Machine to Machine (M2M)
Why adding M2M to smartphones will make them even 'smarter'
Adding the ability to control one’s environment from the palm of one’s hand will help mobile operators add even more value to their customer relationships....
Is the free Kindle on the horizon?
Axeda predicts e-book vendors will soon start giving hardware away....
Parsing Kore’s M2M connections
The vehicle connection is still the dominant M2M link to the wireless network, but Kore's COO says that link has become far more sophisticated....
Ericsson: Global mobile subscriptions pass 5 billion
New data suggests that penetration levels are almost at 75%, driven by ramp up in China and India....
AT&T uses Apriva to turn smartphones into point-of-sale devices
Targeting small businesses, the credit card processing service will come in two flavors: a browser-based service and a full-featured application. ...
Gemalto combining SIM, M2M with Cinterion buy
The acquisition could lead to closer integration of authentication and security with wireless modules....
With Sprint M2M deal, Axeda seeking direct links with operators
As M2M becomes bigger, operators have started to work more closely with platform companies like Axeda ...
T-Mobile: M2M connections to outnumber humans 4-to-1
As T-Mobile scales its M2M platform, machines will become the dominant connection type on the network though not the primary consumer of bandwidth...
Researchers predict M2M rebound
Popular applications include telematics, in-vehicle, security and more...
M-Health will be biggest driver of M2M
Juniper Research is forecasting the number of M2M connected devices to grow to 412 million globally by 2014 ...
Cisco on Starent: Mobile play wedge into massive IP opportunity
Networking giant closes $2.9 billion deal for mobile IP core vendor Starent, creates new dedicated mobile IP unit...
Amdocs: Telco opportunity in supporting a 'trillion' devices
App stores and best-effort networks are already commodities; the future is in supporting mission-critical and life-saving value adds...
CTIA IT wrap-up: The wireless evolution
CTIA IT was interesting and informative and actually the same size — 15,000 attendees — as last year’s conference. They may be small victories, but this year’s show was a good indication of where the industry is headed: to an industry focused on the end user, data, applications and perhaps more enterprise than entertainment. ...
Perfect intersection: M2M and the supply chain
Telecom service providers have had mixed success providing supply chain services – usually in the form of hosted apps. Leveraging machine-to-machine communications to help companies track in-transit goods worldwide could be the killer app that helps change all that...
CTIA IT: Sprint, AT&T beef up M2M activities
Operators Sprint and AT&T bulked up their behind-the-scenes operations with emerging device initiatives and separate deals with Numerex, showing that while they’re taking a greater interest in serving the M2M market directly, they’re still willing to rely on their resellers. ...
Tekelec pushes for SMS in M2M networks
The next big M2M innovation might just be an old standard. Messaging and signaling infrastructure vendor Tekelec is trying to make a case for SMS as the mechanism for transferring small amounts of data across wireless telematics networks....
OPERATORS PIECE TOGETHER THE M2M PUZZLE
Wireless operators have decided to stake their claim in the mobile telematics market. In one sense, it was a market they were never absent from those...
M2M enables better auto insurance models
In the highly competitive industry of automobile insurance, the differences between premiums are one of the single biggest ways insurers differentiate themselves...
LA County untangles traffic snarls with M2M
Municipal telematics networks embracing other applications besides smart grids and surveillance...
Carriers get wise to the M2M opportunity
In part one of a four-part series on the emerging M2M market, Connected Planet investigates the changing roles of the network operator and the M2M aggregator...
