken – makes the case for operator-led management of private industrial 5G networks, with a primary investigation …