Helen Laidlaw

Imagine a rural community in the heart of America, long cut off from the digital world, suddenly gaining access to high-speed internet through a massive federal investment—only for the connection to falter months later with no one noticing until frustrated residents start complaining. This scenario

Imagine a world where businesses can slash IT costs, boost system uptime, and shrink their environmental footprint all at once—sounds like a tall order, right? Yet, this is exactly the promise of third-party hardware maintenance services for data centers and networks, a market currently pegged at

Imagine a factory floor where machines communicate with each other, predict their own breakdowns before they happen, and schedule maintenance without human intervention. This isn’t science fiction—it’s the reality being forged by Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution that’s reshaping how

Imagine a world where your smartphone doesn’t just connect to the cloud for smart responses but thinks for itself, right in your pocket, with no lag or privacy worries. That’s the future Arm, a titan in semiconductor and software design, is crafting through its latest breakthroughs in on-device

Imagine a world where connectivity is so seamless that it powers not just communication, but entire ecosystems of innovation—healthcare, education, and industry—on a global scale, transforming how societies function. That’s the promise of 6G, the next leap in mobile networks slated for the 2030s,

Imagine a world where artificial intelligence drives every corner of enterprise operations, from customer interactions to backend analytics, yet leaves gaping holes in security that traditional tools can't patch. This is the reality many organizations face as AI adoption skyrockets, creating

Picture a world where every click, stream, and cloud upload silently siphons away a precious resource—water. Data centers, the unseen engines of the digital age, consume staggering amounts of this vital liquid to cool their power-hungry servers, often drawing from the same municipal supplies that

I’ve spent the last decade living at the seam where deterministic Ethernet meets modern wireless. Across brownfield plants and greenfield labs, my work has focused on turning TSN’s promises into practical reality over 5G. In this conversation, we dig into the craft behind microsecond-level

In a world where cyber intrusions, kinetic operations, and information warfare collide at machine speed, NATO’s newest technology bets signaled a decisive turn toward hard sovereignty built on cloud and 5G rather than perimeter defenses and paper-based control. The alliance’s communications and IT

When a customer taps a branded message and completes a purchase in seconds, the gap between old-school texting and rich, interactive chat becomes the moment that decides whether a business wins attention or fades into the noise. That split-second decision is exactly where SMS and RCS part ways, and