IBM to pump $3B into new IoT unit
IBM announced it will invest $3 billion over the next three years in setting up a new Internet of Things (IoT) unit, designed to gather and analyse data from online devices and create “solutions”...
View ArticleIncoming STC boss says operators will play “fundamental role” in IoT
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Khaled Biyari, who will take over the chief executive reins at Saudi Telecom Company (STC) on 27 April, said 5G was only “a few years away” and that operators will play a “fundamental...
View ArticleNokia Networks CTO: Europe “natural leader” for 5G
VIDEO INTERVIEW: The US may have set the pace in terms of LTE deployment, but Hossein Moiin, CTO of Finland’s Nokia Networks, reckons Europe is the “natural place to take leadership” when it comes to...
View ArticleAltera knocks back Intel offer – reports
Altera, a specialist in programmable chips – and an Intel takeover target – reportedly called off discussions with the US chip giant due to disagreement over valuation.According to Bloomberg, Intel...
View ArticleSmall Cell Forum chief sees “wealth of opportunities” in rural and remote areas
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Sue Monahan, CEO of the Small Cell Forum, told Mobile World Live she was “amazed” at the variety of small-cell use cases for rural and remote areas. “It’s not just about cow fields,”...
View ArticleMediaTek CMO: Ecosystem building just as important as chip design
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Johan Lodenius, CMO at MediaTek, is on a mission to extend the influence of the Taiwanese firm beyond its chip designs. “A lot of what MediaTek does is about accelerating and reducing...
View ArticleGoogle on verge of MVNO launch – report
Google is set to unveil its MVNO service later today and charge customers for the amount of data they use, rather than sell data ‘buckets’, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).There is no...
View ArticleTurkey still linked to 5G ‘jump’
Reports from last week that Turkey’s president, Tayyip Erdogan, was urging the country to go straight to ‘5G’ and not bother with 4G have not gone away. A government minister, according to a local...
View ArticleCiena beefs up SDN/NFV platform with $400M Cyan deal
Network supplier Ciena announced a $400 million cash and stock deal to acquire software specialist Cyan, marking yet another move by traditional hardware vendors to shore up their NFV/SDN credentials...
View ArticleITU turns spotlight on 5G core networks
ITU, a UN agency for telecommunications, created a new focus group to look at standardisation requirements of wireline networks to support 5G RANs.The network study group is within the purview of ITU’s...
View ArticleSpiderCloud chief plans virtualisation push in “coming months”
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Mike Gallagher, CEO of SpiderCloud, a small-cell specialist for the enterprise, told Mobile World Live that the company would shortly be making announcements related to virtualisation...
View ArticleBT boasts 50,000 consumer mobile subs
BT was sufficiently impressed with take-up of its recently-launched consumer mobile service, BT Mobile, to announce that its range of SIM-only offers had attracted over 50,000 customers in the space of...
View ArticleNvidia facing $125M charge on modem business exit
Nvidia said it is facing restructuring charges of $100 million to $125 million following its decision to wind-down Icera, its modem business, if it is unable to sell the unit.Earlier this week the...
View ArticleEricsson accuses Apple of wanting special treatment over patent royalties
Ericsson has taken its legal battle with Apple to Europe – filing lawsuits in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK – to ramp up pressure on the iPhone-maker to pay royalties, on standard-essential...
View ArticleGerman carmakers may need help in race for HERE – report
Car manufacturers Audi, BMW and Daimler, which reportedly clubbed together to make an indicative bid for HERE, Nokia’s digital mapping business, may need outside financial help if they are to fend off...
View ArticleEE LTE traffic now exceeds 3G; hits 10M 4G subs
EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator, said LTE traffic volumes now surpassed 3G, and that it was the first operator in Europe to amass more than 10 million 4G subscribers.Last month the company...
View ArticleVodafone finds nearly half of UK businesses have no plans for 4G
A survey of British businesses, commissioned by Vodafone UK, found nearly two-thirds do not have 4G, while 41 per cent said they had no plans to adopt the technology.Phil Mottram, enterprise director...
View ArticleTurkey postpones 4G auction in wake of President’s call for 5G
Turkey’s Ministry of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications announced that the country’s 4G auction will take place on 26 August, three months later than the Information and Communication...
View ArticleWicab chief says mobile can help blind people ‘see’
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Robert Beckman, CEO of medical firm Wicab, is looking to mobile and wireless technologies to improve the company’s first-generation ‘BrainPort V100’ device, which is designed to help...
View ArticleSamsung wins some ground in US patent dispute with Apple
A US appeals court in Washington DC ruled that around 40 per cent of the $930 million in damages that Samsung was ordered to pay Apple for patent infringements – which stemmed from a 2012 ruling –...
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