
Cisco, Nokia, Vodafone join IBM blockchain to bring order, trust to supply chain
Cisco, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric, and Vodafone have joined IBM’s new Trust Your Supplier (TYS) blockchain project to bring efficiency, order, and accountability to the supply chain. Belgian brewing company …

Blockchain holds much promise for IoT security (Reader Forum)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is generating a great deal of excitement across all verticals, especially as operators ramp up plans for 5G networks. IoT increasingly is being used across …

Report available now: From supply chain to demand chain – how IoT and AI are enabling the supply chain to flex to changing demand
AUSTIN, 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 …

AT&T mixes industry verticals and digital tech to brew-up new supply-chain magic
The supply chain links the whole Industry 4.0 movement. For higher-grade operational intelligence to be brought to bear across the wider industrial market, the supply chain needs to mesh-in with …

Continental and HPE ride-share on blockchain data-trading for car makers
IT company HPE and Continental, best known for making tyres, have revealed a new blockchain-based trading platform for vehicle data to help car makers monetise data and tie in with emerging …

AT&T, Cisco, Microsoft back new Dallas tech incubator to bring IoT, AI to smart cities
A 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, …

IBM and partners use Blockchain, IoT to combat drought in California
IBM , TFT and SweetSense are piloting technologies to accurately monitor and track groundwater use in Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta The Freshwater Trust (TFT), together with IBM Research and …

Chain of custody: Supply chains, blockchains – and the Spice Girls
The Spice Girls have been back again (at writing) nwith a reunion tour and a souvenir t-shirt. It is a nostalgia trip, for sure – in terms of the songbook …

World Economic Forum’s new Industry 4.0 policy bureau puts focus on AI, blockchain
Membership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations and a number of international organisations …

Sensing and sense-making: Seven key supply chain technologies
I 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 …