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Cities Cannot Be Reduced To Just Big Data And IoT: Smart City Lessons From Yinchuan, China
YINCHUAN – Cities are like Tolstoy’s families: each messed up in its own way. The new challenges urban conglomerates have to face and how to better address them were the main topics of discussion at theSmart City in Focus conference which took place in Yinchuan (China) a couple of weeks ago.If for Atlanta, Georgia, transportation and public safety are the top priorities to addr
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We’re Backing Bristol: Why Bristol is the city of the future
There are many reasons to celebrate Bristol. It's friendly, it's quirky; it has great shopping, scenery and a buzzing social scene.But, then, you could say that about many cities.One thing that really sets Bristol apart is that it is officially one of the UK's 'smartest' cities.We are said to be at the forefront of the digital revolution, with technology rapidly being developed to
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The end of apps: Conversational commerce begins deadly attack
Messenger is upping its chatbot game to allow in-app purchases of foreign products, encouraging users to stay in the Facebook ecosystem, never having to leave. WeChat is even further down that road. Is this the end of countless, niche apps?The end of apps is perhaps an overstatement, given Messenger and WeChat are themselves apps. But the migration towards hosting purchases from pa
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Good luck squeezing saturated market, Euro mobe firms, say Orange, Telefonica
Based profits on roaming charges? Too bad! Only the IoT-ist will surviveEurope's saturated mobile market is forcing operators to eye new routes to revenue in order to survive, big cheeses at Orange and Telefonica have said.Christian Maitre, CIO deputy of the Orange Group, and Juan José Hierro, head of Telefonica's newly created IoT unit were speaking to The Register at the TM Smar
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Teenage noughties protocol BitTorrent reinvents itself again
First the news, now enterprise techInterview In an age of on-demand Netflix content streaming, BitTorrent Inc – which developed and maintains the peer-to-peer protocol from the early 2000s – reminds many of us of its historic place in file-sharing rather than bringing to mind the modern software biz of the same name.In pre-YouTube days, BitTorrent accounted for 20 per cent of i
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TM Forum, QuEST Forum align to accelerate digital transformation
TM Forum has formed new strategic alliance with QuEST Forum to accelerate digital business transformation for communications service providers and technology suppliers, the company said. As the creators of TL 9000 quality management system, with performance benchmarking capabilities, QuEST Forum adds capabilities to TM Forum, focused on IT operations and management, customer exper
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Common platforms vital to avoid isolated smart cities
LIVE FROM TM FORUM SMART CITY: Keynote speakers at the second Smart City conference in Yinchuan, China, warned that in their rush to roll out services to boost efficiency and enhance engagement with citizens, authorities need to use common platforms to ensure interaction between cities.Jordi Puignero, secretary for ICT governance for Catalunya, said rapid advances in technology,
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TM Forum launches ‘Smart City InFocus’ event
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Leading the Global Transition to Smart Cities in China TM Forum’s “Smart City InFocus 2016: Yinchuan”
9 September 2016, Shenzhen, China – In partnership with the City of Yinchuan and ZTESoft, the three day TM Forum’s 2nd annual event, Smart City InFocus 2016, began yesterday. This year’s summit will revolve around the theme of "Smart City, Exciting Lives". The summit will be attended by more than 1000 people, who will join to share ideas in China's leading smart city.Attendee
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Bristol Is Open: Case Study of an Innovative Smart City
In May, ‘Bristol is Open’ was named as a leading smart city, just behind London, in Huawei UK’s Smart Cities Index. In the same month, Bristol is Open was also announced as Smart City Innovator of the Year by TM Forum’s Digital World Awards.Bristol is OpenThe project is a joint venture between the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council. Several other partners ar