News tagged: Ford

30 March, 2020

Altruism or advertising? Treading a fine line on corporate COVID-19 support

WEEK IN TELCO IT – I get twitchy at times of national or international crisis when I hear companies telling us how much they are doing to support people who are truly suffering. It’s not that I wish they wouldn’t offer assistance – far from it, says Jeremy Cowan, I admire their altruism. I just don’t believe we all need to hear about it. I mean, last time you personally gave to charity did you feel the need to announce it on Twitter or Facebook? Thought not. That would be a sorry kind of virtue signalling. So why is it different for enterprises? (more…)

12 June, 2019

Digital transformation: PTC strokes new products and greets second year with partner Rockwell

The keynote address at PTC’s LiveWorx19 event in Boston, Massachusetts is always a tour de force by the company’s ebullient president & CEO, Jim Heppelmann, and today’s conference opening did not disappoint. (more…)

04 February, 2019

GSMA announces new developments for MWC19 Barcelona

The GSMA has announced further details for MWC19 Barcelona (formerly Mobile World Congress), including additional keynote speakers, participating companies, programmes and events. (more…)

30 April, 2018

How data (and buzzwords) can make money for your manufacturing business

The business landscape changes daily and with that comes new “buzzwords.” You know those ones that really bug you – those where you kind of know what they mean, but they can mean lots of things and different things to different people. (more…)

09 August, 2017

Mobile network operators come out fighting

There’s a groundswell of chatter and opinion-sharing about the pressures swirling around the network; perfect storm formations of connected things, smarter devices, and 5G mobile networks, writes Gabriele Di Piazza, the vice president of products and solutions for Telco NFV at VMware. For a long time, we’ve been able to feel 5G in the air. (more…)

03 January, 2017

Connected car service revenues expected to top $42 billion by 2022

Connected car services are driving recurring revenue growth and transforming the automobile industry. Revenues from connected car services are expected to top US$42 billion by 2022. (more…)

03 August, 2016

Three IoT lessons from the Softbank acquisition of ARM

The news that Softbank, one of Japan’s leading telecoms operators, has made a move to acquire ARM, one of the strongest technology companies to come out of Britain has shaken the world and come as a bit of a surprise. (more…)

03 August, 2016

Three IoT lessons from the Softbank acquisition of ARM

The news that Softbank, one of Japan’s leading telecoms operators, has made a move to acquire ARM, one of the strongest technology companies to come out of Britain has shaken the world and come as a bit of a surprise. (more…)

16 June, 2016

The white-box CPE: Separating myths from reality

In the world of customer premises equipment (CPE), the white-box is a new idea. It should then come as no surprise that misconceptions among operators and CSPs about what constitutes the white-box CPE are common. (more…)