Provides customers with powerful, configurable, extensible, and field-ready IoT-enabled Asset Tracking solution. Particle, the edge-to-cloud IoT platform built to connect the unconnected, today announced its new Tracking System to provide organizations with the ability to track the locations of a wide variety of mobile assets with its powerful, configurable, extensible and field-ready solution. In a […]
Archives for April 2020
Covid-19 lockdown is changing how people listen to music on Spotify
Spotify is witnessing a change in how people are listening to the service as they stay home due to lockdown curbs to stem the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Morning routines have changed significantly. Every day now looks like the weekend” the music streaming major said in a letter to its shareholders. The company is […]
ETtech Top 5: Home delivery gets costlier, AIFs seek clarity & more
Dear readers, In a bid to conserve cash and cut ballooning losses, hyperlocal delivery companies are passing on additional delivery charges to customers. Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Doorstep delivery gets costlierMicro-delivery firms MilkBasket and Supr Daily have started levying a packaging charge and service fee. The move has been driven in part by increased investment to […]
E-commerce firms stick to MRP as offline stores charge extra: Survey
E-commerce platforms have fared better than offline stores in complying with rules limiting sale of products to their maximum retail price (MRP) during the past five-week period when India has been in mandatory lockdown, according to a survey. Conducted by community platform LocalCircles, the survey showed that 39% of respondents had at some point in […]
The Internet of Things Myth part 2: Technology fragmentation continues to delay adoption
By Matt Hatton, Founding Partner, Transforma Insights. The IoT lacks a commonly adopted standard for wide area narrowband connectivity, creating adoption delays. That’s one of the key findings from ‘The Internet of Things Myth’, from Matt Hatton and William Webb, published in April 2020. An earlier article on IoT Business News looked at the predictions […]
Mitigating the cyber risks of IoT and finding solutions
The last decade has seen unprecedented development of the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, enabled by new distributed network technologies. McKinsey estimates that by 2025, the world will own 50 billion networked devices, up 400% from 2010, and contributing US$11 trillion (€10 trillion) to economies. While this proliferation of IoT devices in recent years has […]
Google Cloud revenue surge defies coronavirus turbulence
Google Cloud has defied the current economic turbulence to experience a 52% year-on-year surge in revenue for the first quarter of 2020, despite its parent company Alphabet beginning to feel the effects. The company’s cloud business generated $2.78 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2020, representing a 52% year-on-year surge. This is in […]
Google makes Meet video conferencing free to all users
Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday said any user will soon be able to host free video conferences on Meet, turning its previously business-only tool into a bigger rival to Zoom and others battling for users during the coronavirus outbreak. Zoom, Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s Messenger introduced features this month to attract users as people barred from […]
Azure Files share snapshot management by Azure Backup is now generally available
Microsoft Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. For users of Azure Files, share snapshots have offered a read-only version of file shares from a previous point in time. Share snapshots are also incremental in nature, making their storage usage […]
Azure Arc now supports Red Hat customers
Microsoft has expanded Azure Arc‘s Linux and Kubernetes capabilities to allow Red Hat customers to manage OpenShift clusters and data services on Azure. The announcement came during the virtual Red Hat Summit where the open source giant unveiled a raft of new features for OpenShift and Kubernetes to help organisations develop and manage virtual machines, […]