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IoT

Internet of Things behind the scenes

IoT has become “the now big thing” in the smart city ecosystem. The Internet of Things started from M2M, and it has been adopted in a widespread manner by companies involved in the deployment of infrastructure and services for connected cities. Companies like Vodafone and Telefónica have been working for years in the Machine to…
Ericsson mobility report

Ericsson Mobility Report

Advanced mobile technology will be globally ubiquitous by 2020 with 70 percent of people using smartphones and 90 percent covered by mobile broadband networks • Smartphone subscriptions will more than double by 2020, reaching 6.1 billion. Almost 80% of these new subscriptions will come from Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. By 2020 80 percent…
Cities with WiFi

How to Develop Connected, Profitable Smart Cities with WiFi

No city can be truly Smart, if it is not efficiently connected. Wireless networks and accessible high-speed Internet connections in a city usually result in a win-win scenario for its residents, companies and institutions. But what are the best ways to implement these strategies? The staff at Yadwire* share their thoughts on the matter.
Cutured neurons

A Technology Top 10 to keep changing the world

As it does every year, the MIT Technology Review magazine (belonging to the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has chosen those emerging technologies with the potential for disruptive change in a few years.
Toni Mascaró

Interview with Toni Mascaró

A 42-year-old businessman from Barcelona, Toni Mascaró has a mind that never stops racing. After a long career as a specialist businessman in new technologies and online marketing, he is currently the Chief Executive Officer at e.mascaró, one of the most successful and innovative companies in e-business applied to tourism.
servers

Smart Cities in the age of “the cloud”

In the last months, large companies such as Google, Amazon or Microsoft have significantly shifted their businesses towards the cloud. By doing so, they confirmed a currently existing strategy or else defined new company policies
Cisco Visual Networking Index

Cisco VNI Mobile Forecast Projects Nearly 10-fold Global Mobile Data Traffic Growth by 2019

Smart Connections Will Account for 97 Percent of Global Mobile Traffic by 2019 According to the latest annual update of the Cisco® Visual Networking Index™ (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2014 to 2019, the ongoing adoption of more powerful mobile devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections combined with broader access to faster cellular networks…
Stephen Brobst

Teradata Executive Stephen Brobst Named One of Top Four Chief Technology Officers in US

Teradata thought leader, database educator rises in ExecRank list Teradata, the big data analytics and marketing applications company, announced today that Stephen Brobst, Teradata Chief Technology Officer, has been selected by ExecRank as the number four U.S. chief technology officer (CTO) for 2014. ExecRank screened over 2,500 Chief Technology Officers from among more than 10,000…
Fabien Girardin

Interview with Fabien Girardin

“A Smart City handles a huge amount of data, but how to relate them to each other is still to be determined” “We work to turn these non-related data into value. Doubt is the starting point, but as a means to state whether something is good or bad” Fabien Girardin -a Swiss engineer and researcher…
Watson Analytics

Introducing Powerful Analytics for Everyone

Watson Analytics is a breakthrough natural language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses Making its biggest announcement in a decade as leader in analytics, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced Watson Analytics, a breakthrough natural language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and…

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