Skylo’s cutting-edge NTN connectivity enhances the Google Pixel 9 series, ensuring reliable emergency communication where terrestrial networks fail. For the first time, Pixel users can connect to emergency services via satellite. This collaborative innovation between Skylo and Google marks a new era in mobile connectivity, delivering essential support in remote areas.
Motorola and Google Cloud have announced a new multi-year partnership to integrate generative AI technology into Motorola phones, starting with the latest series of razr smartphones. The flagship models, including the motorola razr+/motorola razr 50 ultra, will feature Moto ai technology, which leverages Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, Gemini, and Imagen models. This technology aims to enhance the user experience by offering task completion, relevant suggestions, reminders, information summarization, and more.
Nokia has deepened its collaboration with Google Cloud to streamline the creation of 5G applications. Leveraging Google Cloud’s advanced AI tools, such as Vertex AI and Gemini 1.5 Pro, Nokia aims to enhance its Network as Code platform.
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH) and Google Cloud have announced an expansion of their strategic alliance, focusing on transforming Indosat into an AI-driven technology company. This partnership aims to leverage Indosat’s extensive network and data with Google Cloud’s advanced AI tools to enhance services for over 100 million customers and offer AI solutions for businesses across Indonesia.
Telefónica, a leading telecommunications operator, has sealed a fresh agreement with tech giant Google Cloud aimed at turbocharging Telefónica’s journey into cloud adoption and AI-driven innovation. The deal, which extends the strategic collaboration between the two entities for another three years, is poised to usher in a wave of advancements across various fronts.
Google Fiber (GFiber) is expanding its Nevada network to include the City of Las Vegas, following its initial foray into the state earlier this year. In February, Clark County approved a franchise agreement, facilitating GFiber’s network deployment in the region.
Google’s ambitious $1 billion investment, partnered with NEC, aims to redefine digital connectivity between the United States and Japan through two subsea cables. As part of the Japan Digitization Initiative, these advancements promise not only improved data routes, but also crucial geopolitical advantages.
In a strategic move to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption across its vast network, Orange has teamed up with Google Cloud to deploy AI solutions closer to its operations and customers. The collaboration, announced at Google’s Cloud Next ’24 event in Las Vegas, aims to leverage Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a fully managed hardware and software solution.
In an unexpected turn of events, Google’s Pixel smartphones are carving out a significant niche for themselves in Japan, a market traditionally dominated by local brands and, more recently, by Apple. Despite a general downturn in the Japanese mobile phone sector, Google has emerged as a notable exception, with its Pixel range securing a market share surpassing 10% by the end of the fourth quarter of 2023. This growth positions Google as the third-largest player in the market, right behind Sharp but ahead of several traditional and long-standing competitors.
Tech giant Google is set to pour $1 billion into the development of a new data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, signaling a robust commitment to expanding its technical infrastructure in the United Kingdom.