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Ford Invests in Argo AI, a New Artificial Intelligence Company, in Drive for Autonomous Vehicle Leadership

  • Ford is investing $1 billion during the next five years in Argo AI, combining Ford’s autonomous vehicle development expertise with Argo AI’s robotics experience and startup speed on artificial intelligence software – all to further advance autonomous vehicles
  • Founded by former Google and Uber leaders, Argo AI will include roboticists and engineers from inside and outside of Ford working to develop a new software platform for Ford’s fully autonomous vehicle coming in 2021; through their equity participati

DuPont to showcase new protective garment against electric arc flash at Middle East Electricity

DuPont™ Nomex® garments premiere choice for Utilities sector

DuPont, a leading innovation and market-driven science company, is set to participate in the upcoming Middle East Electricity show to be held from February 14 to 16, 2017 at the Dubai World Trade Center. During the world's leading power event featuring power generation, lighting, and renewable and nuclear energy, DuPont will focus on showcasing its new Nomex® garment that protects users from electric arc flash.

Ericsson at Mobile World Congress 2017: demonstrating how the digital world has no limits

Ericsson is demonstrating its latest innovative solutions at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 from February 27th to March 2nd in Barcelona, Spain with special focus on 5G, platforms and services for IT, Cloud, Networks, TV & Media, connected solutions for industries and the Internet of Things.

Anything can happen on the digital frontier, a promising but undiscovered future. Ericsson is strongly present this year at MWC to succeed in this arena.

Alpha Data brings Global Village ticketing to the Cloud

Alpha Cloud now hosts pioneering destination’s E-Commerce website

Alpha Data, the UAE’s leading systems integrator and one of the longest-standing IT companies in the country, recently completed work on hosting the E-Commerce portal of Global Village, the region’s leading multicultural festival park, at its ‘Alpha Cloud’ Public Cloud Service.

JAGUAR LAND ROVER CUSTOMERS IMMERSE THEMSELVES IN VIRTUAL VEHICLES

The UK’s largest automotive manufacturer is pioneering a new way of buying cars across its global network, using Virtual Reality so that customers won’t need to wait for newly launched vehicles to arrive in their local showroom.

Jaguar Land Rover’s world-leading Virtual Reality Experience packs, now available in the Land Rover showrooms in Lebanon, for customers to immerse in each new vehicle the company launches.

Ericsson and Cisco to virtualize Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s core and IP network

  • Ericsson will lead the transformation program, having responsibility for not only building the infrastructure but ensuring the delivery of an end-to-end operational system
  • Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) aims to increase network agility, reduce opex and capex, deploy services faster, and improve customer experience
  • The project is the first major collaboration between Ericsson and Cisco on Telecom Cloud infrastructure and supports VHA’s core and IP network evolution towards

T-Mobile and Ericsson first in North America to demonstrate nearly 1 Gbps LTE over-the-air on commercially available network equipment and software

  • Demo conducted in T-Mobile’s Bellevue lab using commercially available LTE network equipment and software from Ericsson
  • The demo combined advanced 3CC Carrier Aggregation, 4x4 MIMO and 256 QAM functionality on the downlink
  • Together these latest and most advanced technologies improve network capacity and user experience, bringing the peak speeds of LTE to gigabit range ahead of 5G deployments

T-Mobile and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have