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The Brexit vote’s impact on investment into UK technology start-ups is an important litmus test for broader implications for the UK economy. The UK’s technology sector is a huge driver of growth, performing markedly above the broader economy and with rapid job creation.

This market analysis research provides market sizing, segmentation, and forecasts for the video conferencing endpoints and infrastructure market in EMEA. Country/sub-region breakouts are provided for the UK, Germany, France, Benelux, Nordics, Spain, Italy, Rest of Europe, and Middle East and Africa regions. The study also provides market shares for...

Globally, trains are one of the most popular modes of transport and users of high-speed rails demand reliable and secure broadband Internet access. Two of the world's top high-speed rail networks, one in Europe and one in Japan, now offer Internet access, and a case study of each is provided in this study. Trains require a combination of technologi...

On 5 April 2016, The Norwegian Computer Society hosted an evening event in Oslo on smart cities. Guro Røed of Link Mobility and the Mobile Strategy Working Group of the Norwegian Computer Society kicked off the event.

Cisco has moved to snap up privately held Jasper Technologies with a proposed acquisition of $1.4 billion, which is believed to be as much as 20 times the company's annual revenue in 2015. Describing the move as a huge step forward for Cisco, Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President Internet of Things (IoT), said the company would now be able to offer...

When Nokia announced its acquisition of rival network equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) in April 2015, the long-anticipated move was seen as a necessary response to the market dominance of Ericsson and fierce price competition from Huawei. Since then, Ericsson has teamed up with Cisco in a global strategic partnership that appears as committed ...

Low power wide area networks (LPWAN) which have low data rate are designed to support millions of devices that generate small volumes of data and require extended range and energy efficient networks. The LPWAN space is highly contested between proprietary solutions in licence-free spectrum and mobile operators' alternatives based on emerging long-t...

The research provides an overview of key mobile and fixed communications developments by major European mobile operators in Q3 2015. It covers both qualitative (product launches, infrastructure development, partnerships/alliances, M&A activity, key client wins, change in personnel) and quantitative (mobile and fixed broadband subscribers, mobile AR...

In November 2015, MasterCard announced its partnership with several hardware vendors to enable payment functionality in Internet-connected everyday objects such as wearable bands, rings, key fobs, and clothing. Connected objects are transforming all aspects of everyday life.