By: Thomas Board, Pipeline

As we pass the halfway point of 2023, we’re focusing on breaking news in the IoT and the Device Revolution space as per this month’s theme. There’s also a plethora of other exciting news we have covered across the technology industry here at Pipeline. Peachtree Corners and Audi have advanced cellular vehicle-to-everything practical deployment pathways. Huawei has helped nature conservation experts by using AI to identify jaguars in Southeast Mexico. Salesforce is using Marketing GPT to automatically generate personalized emails, smarter audience segments, and marketing journeys. And, Intelsat is helping Japanese Airline passengers to stay connected during flights with their 2Ku inflight connectivity solution.

This month’s top industry news stories are highlighted below. To view current breaking news, visit Pipeline’s News Center or subscribe to receive our telecom industry news summary.

IoT & Device Revolution News

In IoT & Device Revolution News, Comtech and E-Space joined forces to collaborate, develop, and deploy innovative space-based communications solutions and IoT services to support predominantly government and targeted commercial customers. Meanwhile, Micron has released its new SSD known as the Crucial Pro Series, featuring memory and storage products designed for anyone who may benefit from a robust, high-performance computing experience. The new series offers heat spreaders, providing out-of-the-box performance to improve system speed, bandwidth, and responsiveness. Also, ThinPrint has launched ThinPrint 13—the latest version of its ThinPrint Engine solution—the company’s on-premise and private cloud print management software for remote and virtual desktop environments.

Peachtree Corners, one of America's first smart cities powered by real-world connected infrastructure, and Audi of America have collaborated to advance cellular vehicle-to-everything practical deployment pathways as part of the city’s Curiosity Lab ecosystem. In other news, ResGreen Group has signed a contract with a top automotive supplier to manufacture, integrate, and install its BigBuddy AGV and BotWay traffic management software. BigBuddy will deliver full pods on a customized load-handling frame from an assembly line station to the staging area. It will then return an empty pod to the station.

Cloud News

In Cloud News, Catapult has launched their new Pro Video Suite. This latest update includes new time-saving automations, improved workflows, smarter presentation tools, and faster calculation capabilities, providing a cloud-based publishing and sharing platform where presentations and insights can be distributed across sport teams’ departments from any location. Alongside this, Protection Platform provider launched the Wiz Integration Platform. WIN provides a breadth of bi-directional security integrations that enable joint customers to easily share security findings and ultimately improve their cloud security posture, boost ROI, and drive efficiency.

AI & Analytics News

AI & Analytics News begins with a more outdoorsy theme than usual as a team of nature conservation experts have recently stated that with the help of Huawei Cloud and artificial intelligence, they have identified at least five jaguars in a nature reserve in Dzilam, Yucatan, in Southeast Mexico. Alongside this, using budget-friendly OTT offerings and AI solutions, StreamViral is catering to diverse sports and maximizing revenue share, seamlessly integrating with StreamViral's specialized OTT platform to provide a comprehensive and affordable broadcasting experience.

Tech giant Salesforce's latest generative AI product offerings, Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT, enable marketers to automatically generate personalized emails, smarter audience segments, and marketing journeys. On the subject of AI chatbots, Azure Government offers cloud solutions to U.S. government agencies, and marks the first such effort by a major company to make the chatbot technology available to governments.

5G & Network News

In 5G & Network News, every major industry in Australia and New Zealand, from transport to construction and agriculture, will benefit from the positioning and navigation advantages offered by the new Southern Positioning Augmentation