Qualcomm and Qt team up to accelerate development for IoT devices
Chip company Qualcomm and Qt Group, provider of frameworks for creating GUIs, are broadening their existing partnership. By integrating Qt's multi-platform development tools with Qualcomm's processors, they aim to shorten the time-to-market for IoT devices.
The collaboration should make it easie... Read more
Fermyon: What’s Up With Wasm?
Wasm is what’s up. In terms of the hot technologies discussed at any of the major enterprise IT shows being staged this year, WebAssembly (often written as Wasm and typically pronounced ‘wass-em’ in Europe and ‘wazzum’ in North America) has been bubbling up since it was conceived in 2015 ... Read more
Amazon invites developers to test its Sidewalk public IoT network
Sidewalk's low-cost, long-range IoT coverage now extends to more than 90% of the U.S. population.
This week Amazon announced that its Sidewalk community IoT network was open to developers and invited them to "build the next billion connected devices".
Amazon Sidewalk is a secure, low-bandwidt... Read more
Addtech acquires MCS Europe
Addtech announced the acquisition of MCS Europe, a network product and IoT services provider based in Rotterdam and Mechelen.
MCS was founded in 1997. At present, the company has nearly 20 employees and about €7 million in annual sales. MCS specializes in network products and IoT services, in... Read more
Technology providers to follow top trends in 2022
Top modern trends are expected to drive technology providers in 2022 and beyond.
The technology industry has evolved dramatically over the last five years, with many new trends impacting companies large and small. Here are just a few of the top trends driving technology providers in 2022.
Big... Read more
‘Sigfox will be saved on the brink of bankruptcy’
Sigfox, an IoT network operator, appears to have found a buyer. The acquisition may save the organization from bankruptcy.
Sigfox operates an IoT network in more than 72 countries. In 2021, the organization found itself in dire straits. Debt has been piling up. Sigfox went into receivership in J... Read more
Portnox raises $22 million in its Series A investment to fund growth
Portnox, a network security startup, officially known as Access Layers, announced on Thursday that it has closed a $22-million funding round. The Series A investment was led by Elsewhere partners and is going to fuel growth plans by the startup.
Large companies can have corporate networks spanni... Read more
Samsara raises $805 million through IPO
Samsara announces its first IPO, and it is widely accepted, raising the company $805 million, pushing the valuation to over $12 billion.
Samsara Inc. is a cloud platform provider for IoT (internet of things) data. They recently announced an initial public offering and raised $805 million. This w... Read more
‘Mobile data traffic sees nearly 300-fold increase in ten years’
Worldwide mobile data traffic saw extreme growth over the past decade. Traffic has increased almost 300-fold since 2011.
This is what Ericsson states in a study. In the third quarter of 2021, the total volume of mobile data traffic worldwide reached 78 Exabytes. In the last quarter alone, mobile... Read more
Node-RED 2.0 is here, minus Node.js, with flow debugger and linter
Node-RED, the visual low-code programming tool for event-driven applications, has released version 2.0, which is lighter than its predecessor. Node-RED is built on Node.js and was developed to help combine hardware devices like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other APIs into apps for IoT (Internet of Th... Read more