IT, AI & Telecommunications

New York City – October 12, 2026 -- S-Docs, a 100% Salesforce-native document automation vendor, has added Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) authenticated signing to its S-Sign e-Signature product, letting agencies and contractors verify signer identity inside Salesforce workflows.

S-Sign verifies signer identity at the moment of document execution

The enhancement uses the signer's existing identity provider. Agencies and contractors insert their CAC or PIV cards to authenticate, without replacing or reworking established systems. S-Docs describes the product as fully standards-based and identity-provider-agnostic.

S-Docs says the enhanced S-Sign runs entirely within Salesforce and requires no extra clicks or downloads. It meets DoD and federal requirements guided by NIST and FIPS standards and keeps a complete audit trail for compliance and record-keeping.

New York City – October 12, 2026 -- S-Docs, a document automation platform built 100% natively on Salesforce, has been named "Best Contract Management Software" in the 2026 MarTech Breakthrough Awards, after adding CAC and PIV-authenticated signing to its e-Signature capabilities.

S-Docs targets contract inefficiency that costs up to 9% of annual revenue

The company cites inefficiencies in contract management as costing organizations up to 9% of annual revenue, driven by delays, errors and missed obligations. It also points to disconnected systems and weak identity verification as sources of compliance gaps and security vulnerabilities.

New York City – – October 12, 2026 -- Among regulated organizations that report financial damage from document workflow failures, 21% put the cost at $500,000 or more, according to a new S-Docs report, The Regulated Workflow Divide. The survey of 600 U.S. professionals in healthcare, financial services and the public sector also found that about 50% of organizations expose sensitive data outside their system of record.

Fragmented tooling drives much of the exposure. Some 69% of organizations route critical documents through three or more tools, and 76% use more than one tool for the same document-related function. Employees lose roughly 25% of their workweek re-entering data, reformatting documents and compensating for disconnected systems.

New York City – October 12, 2026 -- S-Docs, a document automation and e-Signature provider for Salesforce, has expanded its platform to let regulated enterprises build templates without code, collect signatures in the same workflow as document generation, and let AI assistants initiate document requests under Salesforce governance.

The launch targets a governance gap the company cites: 72% of regulated organizations have deployed AI in at least one document workflow, but only 30% have the governance to do so safely.

Visual Template Editor removes the admin and developer bottleneck

The new Visual Template Editor lets business users design documents on a page, see changes live, and add Salesforce data and conditional logic without writing code. Template creation previously required an admin or a developer. S-Docs says any trained team member can now do it, shortening the time to launch or update a document.

Tokyo -- NTT DOCOMO began commercial operation on October 12, 2026 of Nokia's latest O-RAN ALLIANCE-compliant base station equipment, becoming the world's first operator to run it in a multi-vendor configuration, according to DOCOMO's own research as of that date.

Levante and Ponente cards connect to radio units from multiple vendors

The equipment uses Nokia's Levante baseband card for data processing and Ponente card for control processing. It connects to O-RAN-compliant radio units from different suppliers. DOCOMO says this lets it match radio units to each area's traffic demand: high-power units for wide coverage, and compact units for dense urban sites with limited installation space and for event venues.

Tokyo – October 12, 2026 -- KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile signed a memorandum of understanding on September 11, 2026, to jointly study how 5G millimeter-wave base stations can serve customers across operator boundaries. The four carriers announced the agreement on September 16.

Four carriers will test technical feasibility of cross-operator mmWave use

The study will assess whether the usage coverage of 5G millimeter-wave base stations can be expanded among mobile network operators. The companies will also evaluate efficient operational frameworks for implementing such an arrangement.

The work will focus on technologies and approaches related to 5G millimeter-wave base stations, repeaters and other related assets. The operators plan concrete studies on how to make effective use of facilities that have already been deployed.

France -- NTT, Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding on October 12, 2026, with France-based photonics company Cailabs to explore direct optical links between satellite networks and terrestrial data infrastructure.

NTT would integrate coherent and network control technology into Cailabs ground stations

The companies will examine adding NTT's digital coherent technology and network control technology to Cailabs' optical ground stations (OGS). They will also study connecting selected stations to nearby NTT data centers over NTT's All-Photonics Network (APN).

The network control technology automatically bypasses ground stations rendered inoperable by weather and coordinates multiple stations with the APN to keep communication reliable.

Tokyo – October 12, 2026 -- NTT DOCOMO, INC. has developed an AI model that delivers accurate predictions from the first day of a new service, and it will test the technology in field trials with digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising businesses in Japan and overseas by March 2027.

The Dual-view Adaptive Retrieval-augmented Tweedie model targets the "cold-start problem." This occurs when AI cannot make reliable predictions or recommendations because historical data is insufficient, for example after a service launch or an expansion into a new field or region. A paper on the model has been accepted for presentation at the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys 2026).

Tokyo – -- NTT DATA will send a dozen employees to Antarctica from November 25 to October 12, 2026, as the first chapter of "Intact, intelligent action.", a global sustainability initiative meant to turn corporate commitments into practical steps for fragile places.

The program combines awareness, technology and stewardship. It grows out of the company's "Planet. Prosperity. People." framework, which guides its operations, innovation, sustainability solutions and client engagement.

Twelve NTT DATA employees join 60 other leaders on Robert Swan's final-led Antarctic expedition

The NTT DATA team will travel aboard the Magellan Explorer with polar explorer Robert Swan, OBE, and his 2041 Leadership on the Edge expedition. More than 60 other business and community leaders will take part. The agenda covers leadership under pressure, climate policy, sustainability and innovation.

TOKYO – October 12, 2026 -- NTT DATA Group has published its Sustainability Report 2026, organizing its fiscal 2026 sustainability initiatives around 13 material issues under three shared pillars.

NTT DATA groups 13 material issues under three "positive" pillars

The Group coordinates its global initiatives under the "3 Positives": Planet positive, Prosperity positive and People positive. The report gives stakeholders a structured overview of the latest measures addressing each of the 13 material issues.

Kazuhiko Nakayama uses the report to set his sustainability agenda as new CEO

Kazuhiko Nakayama became CEO of NTT DATA Group in June 2026. His message opens the report and outlines the Group's approach to sustainability management as a route to what the company calls Quality Growth.