“Mama said there’ll be days like this,” says the 1960s hit song by the Shirelles — and for Amazon’s cloud service provider AWS, Tuesday (Dec. 7) was definitely one of those days. As news of the internet outages spread, reports of disruptions began to emerge,...
Business networks and communications are already moving to wireless networks and the cloud, and that will only increase as new applications for enterprise are built around the speed and capabilities of 5G. Börje Ekholm, CEO of Ericsson, outlined these developments Nov. 22 in a conference...
U.S. B2B technology channel revenue grew 4% year over year during the third quarter, according to The NPD Group’s B2B Distributor Track and Reseller Tracking Services. In the third quarter of 2020, the decline was 1% compared to the same quarter of 2019. Year to...
Less than two weeks after Facebook’s startling announcement that it was changing its name and focus to Meta, three heavyweights in the 5G space are piggybacking on the shift. Also see: Facebook Rebrands as Meta in Push to Align With Metaverse While many consumers and companies...
One of China’s biggest companies says it expects the government to allow the metaverse to operate in the country, assuming the companies behind it follow the rules. According to Reuters, Tencent Holdings, the social media giant that is China’s largest company by market value, discussed...
Meta, formerly Facebook, and Microsoft on Wednesday (Nov. 10) rolled out plans for the integration of Meta’s Workplace enterprise social network software suite and Microsoft Teams, which will give customers access to Workplace content in the Teams app, according to a CNBC report. The deal...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has concerns that a new 5G frequency band could cause interference between key safety devices on airplanes, prompting both Verizon and AT&T to postpone their plans to launch the speedy wireless technology until next year, according to reports Thursday (Nov....
Samsung SmartThings has become the latest manufacturer of smart home devices to incorporate the new connectivity protocol Matter, enabling users to control enabled devices using select Samsung products. With this announcement, Samsung SmartThings joins Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant and other manufacturers who will...
Fiserv, which provides payments and financial services technology, has rolled out a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, letting independent software vendors (ISVs) put software directly into Clover point-of-sale (POS) devices, according to a press release. The move will allow “ISV software users to be more nimble in...
