Verizon, Deloitte to co-develop edge computing apps
US telco Verizon Business has partnered with Deloitte in an effort to drive the rollout and adoption of mobile edge computing (MEC) services for enterprises.
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Google to become Jio Platforms second-largest investor
Reliance Industries has announced Google is the latest company to purchase a stake of its digital ventures business unit, paying $4.5 billion for the privilege of a 7.7% share.
Amazon attempts to capitalise on society’s anger, but leaves questions unanswered
The general public is angry with authority today and it appears Amazon is attempting to capitalise on this sentiment with a shallow PR stunt.
MediaTek defends itself after benchmark cheating accusations
After reports emerged suggesting MediaTek has been cheating the benchmarking system, the chipset manufacturer has vehemently defending its position.
TomTom to fill the Google mapping void for Huawei
Dutch navigation specialist TomTom has been announced as Huawei’s replacement for Google’s mapping expertise, following the firm’s entry on the US Entity List.
US bolsters AI ambitions with Open Government Data Act
President Trump has signed the Open Government Data Act into law, potentially unleashing a tsunami of data for AI applications to be trained with.
Feel like you’re being watched? Probably Google violating privacy rights
More often than not we’re writing positively about Google, but the ‘do no evil’ company has been caught out tracking smartphone locations even if the user has opted out.
Streaming approaches half of all music industry revenues
It might not be anywhere as near as data intensive as video, but the growing influence of music streaming is another part of the network congestion question which needs to be factored in.
WhatsApp launches desktop companion app
WhatsApp has introduced a desktop version of its smartphone application, which allows users to access and send messages to other users.
3 rents out ad space on laptop users’ screens
Mobile operators are getting ever more inventive about where they can sell advertising, with UK disruptor 3 this week opening up its mobile broadband dashboard to advertisers.
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Telco AI World Summit
- 02-04 November 2021
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MVNOs World & IoT World Connectivity Summit
- 02-03 November 2021
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Open RAN World
- 03-04 November 2021
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