TEANECK, N.J., Feb. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Cognizant (CTSH) today announced that market intelligence and advisory services firm IDC has named it a leader in the new report, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Internet of Things Consulting and Systems Integration Services 2016 Vendor Analysis (doc #US41880716, November 2016). View photos The IDC MarketScape report assesses 15 major …
Though consumer applications of the Internet of Things gets most of the headlines, its application in industry could have some of the most far-reaching effects. Because of this, the German government’s Industry 4.0 initiative is designed to connect the government, academia and industry through the process of industry’s IoT transformation via digitalization. China has a …
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Reuters/Jacky Naegelen Starbucks is putting its own spin on the virtual assistant. The popular coffee franchise has rolled out a Siri-like assistant app for mobile that lets you skip baristas and place orders by chatting or speaking directly to your phone. The feature essentially works as an extension of the Mobile and Pay functionality Starbucks …
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Amazon is great at giving away free stuff. One look at the Amazon Prime benefits list will tell you that. Even with their cloud infrastructure initiative, Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers free tiers with nearly every major product. And now, Amazon Alexa Voice Service APIs can be used by developers to integrate the smart voice …
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Illustration by The Project Twins Out of town for the US 4 July holiday, Kyle Turner got news that no lab manager wants to hear: his freezer was dying. “I was in western Massachusetts and getting these alerts on my phone,” says Turner, who manages an evolutionary-biology laboratory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Freezers …
MADISON, Wis. – Lack of security and fragmentation are often cited as basic reasons why the Internet of Things market has been slow to catch fire. By offering updates to its own IoT platform called IMPACT, unveiled last June, Nokia hopes to provide service providers, enterprises and governments with pre-integrated applications that help alleviate customers’ …
“It can be overwhelming to think of the Industrial Internet of Things as an all-encompassing solution,” says Greg Giles, executive director of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Argonaut for RedViking. “So what a lot of our customers do is find a system that’s going to provide them with new functionality to solve one particular problem—perhaps …
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If you think Americans have a love affair with cars now, just wait until people begin to treat them not merely as a means of transportation but as smartphones on wheels — or robot servants. Automobiles are more wired than ever. But experts say the late-model cars on the road today are just a precursor …
I don’t need the remote control. When I want to turn on the TV, pause a movie or change the volume, I can just say the magic words aloud. It wasn’t particularly easy to set up, and it didn’t come free — you’ll need a lot of patience and one of a specific set of …
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It is now obvious that Samsung is working on an AI Assistant known as Bixby and this digital assistant will debut with the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in late March. The Bixby AI Assistant is basically Samsung’s approach to digital voice assistants’ technology like Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. With …
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