Plans are underway for the Verizon Wireless Application Innovation Center (AIC), which is scheduled to open in San Francisco later this year, the company announced. The Center will be a place for developers, network engineers, entrepreneurs and others to work together on innovative applications that take advantage of Verizon Wireless’ leading 3G and 4G LTE mobile networks.
Verizon Wireless and Axeda Corporation announced an alliance to speed the development and deployment of global machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions. By combining Verizon Wireless’ leading wireless network with Axeda’s proven cloud application development platform, the alliance provides a unified and scalable global M2M infrastructure. The alliance will help to make it efficient for customers to develop and deploy complete connected product solutions.
American Roamer, mapping intelligence source for the mobile and network ecosystem, announced the launch of MapELEMENTS, cloud-based interactive mapping application. MapELEMENTS aggregates network coverage information for the wireless, cable and telecom ecosystem. The application allows users to view and analyze this intelligence easily within one platform, empowering strategic decision makers to geographically visualize how different data sets relate to clients, competitors, assets or industry influencers.
AT&T and Ford Motor Company announced an agreement to wirelessly connect the Ford Focus Electric, Ford’s first all-electric passenger car. The agreement with Ford Motor Company outlines plans to connect an electric car with a SIM card, offering feature controls through a smartphone application, such as heat and AC.
US Signal, provider of data bandwidth capacity in the Midwest, announced its plan for significant network expansion adding several new on-off-ramps to its Midwest footprint in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The expansion will increase US Signal’s footprint to more than 9,000 route miles of long-haul fiber and more than 1,100 miles of fiber optic metro rings in 24 markets connecting regions in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri.
