Borqs, the company which develops customisable software and hardware solutions for IoT, has today raised $10 million in its fresh round of funding. The investment was led by Qualcomm Ventures and Accel Partners India, valuing the company at $303 million. BORQS primarily designs, develops and provides turnkey solutions across device form factors from Smart Phones, Tablets, Smart […]
Name a U.S. hot spot for tech innovation. The first name on your lips probably isn’t Illinois, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, but it’s time to emancipate yourself from that skepticism. This is, after all, the land that helped invent plasma displays, graphical web browsers and the cell phones that most of us clutch every
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Can anything stop the semiconductor industry? The high-flying industry segment has come roaring back in recent years thanks to rising demand, and a vast new world of interconnected devices better known as the Internet of Things. And with other growing semiconductor avenues—such as in cars, robots, and a variety of sensors—taking off in the coming
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As an imaginative entrepreneur, David-Pierre Jalicon envisions our future homes embedded with Internet of Things technologies micromanaging every aspect of our lives. In the upcoming Fourth Industrial Revolution, he says, “things will be more integrated and interconnected” through industrial convergence. As all disciplines, economies and industries become fused and physical, digital and biological boundaries become
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Joe Sheridan, Corporate Director of IT and CIO, Soave Enterprise Informational technology is a massively evolving and dynamic sector. Technology has permeated to every strata of the society and is playing pivotal role in shaping social dynamics. The demand for quick and apt services has led to emergence of newer technologies with many tech innovators
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March 13, 2017 Dan Burger One way to understand the future of enterprise computing is to focus on data and systems integration. Not everyone likes that idea. There are strong feelings about certain platforms and processes. But as the IT-business alignment evolves, integration will prevail. The current emphasis, driven by data analysis and cognitive technology,
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A sensor, internet connection and the ability to communicate: These are the three ingredients that make up the Internet of Things technology. IOT is gaining rapid steam, with companies such as global communication giants, Ericsson and Cisco, making projections of as many of 50 billion devices connected by IOT by 2020. While estimations vary to
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The growth of the Internet of Things is only exacerbating the dangers of buying technology without a security-first approach. Photo: iStockphoto/Getty Images By Andrea M. Matwyshyn Updated March 12, 2017 11:06 p.m. ET 0 COMMENTS Companies are expected to spend more than $3 trillion on workplace technology this year, buying everything from traditional servers to
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AUSTIN—South By Southwest’s most overdressed speaker, like many others, came to talk shop about the internet. But Vint Cerf was better positioned than anybody else here for bandwidth banter: He co-wrote the internet’s core TCP/IP standard. The chief internet evangelist for Google (GOOG, GOOGL) made his first SXSW appearance as he does others: nattily attired
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In a world where tool wear and replacement is commonplace, the machine tooling is a prime candidate for the predictive maintenance that can be leveraged with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). “We already see numerous examples of predictive maintenance. You can really foresee online if something’s going to change rapidly, and you can react,”
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