Category: Artificial Intelligence Devices

July 28, 2020

Shelly Kramer

Futurum Tech Webcast

How Big Tech is Driving a Return to Work and How the World of Work Will Transform Along the Way — Futurum Tech Webcast

Companies like Cisco, Siemens, Salesforce, and HPE are among the many tech leaders driving a return to work, with safety of workers and the workplace top of mind. We explore some of those innovations in this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, along with key ways the world of work will need to transform moving forward.

Artificial Intelligence Devices, CIO Insights, Enterprise Applications

July 27, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Market Coverage

Apple Antitrust Probes Heat up 2020 for the iPhone Giant as it Faces Scrutiny in the EU and US

Unpacking the scrutiny on Apple’s App Store and Apple Pay business practices that have caught the ire of regulators, lawmakers, and other tech companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Of note, a third vulnerability for Apple, and an angle that US courts will be perhaps more eager to tackle than the previous two, is whether or not Apple’s business practices can be shown to have led to higher prices and fewer choices for consumers. This is a core litmus test for antitrust cases in the US, and this point should have Apple attorneys at least a little worried.

Artificial Intelligence Devices

July 27, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Market Coverage

Google $2.1 Billion Fitbit Acquisition Hits EU Snag

Fears about Google’s use of Fitbit data to potentially gain an unfair advertising advantage cause EU regulators to take a closer look at the potential anticompetitive effects of the deal. I don’t see much cause for alarm here, and here’s why.

Artificial Intelligence Devices

July 22, 2020

Daniel Newman

Market Coverage

Microsoft Outperforms For Its Fiscal Q4 Showing Tech Resiliency

Microsoft reported its first full quarter since the Covid-19 pandemic and the company overall delivered a solid performance once again.

Artificial Intelligence Devices

July 22, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Market Coverage

ICYMI: Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon Wear 4100+ Brings Significant Performance Improvements to Android Smartwatches

Performance improvements aside, I can’t help but sense that the android smartwatch ecosystem is being somewhat hamstrung by a lack of interest, perhaps from Google, to really focus on beating Apple at its own game.

Artificial Intelligence Devices, CIO Insights, Semiconductors

July 16, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Analyst Insight

ICYMI: 3GPP’s 5G NR Release 16’s 9 Most Critical Improvements to 5G

What we see with Release 16, in addition to improvements to previous fundamental standards, is a shift towards the next market for 5G technologies: industrial networks and applications. That is why, MIMO and IAB improvements aside, private networks, unlicensed spectrum, multi-TRP architecture, high-precision device positioning, efficient new power-saving protocols, and even multicasting between vehicles, constitute the lion’s share of projects in this release.

Artificial Intelligence Devices, CIO Insights

July 16, 2020

Shelly Kramer

Market Coverage

Amazon Web Services Increases Availability of AWS IoT SiteWise for Industrial Customers

Amazon recently announced that AWS IoT SiteWise will be available to all AWS customers in certain regions soon. SiteWise is a managed service that gathers and organizes data in a way that helps industrial customers make informed decisions when it comes to monitoring facility operations, making new applications, improving production, determining performance metrics, and more. We expect to be hearing much more about AWS IoT SiteWise in the months to come.

Artificial Intelligence Devices, CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

July 15, 2020

Fred McClimans

Futurum Tech Webcast

Future Proofing the Enterprise — Transforming Business Operations — Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Fred McClimans and Shelly Kramer explore the topic of future proofing the enterprise in ways that truly transform operations (think supply chain, data center operations, security operations and beyond) in order to make the business as a whole more resilient and more agile moving forward.

Artificial Intelligence Devices

June 29, 2020

Daniel Newman

Market Coverage

AWS Tackles Low Code/No Code With New Honeycode

AWS has launched its Honeycode platform to enable non-developers to build business applications with minimal code. The new offering diversifies AWS.

Artificial Intelligence Devices, CIO Insights, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations

June 25, 2020

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

New Research: RPA is Essential to Fulfilling Organization-wide Strategic Business Objectives

Futurum Research, in partnership with UiPath, completed a global research study of 500+ high-level business and technology executives directly responsible for the planning, management, and use of automation technologies to better comprehend the RPA journeys organizations must undertake to successfully achieve their strategic business objectives. Here’s what we found.

Artificial Intelligence Devices

June 24, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Market Coverage

Qualcomm’s Robotics RB5 Platform Brings Powerful AI-enabled 5G Connectivity to Industrial Robots, Drones, and the IIOT

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: QCOM) just announced its first-of-a-kind 5G Robotics RB5 platform. The natural successor to the successful (4G-based) Qualcomm® Robotics RB3 platform. As Qualcomm puts it, the Robotics RB5 platform aims to “empower developers and manufacturers to create the next generation of high-compute, low-power robots and drones for the consumer, enterprise, defense, industrial and professional service sectors.”