West London-based colocation provider Virtus Data Centres is planning to build a server farm campus on a 50-acre freehold plot in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire that will house up to 75MW of IT capacity. The company, which is part of the ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, said that the project is necessary to ensure Virtus is … Leer más
As it looks to accelerate the footprint and supplier roster of its wholesale full-fibre-based gigabit broadband network across the UK, Nexfibre revealed it will invest £1bn in broadband infrastructure this year as part of plans to drive long-term competition in the fibre access market on a national scale. Nexfibre is the result of a £4.5bn investment … Leer más
Immersive technologies such as augmented, mixed and virtual reality are rapidly coalescing into a spatial computing ecosystem set to create a new world of work, but one key gating factor has been the lack of user-friendly devices. Aiming to amend this, Vodafone has introduced the HyperRealityHub, designed to shift the paradigm from bulkier extended reality … Leer más
Dell Technologies and Nokia have committed to each other’s expertise and services to advance open network architectures in the telecom ecosystem, and quickly scale modern telecom networks and private 5G use cases among businesses. As part of the agreement, including infrastructure services and private wireless connectivity, Nokia will adopt Dell as its preferred infrastructure partner … Leer más
Just over two years since the communications platform was acquired by Ericsson to establish a presence in the digital transformation communication platform as a service (CPaaS) arenas, Vonage is accelerating its business comms offer with a move into the world of application programming interfaces (APIs), launching what it said will be a global first-to-market service … Leer más
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has unveiled the next version of Google’s Gemini large language model (LLM). The new version of the LLM, formerly known as Bard, is Google’s latest attempt to swing the spotlight of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) away from rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT to the new technology it has developed. In a blog … Leer más
A satellite due for launch will track how much methane is being emitted by oil and gas facilities, aiming to encourage moves to reduce the amount of harmful gas emissions in the atmosphere, with some help from artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. The Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) satellite, MethaneSAT, aims to map, measure and track methane … Leer más
Having already established a 5G networks product portfolio, Samsung Electronics has completed open radio access network (Open RAN) conformance and interoperability testing for commercial-grade LTE and 5G NR radios for leading US operator Verizon’s network. It has also announced participation in the NTIA wireless innovation fund set to advance Open RAN interoperability, performance and security. … Leer más
The latest investigation of the US mobile device trade-in market by Assurant has found it gained fuel as businesses and consumers alike continued to face the harsh headwinds of economic slowdowns and cost-of-living crises in 2023, with record industry-wide highs in the value of the returns market. The Assurant 2023 Mobile trade-in and upgrade trends … Leer más
Only a small amount of people believe the tech sector is representative of the UK, according to research by the Institute of Coding (IoC). Asking more than 2,000 adults in the UK about tech and tech careers, with the help of TechUK, the IoC found only 21% of those asked think the technology industry reflects … Leer más