PGi, the world's largest provider of collaboration solutions announced the launch of its mobile collaboration exchange. Particularly, it is the first-of-its-kind, leveraging its global conferencing and collaboration network to enable mobile operators to deliver a High Definition (HD) audio and video conferencing experience to their customers. This is possible through using existing investments in their LTE and VoLTE network infrastructure. 

Thomson Reuters today officially opens Thomson Reuters Lab in Singapore. The Lab will collaborate with the government, customers, tech startups and universities to build partnerships and create innovative products and solutions for professional markets throughout the Asia Pacific region. The Singapore Lab is the first branch in Asia to open as part of Thomson Reuters Labs growing global network, joining locations in Boston, Cape Town, London, Waterloo (Canada) and Zürich.

Software and technology industry veteran Mike Barry joins Optanix to run the next phase of company growth.

Optanix, the leader in ensuring predictable IT for the world's most technology-driven companies, today announced that Mike Barry has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer.

Lombard Risk Management plc (LSE: LRM), the provider of collateral management and regulatory reporting solutions, announces considerable increase of its North American client base and major new product additions. 

Northern Trust (Nasdaq:NTRS) collaborated with IBM and other key stakeholders to launch the first commercial deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market.

“Current legal and administrative processes that support private equity are time consuming and expensive”

While private equity returns can be attractive, the infrastructure supporting private equity has seen little innovation in recent years at a time when investors are seeking greater transparency, security and efficiency.

Goodix, the global leader in human interface and biometric technologies, reported today that it would unveil another world’s first technology. It is patented with independent intellectual properties at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.

SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, today reported that MoneySuperMarket Group (MSMG), the UK’s largest price comparison site, has applied CloudTest and mPulse solutions across its online service brands.

Cohesity, the pioneer of hyperconverged secondary storage, has integrated with Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG),the independent solid-state array vendor, to deliver faster, simpler and more cost-effective data protection and recovery solution. The native integration with Pure Storage FlashArray//M also enables customers to leverage public cloud storage for long-term data retention and accelerate DevOps with instantaneous copies of any production application.

There’s a line in the 2013 film Her, it’s not just an operating system, it’s a consciousness.  The film is about Theodore, played by Joaquin Phoenix.  Theodore is a lonely writer who gets to trial a new operating system OS1, the world’s first artificially intelligent operating system.  The OS1 tailors itself to your habits and needs, and this OS is almost alive, as represented by the personality of its voice, Samantha, played by Scarlett Johansson.  From IMDB:

Lexmark International, Inc., a global imaging leader, has received a 2017 PaceSetter award in the Healthcare: Group Practices category from Buyers Laboratory (BLI).The award was given for its exceptional portfolio of devices, solutions and services for healthcare providers.

The BLI PaceSetter is a first-of-its-kind award that recognises the vendors that offer the most impressive portfolios of devices, solutions and services for healthcare providers.