Intel digs deep into wallet to buy its way into AI game
By: Jamie Davies Virtual reality may well have been capturing the imagination of the industry in recent months, but Intel’s $400 million of AI start-up Nervana highlights it’s not all fun and games, reports Telecoms.com. Having set its position as a leader in the data centre market and then largely missed out on the smartphone […]
Apple gives Siri an AI facelift
By: Jamie Davies Apple has continued its journey into the world of artificial intelligence through the $200 million acquisition of machine learning start-up Turi, according to Geekwire. The deal has not been explicitly confirmed by the team at Apple, though it does back up claims from CEO Tim Cook the company is extending its footprint […]
Uber backs up self-driving car moves with new mapping tech
By: Jamie Davies Uber has announced plans to ‘double-down’ its investments in digital mapping technologies to decrease its reliance on external sources and create a route into the autonomous vehicles sub-sector, reports Telecoms.com. The move comes after the team announced a $3.5 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, though possibly wouldn’t come as […]
AWS, Microsoft, Google and IBM continue cloud market dominance
By: Jamie Davies New research from Synergy states while the cloud market is growing at a healthy rate quarter-by-quarter, the four dominate cloud brands are continuing to pull away from the pack, controlled more market share month-by-month, . Data from Synergy Research claims the four companies now collectively control more than 50% of worldwide cloud […]
Case study: IoT lighting system cuts energy costs, improves productivity
By: Michelle Davidson You’d think that with a 3-year-old building, its fixtures and systems would be among the best on the market. Not necessarily so. As Atlas Global Solutions found out after conducting an energy audit of a relatively new manufacturing facility, the light fixtures were costing them more than aging manufacturing equipment—the focus of […]
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Next-Gen AX Auditing; RV manufacturer AX win; Field Service for GP; AI for Advertising
By: Linda Rosencrance Arbela Technologies Unveils Next-Gen Dynamics AX Auditing Solution Consulting services company Arbela Technologies has rolled out Arbela Auditing and Security Manager (ASM) 4.0 for Microsoft Dynamics AX. The latest version simplifies and automates critical aspects of auditing within Dynamics AX so organizations can better mitigate risk as well as save time and […]
7 Questions for Microsoft’s New Channel Chief
By: Scott Bekker Gavriella Schuster was named the corporate vice president for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group (WPG) on Thursday, putting her in charge of coordinating Microsoft’s channel efforts across all customer segments and country subsidiaries. RCP editors Scott Bekker, Barb Levisay and Gladys Rama caught up with Schuster for a Q&A about her plans […]
Microsoft launches Spark for Azure HDInsight and pushes into consumer AI
By: Jamie Davies Almost 12 months after releasing the public preview of Spark for Azure HDInsight Microsoft has announced general availability of the proposition to the industry, as well as extending Cortana’s offering to the Xbox. Making the announcement on the Azure blog, Oliver Chiu, Product Marketing Manager for Hadoop/Big Data and Data Warehousing, outlined […]
Microsoft Announces 2016 Partner of the Year Winners and Finalists
By: Linda Rosencrance Microsoft this week announced the winners and finalists of the Microsoft 2016 Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards recognize top Microsoft partners demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. This year, Microsoft acknowledged partners in 37 categories in each of the core partner competencies, […]
Intel continues IoT innovation through Itseez acquisition
By: Jamie Davies Intel has continued its strides into the IoT market through the acquisition of Itseez, a computer vision and machine learning company. Itseez, which was founded by two former Intel employees, specializes in computer vision algorithms and implementations, which can be used for a number of different applications, including autonomous driving, digital security […]