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by James E. Carroll Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has confirmed an order for several thousand of the Pacifica Hybrid minivans to be delivered to Waymo, the autonomous car subsidiary of Alphabet (Google’s parent company) this calendar year for deployment in several U.S. cities. Although the actual size of the order was not disclosed, it is […]
Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are now available in beta on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The Cloud TPUs are a family of Google-designed hardware accelerators that are optimized to speed up and scale up specific machine learning (ML) workloads programmed with TensorFlow. Google’s TPUs are built with four custom ASICs. Each Cloud TPU packs […]
Verizon completed its first over-the-air call on a 3GPP-compliant 5G New Radio (NR) system using licensed millimeter wave spectrum. The call, which was completed at Nokia’s facility in Murray Hill, New Jersey earlier this month, used Nokia’s 5G CloudRAN solution, which is comprised of the Nokia AirScale baseband and radio, AirFrame server, and AirScale Cloud […]
AT&T has added Accenture to its Microservices Supplier Program, which offers a new approach to delivering business functionality for software developers. Teams from Accenture and AT&T will develop microservices using scaled, agile and DevOps processes. The collaboration is expected to improve customer experiences, reduce support costs, and get services to market faster. AT&T describes microservices […]
Blue Danube Systems, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, introduced its 96-element, second-generation 5G-ready Massive MIMO system. Blue Danube’s the BeamCraft 600 series supports simultaneous beamforming over multiple frequency bands and across multiple cellular standards, allowing operators to deliver increased capacity through a single compact system. The company said its Massive MIMO can dynamically […]
Wix.com, which offers website services to small businesses, has chosen G Suite productivity and collaboration apps from Google as its exclusive cloud productivity offering for its users. Wix.com already uses the Google Cloud Platform, Google Maps API, YouTube and AdWords. Yuval Dvir, Head of Online Partnerships from Google Cloud added, “We are delighted to be […]
Coriant announced a partnership with Prodea to deliver IoT services. The companies will leverage Coriant’s new Multi-Sided Platform Partnership Program and Prodea’s new IoT Service X-Change platform and ecosystem tp accelerate global adoption of IoT services. Prodea’s IoT Service X-Change is a platform offering turnkey solutions and a framework for rapid IoT service creation and […]
Twilio, which enables developers to embed messaging, voice, and video capabilities directly into their software applications, reported Q4 2007 revenue of $115.2 million, up 41% from the fourth quarter of 2016 and 15% sequentially from the third quarter of 2017. There was a GAAP loss from operations of $20.2 million for the fourth quarter of […]
The Smart Africa Alliance (SAA) and Global Voice Group (GVG) have agreed to build an African Regional Traffic Exchange and Financial Settlement (ARTEF) Platform as part of the One Africa Network (OAN) initiative. The idea is to establish a harmonized African telecommunications framework that would give African countries the potential to make significant leaps in […]
Oracle announced plans to significantly expand its cloud infrastructure footprint by opening 12 new data center regions worldwide. The company seeks to increase the breadth and depth of Oracle Cloud services available across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The regional expansion will include locations in Asia including China, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and South […]
Orange is planning to launch a 5G millimeter wave trial in the second half of 2018 in Romania. Cisco and Samsung Electronics have been selected to participate. Orange is believed to be the first operator to conduct a multi-vendor 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) customer trial in Europe. Samsung will provide commercial 5G home routers […]
Citrix Systems has acquired Cedexis, a start-up that offers a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cedexis, which is based in Portland, Oregon, delivers real-time insight into network performance. This enables intelligent traffic steering for applications in multi-cloud […]
United Airlines awarded a contract to ViaSat to bring its latest generation in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) system to more than 70 aircraft, including at least 58 of United’s new Boeing 737MAX aircraft. Financial terms were not disclosed. The service will be delivered over Viasat’s advanced high-capacity Ka-band satellite system, which will include the ViaSat-1, […]
