Finance & Banking

Access Evolution

Private Cellular Networks to Generate Over US$64 Billion in Equipment Revenues by 2030

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AI, Analytics & Automation

Know-it-all AI is reading nonstop (and filing) the entire contents of the World Wide Web

Security

Online Threats Retain Sky-High Levels as Pandemic-induced Cyberattacks Persist

Emerging Tech

Blockchain solutions will continue to see robust investments: IDC

Security

Ongoing Demand Will Drive Solid Growth for Security Products and Services, According to New IDC Spending Guide

Emerging Tech

Banqsoft acquires Concent to expand and broaden its market position

Digital Platforms & Services

Standard Chartered Bank partners with Microsoft to become a cloud-first bank

Coronavirus

O2 backs campaign to support front-line customer service workers

Mobile

GSMA and World Food Programme push mobile financial services to bolster humanitarian assistance

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Digital Platforms & Services

Will a public floatation make Ant hit the deck?

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Security

European court strikes-down EU/US electronic data transfer agreement

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Digital Platforms & Services

Call-centres in meltdown as Covid-19 proves the last straw for old and failing systems

Edge

So what’s Ericsson’s edge strategy now?

5G

What’s up with… Samsung, Nokia, Telefónica, Swisscom

Mobile

Coming out of lockdown: the Afterbanking Observatory has analysed the impacts of the crisis on French consumer habits and payment practices

Colt Technology Services (picture courtesy of Colt)

SD-WAN

Colt pushes the multi-cloud single connection

5G

5G mMTC will be the Business Game Changer for Manufacturing, Healthcare, Transportation, Farming, and Smart Cities

Credit: Nokia

5G

Mobile operators fall short in enterprise 5G considerations

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Cloud

Europe readies its ‘Gaia-X’ cloud platform to take on the US hyperscalers

Finance & Banking

Orange opens two new Orange Money remittance corridors from France to Burkina Faso and Morocco

AI & ML

IDC Introduces an Interoperable Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure Stacks and Assesses the AI Infrastructure Stacks Currently on the Market

Work from home/remote desktop

O2 weighs in on the flexible future of work and employee reluctance to give up home working

Coronavirus

COVID-19 will drive global contactless payment card issuance above the 2 billion mark in 2020

OSS/BSS

Netcracker Offers AI-Driven Digital BSS/OSS on Microsoft Azure