Infineon, the Munich-based semiconductor and microelectronics company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alibaba Cloud Computing to promote Chinese IoT. The MoU focuses on increasing uses and speeding adoption of IoT for smart life and smart industry applications in China. Infineon will collaborate with Alibaba Cloud to expand and promote AliOS Things, the...

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Telit has announced that its deviceWISE IoT platform is now fully interoperable with the IBM Watson IoT platform. Together, Telit and IBM intend to use these products to promote global industrial IoT deployments. Using the deviceWISE IoT solution in combination with the IBM Watson IoT platform is intended to enable immediate on-boarding of IoT devices for...

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Dutch telecom firm Altice’s Portuguese division is partnering with Huawei in an attempt to make Portugal the European 5G leader. According to Altice Portugal’s CEO, Alexandre Fonseca, the work that the two companies have done together means that Portugal may be one of the first countries to implement 5G. Speaking after a demonstration of a...

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Azure has made its IoT Edge offering globally available and made it open source and available on GitHub, which Microsoft recently acquired. The IoT Edge product, from Microsoft’s cloud division, was first released around a year ago, and has seen success in a variety of industries, according to Azure. Now, the company has made it...

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The UK government has set up a £25 million fund for self-driving car projects with the aim of getting them on roads by 2020. The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), set up by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Transport in 2015, has a fund of up...

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Siemens speaks to The Stack on the findings of the Made Smarter Review which sets out a roadmap for how businesses can undertake the wide-scale adoption of industrial digital technologies (IDTs).  The findings articulated in the Made Smarter Review clearly shows the way forward if our industrial base is to capitalise on the potential of digitalisation in order...

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Autonomous vehicles are not yet safe. News broke recently that the autopilot in a Tesla involved in a fatal crash caused the car to speed up towards a barrier. The car, carrying 38-year-old Apple engineer Wei Huang, who later died in hospital, went from 62mph to 70.8mph in the three seconds leading up to the...

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IoT security has a new weapon as three Canadian technology companies have collaborated to create a data security solution for smart city and IoT applications. The data security solution, from eleven-x, ESCRYPT and OrbiWise, is available to all applications running on the eleven-x network, Canada’s first and only coast-to-coast IoT optimized network. The companies worked together to integrate...

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