XR for the enterprise – Accenture and Qualcomm debut hospitality offering
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIHG piloting XR Event Planner for sales enablement, remote collaboration We’ve all attended corporate events hosted in hotel meeting rooms but perhaps we overlook the hotel staff, event planners and …
Digital transformation – four milestones for IIoT success (Reader Forum)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAfter leading the early automation revolution at the beginning of the 20th century, manufacturers are once again seeking a technological edge. A whopping 72% of manufacturing companies plan to significantly …
Digital factory revenues to to top $1tn in 2030, spurred by 5G, AI, AR, AGVs
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe global manufacturing sector will spend over $1 trillion on smart software, hardware and services in 2030, almost quadrupling the $259 billion spend in 2019. The volume of wireless connections, …
Vodafone and PTC combine to simplify IoT and AR for industry and developers
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailVodafone has signed a deal with industrial IoT and AR specialist PTC to help developers and enterprises deploy digital-change applications. The deal is an extension of an existing three-year arrangement, …
Report available now: From supply chain to demand chain – how IoT and AI are enabling the supply chain to flex to changing demand
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAUSTIN, Texas, March 25, 2019 — Digital transformation of the supply chain will be bookended by two key technologies: the internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Everything else is held …
Microsoft mixes gaming and industry to make HoloLens 2 the king of MWC gadgets
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMobile World Congress (MWC) is an operator show, run by the GSMA operator group, that has always looked and sounded like a handsets show, dominated by device makers. On Sunday …
AT&T and VITAS Healthcare to offer VR, AR for hospice patients
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail VITAS also aims to use AT&T’s 5G technology and Magic Leap headsets to help provide comfort for hospice patients AT&T and end-of-life care provider VITAS Healthcare have jointly …
AT&T, Cisco, Microsoft back new Dallas tech incubator to bring IoT, AI to smart cities
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailA new smart cities incubator has been launched in the Dallas Fort Worth region. It will focus on smart cities related technologies. Big-name collaborators on the project include AT&T, Cisco, …
Sensing and sense-making: Seven key supply chain technologies
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailI read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the …
EU/Taiwan collaboration focused on 5G use cases at the edge
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFocus 5G use cases include AR/VR and robotics An international consortium of interests from the European Union and Taiwan are working to explore end-to-end 5G use cases and recently completed …
