Telstra has announced achieving the first live 5G connection in Australia using a commercial 5G chipset and a smartphone. Telstra utilised its 3.5GHz spectrum along with Ericsson’s 5G network software and Qualcomm’s 5G chipset and device, with Telstra network engineering executive Channa Seneviratne saying it takes 5G “from the lab into the street”. “Telstra’s strategic… Continue reading Telstra connects device to 5G with Ericsson and Qualcomm
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On a roof, inside London’s 5G mobile trial
It’s a bright Autumn morning and I’m standing on the roof of a medium-sized office block in central London, peering over the parapet at the people walking to work far below, unaware of the technology revolution taking place above their heads. This roof, along with a few others across the city, is home to a… Continue reading On a roof, inside London’s 5G mobile trial
Nuance spins off automotive segment into new publicly traded company
November has been a month of consolidation for voice recognition software maker Nuance. After selling its document imaging business for $400 million last week, Nuance just announced that it plans to spin off its automotive division into a separate, publicly traded company called Nuance Auto. Nuance said the move will help the company become more… Continue reading Nuance spins off automotive segment into new publicly traded company
BlackBerry is buying AI-powered security company Cylance for $1.4bn
BlackBerry is buying security company Cylance for $1.4bn, its largest acquisition to date Cylance uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict and prevent security threats to fixed endpoints by creating a lightweight software agent that sits on the device and can operate both online and offline. The company says its software requires a minimum… Continue reading BlackBerry is buying AI-powered security company Cylance for $1.4bn
Chip startup Efinix hopes to bootstrap AI efforts in IoT
The billions of devices that are expected to proliferate in the coming years at the “edge” of networks, such as autonomous vehicles and embedded Internet-of-Things, present manufacturers with a quandary: the manufacturers want to add smarts to the devices via machine learning, but they can’t know what exactly to add until they test their neural… Continue reading Chip startup Efinix hopes to bootstrap AI efforts in IoT
Qualcomm tops Q4 earnings targets, eyes 5G growth
Qualcomm published better-than-expected fourth quarter financial results on Wednesday. The semiconductor giant reported non-GAAP earnings of 90 cents per share on revenue of $5.8 billion, down two percent year over year. Wall Street was looking for earnings of 83 cents per share with $5.52 billion in revenue. Featured stories For the full fiscal year 2018,… Continue reading Qualcomm tops Q4 earnings targets, eyes 5G growth
Three UK to invest over £2bn in new 5G infrastructure
Mobile network operator Three UK has announced its commitment to pump more than £2bn into an infrastructure upgrade that will prepare it to deliver ‘market leading’ 5G services to customers in 2019. Those services will include wireless home broadband, via Three’s UK Broadband-operated subsidiary Relish. So far, Three has focused spending on the following areas:… Continue reading Three UK to invest over £2bn in new 5G infrastructure
SK Telecom trials self-driving cars for car sharing
SK Telecom, together with South Korea’s Transportation Ministry, has successfully trialled self-driving cars to answer customer calls, the company has said. Car-hailing firm Socar and Seoul National University also took part in the trial, which saw 100 participants call five self-driving cars using their smartphones and drive around 2.3 kilometres across Siheung City, Geonggi Province.… Continue reading SK Telecom trials self-driving cars for car sharing
Hyundai and Kia invest $250m in car-sharing Grab for EV adoption
Hyundai and Kia will invest $250 million into car sharing company Grab, aiming to push the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Southeast Asia. The funding follows Hyundai’s $25 million investment in the firm, announced in January. The three companies will launch a series of EV pilot projects in 2019, starting with Singapore. The EVs… Continue reading Hyundai and Kia invest $250m in car-sharing Grab for EV adoption
AI startup Flex Logix touts vastly higher performance than Nvidia
Featured stories Twenty-eight years ago, Geoff Tate helped create a chip company called Rambus. Its technology is in every DRAM memory part that ships today. But Tate thinks he’s now found a bigger market in artificial intelligence and machine learning. “I think neural networks is going to be a bigger market than what we did… Continue reading AI startup Flex Logix touts vastly higher performance than Nvidia