Microsoft announced its acquisition of Wand Labs, a messaging app company that develops natural language and chat bot technology. Microsoft plans to use the capabilities gained from the acquisition to push forward its conversation-as-a-platform services. Conversation-as-a-platform enables buyers and sellers to have new, faster, more practical, personal methods to communicate with …
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World’s first cellular NB-IoT module improves global connectivity with over 10 years’ battery life for IoT applications
u-blox SARA-N2 Narrowband IoT module optimized for applications that need to securely communicate small amounts of data over long periods. Thalwil, Switzerland – June 27, 2016 – u-blox (SIX:UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced forthcoming availability of its SARA-N2 Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) module, …
Read More »Orange Money Announces Money Transfers Enabled to 3 Nations in Africa and Mainland France
Orange Money (www.OrangeMoney.Orange.fr) is available in Metropolitan France. This service is offered to Orange mobile subscribers(1) in France and enables them to transfer money via their mobile to other Orange Money customers in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, and within Metropolitan France. An offer that improves contact between Orange customers in …
Read More »Walmart Has Free WiFi But Why Not Free In-Flight Connectivity?
First, the huge challenge and difficulty of aircraft antennae installation is high. Second, Ka-band and HTS are said to be cost-effective for satellite operators for enabling Internet while in flight to flyers. The first issue is slowly being improved, but the second just is not realistic…yet. It is not even …
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