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How are new opportunities to create and share information shaping the digital transformation of the agriculture and food system, and thus potentially fostering its reorganisation? This report focuses on cross-border trade aspects along the global agriculture and food value chain, and looks at how changes brought about by digital technologies can influence who participates in the value chain,…

With the Mobile World Congress 2019 show only weeks away, many handset vendors will release details of their first 5G smartphones. Conversely, most operators are only just embarking upon roll out of their 5G services in each region. So is the industry truly ready for 5G, or are those early adopters going to be disappointed?

Telecommunications providers have been quick to extol the…

Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 375.4 million units during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), down 4.9% year over year and the fifth consecutive quarter of decline. The challenging holiday quarter closes out the worst year ever for smartphone shipments with global smartphone volumes declining 4.1% in 2018 with a total of 1.4 billion units shipped for the full year.

With…

Of the four global leaders in the 5G, including China, South Korea and Japan, it is the US that is leading at the moment, according to ABI Research.

The researcher attributes this lead due to a number of conditions including market size, the financial health of mobile service providers (MSPs) or operators, and the forward-looking moves of the US regulator – the Federal Communications…

The Port of Marseille-Fos, France's main trade seaport, has announced a new project based around the innovative concept of the maritime data hub.

The port plans to construct new subsea cable landing infrastructure that will provide a plug-and-play interface for subsea cables passing through the Marseilles area.

The project is aimed at transform the port into a global digital…