April 2021

Nearly two thirds of UK enterprises have invested in improving digital customer communications during the pandemic

But over half believe their short-term fixes won’t be fit for the long term

Crawley, UK, April 21, 2021 – With most people locked down and relying on digital communications during the pandemic, around two thirds (64 per cent) of UK IT leaders questioned in a new survey reveal that their organization has made technology changes to improve digital interaction with customers. The same number of respondents (64 per cent) have made changes to handle greater volumes of interaction on their websites, social media and other digital channels. However, in each case more than half (56 per cent), expect to make additional investments to ensure those changes work in the long term.

Spectralink’s Versity 92 Wi-Fi smartphones wins two Red Dot awards for high design quality

Horsens, Denmark. April 21, 2021. Spectralink has been successful in the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2021. The international jury has awarded the Versity 92 Series the distinction “Red Dot”, which stands for high design quality. Versity 92 has won two Red Dot awards in the category of “Mobile Phones, Tablets and Wearables” for both its scanner and non-scanner designs. As one of the world’s largest design competitions, the sought-after distinction “Red Dot” has been the revered international seal of outstanding design quality. Past winners of this coveted design award include Apple iPhone and Google Pixel, and Spectralink is pleased to be recognized in an elite group for our smartphone outstanding design.

Cerillion gives CSPs a B2B boost with new product launch

London, 21st April 2021 – Cerillion (AIM: CER) today announced the general availability of Cerillion 21.1, a major new release of its pre-integrated BSS/OSS suite, designed to help Communications Services Providers (CSPs) maximise their potential in the burgeoning B2B market.

Building on more than two decades of experience supporting the full range of consumer and business communications services, Cerillion 21.1 brings together the best of both worlds with digital first service management, mass market process automation and enterprise-wide analytics. Product highlights include:

New Study: Majority of Websites Currently Fail to Meet User Experience Requirements in Google’s Forthcoming Core Web Vitals Update

San Mateo April 20, 2021 – New research suggests most websites that rank in Google’s top 20 search results do not currently pass the minimum requirements for a good page experience set out in the search engine’s new Core Web Vitals update which officially rolls out from mid-June [1]. 96% of sites tested in US desktop searches and more than 90% of those in mobile searches fail to meet Google’s three Core Web Vitals thresholds for good website performance and usability and risk their rankings being negatively impacted from June. Currently only the top 2 or 3 ranking websites in search results achieve the required “good” score in most of the Core Web Vitals metrics according to the analysis by Searchmetrics.

oneM2M launches new initiative to promote sustainability via IoT technologies and open-standard systems

Sophia Antipolis, France, 20 April 2021: The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) can add $14 trillion of economic value to the global economy by 2030 according to the World Economic Forum’s “Guidelines for Sustainability”. However, while technology driven change can be a tremendous driver for value creation, some of its side effects, including wasteful usage patterns and throwaway technology, can undermine total gains. This highlights why organizations need to factor first- and second-order sustainability principles in their technology and design choices.

6G to Consider Societal Requirements

First NGMN 6G White Paper Presents 6G Drivers and Vision

Frankfurt, Germany, April 19, 2021: Today, the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance publishes its first 6G White Paper focusing on the 6G Drivers and Vision. As a global organisation representing the entire value chain, NGMN is set to take the lead in providing impactful guidance for global 6G activities to respond to the needs of end users, societies, mobile network operators and the ecosystem as a whole.

New SQL Monitor release gives organizations control on-premises and cloud databases from a single global dashboard

Cambridge UK, Thursday, 15 April – To help organizations explore and manage the advantages the cloud provides, the latest release of Redgate’s popular database monitoring tool, SQL Monitor, now supports Amazon EC2 and RDS, and Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instances as well as on-premises SQL Server. A new global dashboard allows users to check the health of their entire SQL Server estate at a glance and pinpoint issues with individual servers and instances, wherever they are, however large the estate.

InCoax cracks European telco MDU broadband headache

The company will be highlighting the potential of fiber extension technology at Gigabit Access 2021

Lund, Sweden, 15 April 2021: The global pandemic has fuelled a huge growth in demand and placed additional stress on operators to deliver connectivity for Multi Dwelling Units (MDUs) across Europe, and at this year’s Gigabit Access, InCoax will discuss how reusing existing in-building infrastructure for broadband access can combat the connectivity complexities for residents and businesses.

Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 55 Integrates Viasat Eclypt Core Encrypted Internal Hard Drive to Protect Top Secret Data for the Defence Industry

BRACKNELL, UK and FARNBOROUGH, UK, April 14, 2021 – Panasonic today announced its modular TOUGHBOOK 55 notebook is now available for the Defence industry with an integrated Eclypt® Core Encrypted Internal Hard Drive from global communications company, Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT). The solid state self-encrypting hard drive is certified for use in the UK to secure Top Secret information and all security levels below, as well as certified for use by NATO and other European countries including Germany.

Kofax AP Agility Digitally Transforms Accounts Payable Processes

Next-Generation Accounts Payable Automation Solution Enables Resiliency and Agility

London, U.K. – April 13, 2021 – Kofax®, a leading supplier of Intelligent Automation software for digital workflow transformation, today announces the latest version of Kofax AP Agility®, a world-class artificial intelligence (AI) powered solution providing organisations with the most comprehensive capabilities in the market to digitally transform accounts payable processes.