Technology

NGMN Urges ICT Companies to Tackle Climate Change

ICT Companies should align investments with a 1.5°C trajectory in line with ITU L.1470

Frankfurt, Germany, April 26, 2021: The Next Generation Mobile Network Alliance is set to align the mobile communication sector with its entire supply chain - from component manufacturers to service providers - to address sustainability challenges faced by the ICT sector. Its Green Future Networks project, launched in November 2020, is the first NGMN initiative to provide detailed guidance regarding the environmental impacts of the ICT sector’s network part.

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:

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.

How Industry 4.0 and Automation Grew the World's Economy

The fourth industrial revolution is all about automation and the internet of things (IoT). Industry 4.0 drives innovation and introduces new ways for people to be more productive. It changes the scope of everything from the types of jobs available to how humans perform those tasks. 

The World Economic Forum found connectivity has reached a global scale. There are approximately 8.5 billion devices connected to the IOT. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need for automation and remote work, advancing the IOT faster than expected.

Redgate Reveals Financial Services Continue to Lead in the Race to Digital Transformation, Despite Global Pandemic

While 2020 was one of the most challenging years for every business, those in Financial Services and Insurance have fared better than most. This is the conclusion of a deeper sector analysis of the data behind Redgate’s 2021 State of Database DevOps Report, which looked at the challenges and opportunities that more than 3,000 developers, database specialists and IT professionals experience when adopting DevOps for application and database development.

USU Announces Industry’s First Solution to Analyze SAP® Digital Access Excluding Subsequent Documents

Software Asset Management (SAM) solution sharpens SAP Digital Access estimations to help cost-effective licensing decisions

Möglingen/Aachen, Germany – March 15, 2021 – USU Group, a leading provider of IT solutions and services, today announced powerful enhanced features for estimating SAP Digital Access in their flagship solution, USU Software Asset Management. It is the SAM industry’s first solution to fully analyze the potential pricing of the Digital Access licensing model and help SAP customers avoid unnecessary costs or liabilities.

UK Channel Optimistic About the Year Ahead

Channel Partners expect significant growth in 2021, despite pandemic

- 63% of respondents expect business growth of more than 5% in 2021
- 82% rate cybersecurity as the biggest growth prospect for the Channel
- More than half of respondents identify healthcare as the biggest vertical opportunity

Woking, UK: 22/02/21– European distributor, Nuvias Group, has announced findings from its partner research, revealing 2021’s biggest challenges and opportunities in the Channel:

The majority of Channel partner respondents expect:

- Significant growth in 2021
- Cybersecurity to be key to Channel growth
- Healthcare to be the biggest vertical opportunity

Appeal Court reaffirms P1 is 100% Norxe technology

Verdict from Appeal Court reaffirms P1 is 100% Norxe technology, in collaboration with strategic partners.

Fredrikstad District Court has wholly acquitted Norxe and its employees from all essential allegations in a judgement dated June 17th, 2019, following a lawsuit by Barco NV and Barco Fredrikstad AS against Norxe AS and 10 of its employees, The Court stated, amongst others, that:

“It has been clarified and acknowledged by the plaintiffs that P1 does not build on Barco technology. P1 is developed within a normal time period from scratch but with assistance from major suppliers like Philips and Texas Instruments.”