A virtual forum called IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenComm 2013) will hold its third annual event from October 29 - 31. It will consist of sessions devoted to the development of next wave green communications and ...
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IT leaders at Computing's Big Data Summit 2013 yesterday agreed that social media analysis could benefit them internally as well as externally, and could be the next step for them in order to get the most out of their big data tools. Tony ...
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Mobile phone operators will make more revenue from data use than voice calls by 2018, according to a new report from mobile operator body GSMA. The report comes as Mobile World Congress (MWC), The GSMA's annual mobile device convention, ...
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips. The ...
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Software is the driving force behind the “Internet of everything” says Tyson Tuttle, president and CEO, Silicon Laboratories. The dramatic growth of the Internet over the last 30 years has surpassed the estimates of even ...
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Broadband speeds in the UK have more than doubled over the past four years as a result of the roll-out of superfast networks. A report published by Ofcom today (15 August 2012) claimed the average download speed reached 9Mbps in May 2012, ...
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The European Commission (EC) has announced funding for IT research totaling almost €1.5bn. The cash is part of a larger €8.1bn pot the EC plans to invest in various research projects proposed by businesses and organisations ...
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Paradox Engineering SA and Streetlight.Vision will have agreed to develop new Smart City solutions with Smart Streetlight management. These solutions will use the 'internet of thing' approach to enable municipalities to monitor all objects ...
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Business reaction to DCMS announcement Local government reaction to DCMS announcement Consultation could hold back broadband roll-out The broadband industry has said goodbye to Jeremy Hunt as he takes Andrew Lansley's old job as secretary ...
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The “Industrial Internet” (or Internet of Things) has the potential to add $10-15 trillion to global GDP by 2030 and reduce billions of dollars worth of waste across major industries such as healthcare, energy and ...
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Cisco plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. The company will build up its managed services and consulting services, ...
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Carbon reduction management agent partners with PassivSystems at launch of the UK's largest ever trial of home energy management systems and solar PV. Climate Energy has today launched SmartHomes2020, the largest trial of home energy ...
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The Weightless wireless standard has this week won the backing by a number of UK companies to try and establish it as the way forward for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. ARM, Vodafone-owned Cable and Wireless Worldwide (C&WW) and ...
Tags: ARM, M2M communications, C&WW, CSR, special interest group
In the last quarter, LED-based sales at Philips were 24% of total lighting sales. Also, the company has published a paper with Cisco that discusses connected public LED lighting in cities. Philips' ...
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UK cities and urban areas are being asked by the government to demonstrate how they could become the city of tomorrow in using technology to integrate infrastructure. The future cities demonstrator project will see 20 local governments ...
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