Articles

In this issue:

• Payment security a major concern for online retail
• Edge and 5G will match the car and canned food revolutions, says Wind River’s CMO
• 5G and Industry 4.0: Where promise meets reality – and expectations are huge
• Businesses see a need for ethical, trusted AI - powered systems, but progress is patchy
• Robotic Process Automation auto-balancing feature to offer ‘hands-free’ bot workload management
• Company, Product & Market News

IDnow, a provider of identity verification as a service solutions, announces the artificial intelligence (AI) identity verification product AutoIdent Substantial .

Trend Micro Incorporated, the provider in cloud security, announced the availability of its Trend Micro Cloud One Application Security, a cloud native security solution for modern applications and APIs. Delivered as part of its platform, Cloud One Application Security provides code-level visibility and protection against the latest cyber threats.

Transforma Insights’ examination of real-world artificial intelligence (AI) deployments shows that most today are focused on mundane applications delivering cost savings, rather than being truly transformational. However, rapid pay-back and high levels of automation bode well for more widespread adoption in innovative fields. Matt Hatton, co-founder of Transforma Insights reports.

BriefCam, a provider of video content analytics and VIDEO SYNOPSIS solutions, reports that its advanced video analytics software platform will serve as the analytics engine for Verizon’s Intelligent Video solution. The monitoring service helps law enforcement and security teams keep public and private facilities secure with near real-time, actionable data from video content.

OneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd ., an associate of the Ping An Group, and China Merchants Group recently launched the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Port Logistics and Trade Facilitation Blockchain Platform Project for the ports Shekou and Shunde.

The City of London usually welcomes around 550,000 workers daily. Today that number is closer to 15,000. Why? Because the majority of City workers have to commute by public transportation train, tube or bus to get to work. In the past, says Bart Schouw, chief evangelist at Software AG, this meant sitting or more likely standing in a crowded, hot space with no air conditioning (and not enough people wearing masks).

As sure as the sun rises in the east, when money is actively exchanging hands, scammers will shortly get a whiff and show up to take what they can. And so, says Judd Bagley, VP of marketing at Everise, it is in the market for connected devices, where Statista reports that in 2019, new smart phone and smart home product revenues in the US alone combined to reach just under $160 billion (€135.23 billion) – which is more than the GDP of Ukraine.

Data-powered enterprises vastly outperform in financial parameters, achieving up to a 70% increase on the average revenue per employee. This is according to a new report by the Capgemini Research Institute entitled, “The data-powered enterprise: Why organisations must strengthen their data mastery.”

Quotevine announced a new partnership with independent vehicle leasing, outsourcing and fleet management provider, Zenith,. Together they aim to solve a longstanding terms management problem that has held back several leasing companies and Motor Manufacturers in the UK.

According to a Wireless Broadband Alliance cross-industry survey of service providers, equipment manufacturers and enterprises, almost four out of five (79%) have adopted or plan to adopt the WBA OpenRoaming standard.

London, UK. November 19th, 2020

WeKnow Media Ltd, the award organisers, are pleased to announce the Winners of the 2020 IoT Global Awards!

The drone industry has reached a tipping point. While China took an early lead in developing, manufacturing and distributing drones, increasing security concerns are forcing the industry to reflect on it’s current path.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the power to positively transform society and the environment, and to harness that power to its full potential organisations need to focus on addressing the ethical challenges.

Stradigi AI, a North American Artificial Intelligence software company, is pleased to announce that its cloud-based Kepler Platform is now offered on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and optimised to run within Azure.

What will the factory of the future be like? How will it be organised? To answer these and many other questions about the Industry 4.0 production model, all it takes is a trip to the FPT Industrial Driveline plant in Turin, dedicated to the production of transmissions and axles for heavy equipment.

Palo Alto Networks introduced what it says is the industry’s first 5G-native security offering, to secure networks, clouds and devices in the 5G world. This new offering reportedly enables service providers and enterprises to turn 5G networks into highly secure networks.

In 2017, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report which cited ‘Big Tech’ as a greater threat to banks than fintech. Three years later, says Eelco-Jan Boonstra, managing director of EMEA at Mambu, this continues to hold true as we’ve seen technology giants such as Google, Apple and Facebook move deeper into the world of finance.

BICS, an international communications enabler, has been selected by Talkdesk, the cloud contact centre for enterprises, to provide global coverage of Session Initial Protocol (SIP) Trunking and Cloud Numbers to Talkdesk’s customer base.

Druva Inc., a specialist in cloud data protection (CDP) and management, announced the results of the 2020 Value of Data Report. The report offers insights from 700 IT decision makers in the US and UK and underpins the importance of maximising the value of data as businesses navigate an unprecedented global event.

(Sponsored News) Since the online shopping boom a few years ago, physical stores have experienced unprecedented challenges with reducing in-store customers, decreasing profit margin and rising management costs. The ever-growing competition has put greater pressure on the retail industry, forcing retailers, as well as restaurant owners and hotel owners, to deliver a more satisfactory in-store experience to attract new and existing customers.

Transforma Insights unveils the results of its extensive analysis of the strategies of 12 IoT Application Enablement Platform providers.

A study of more than 3,500 senior managers and IT decision makers across the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, has identified a divide between companies that are using data to inform decisions throughout the pandemic, and those that are not.

According to WTO experts, platforms built on decentralised technologies can help world trade not only overcome the current crisis, but also accelerate market development while helping us better prepare for and manage the inevitable crises of the future. 

The term “big data” was first coined in the mid-noughties, yet even today 15 years later, enterprises are still struggling with what it means and how to use it to their competitive advantage says, George Frangou, founder & group CEO at Massive Analytic.

In the world of AI and machine learning, it’s common to hear fear-based statements about what the poor decisions unchecked algorithms might make.

What most people rarely hear about are the actual challenges that cause AI practitioners to worry.

FICO’s Chief Analytics Officer, Scott Zoldi sat down with Kate Crawford, a Distinguished Research Professor at NYU and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, to discuss how unconscious data bias and untrained data scientists poses risks to AI models and the trust we place in business decisions derived from them.

Why you should watch their candid conversation:

• How will data bias affect future decisions?
• How unconscious data bias and untrained data scientists poses risks to AI models
• How data bias and machine learning are remapping our society
• The real problems with AI that keep data scientists up at night
• What businesses and data scientists need to do to ensure ethical AI
• How to avoid introducing gender bias and other forms of bias into AI models

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C5 Capital USA LLC, a specialist venture capital firm that invests in the secure data ecosystem, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and space has announced Rob Meyerson as its newest operating partner joining C5’s new Impact Partners Fund based in Washington DC.