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On this episode of Cell Tower News, host Joey Jackson talks with Trey Nemeth, VP of Operations for Stealth Concealment, about the growing concealed tower market. Towers are increasingly taking root...
Could something that was agreed to in 1968 have an impact on the autonomous driving vision for the European Union? It could as there is a section pertaining to road traffic that is currently raising a stir.
There’s been quite a bit of news...
RCR Wireless News recently hosted the first installment of of its RCRatx Speakers Series, hosted in the company's production studios on the east side of Austin, Texas.
The inaugural installment featured Liam Quinn, a VP and senior fellow at Dell; and Franklin Flint, CTO at...
Form factor is key to market success for wearables
WASHINGTON – Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx, a Cambridge, U.K.-based market research firm focused on emerging technologies, sat down with RCR Wireless News to discuss trends in the wearables market.
Das was joined by James Hayward, an...
Technology powerhouse Google will begin to test its fully autonomous self-driving cars outside of its home base in Mountain View, Calif., for the first time with the addition of Austin, Texas, as a connected car testbed.
Google made the announcement over the weekend with a...
SK Telecom the first carrier in South Korea to install 5G equipment in its building
South Korean mobile telephony operator SK Telecom said it completed building a system to support the development of millimeter-wave technology, seen as one of the key enabling technologies for "5G,"...
On this episode of HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney is joined by industry experts to discuss the intersections of 5G, Wi-Fi and the Internet of Things (IoT).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaiYUkQ19jg
Kinney is joined by Franklin Flint, the chief technology officer for the Telecommunications Industry...
Apple is one of the key partners the Pentagon is calling on to help build the next generation of wearables for the military.
The U.S. government is reaching out to private entities including Apple, Boeing and others to develop flexible sensory gear that can be...
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IoT Innovation host Chris Hare speaks with Kevin Lindsay, who heads product marketing at Adobe. Adobe's analytics and data-driven support for the "Internet of Me" is evolving. Far from being yet another acronym, IoM shows how effective, timely, personalised yet non-intrusive marketing is helping drive...
Metro Transit to add express buses to free Wi-Fi program
The Twin Cities in Minnesota will soon be a testbed for Wi-Fi on transit routes. Metro Transit in the cities is making free Wi-Fi available on selected urban and local express routes.
The program, which begins this month, will be...
Smart traffic systems could save commuters two to four days per year of time spent in traffic
In a new report, the GSMA projects the city of Bangkok could save some $1 billion per year by implementing intelligent transport systems common in so-called smart cities.
Researchers...
One of the hottest topics around the mobile industry is “5G.” When it will happen; how it will be monetized; who’s going to lead the charge geographically; which operators; which vendors; etc. How far away is 5G and is it appropriate to be putting so...
August 19 was the inaugural episode of Cell Tower News with host Joey Jackson, editor and production manager for RCR Wireless News. On this episode, site acquisition, towersource.com, and related topics are discussed by Jackson and CEO and president of Mosaik Solutions Bryan Darr. Jackson is...
Traveling can be a burdensome process even when everything goes right. And chief among frequent flyer complaints is the lack of Wi-Fi access, or, when it's available, the low quality of Wi-Fi, which in airplanes is often far too slow to stream video.
Gogo, a...
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This week Chris Hare speaks with Dan Pollard CEO of MyDrugCosts. Dan's company and background are focused on delivering drug cost and side effect information to patients to empower their care and reduce costs for both the insured and their employers.
Dan and Chris discuss...
This week on HetNet Happenings, RCR Wireless News Managing Editor Sean Kinney learns about the networked society from Ericsson Head of Strategy and Technology Manish Jindal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEP3ojQSUSE
By 2020, projections suggest some 50 billion connected devices in the world. Kinney and Jindal look ahead at the...
Security and the connected car seem to be linked on a daily basis in the news the last few weeks. The question regarding hacking of the connected car has gone from if to when. Now the question is what is the best way to...
ICT ecosystem, authentication, network security all covered by the deal
Networking powerhouse Ericsson has partnered with SK Holdings of South Korea to jointly develop "Internet of Things" platforms for the health care and transportation verticals.
The Swedish company and SK Holdings, parent company of SK Telecom,...
Are you developing products with wireless internet connectivity? You cannot afford to miss this Anritsu webinar!
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a catch-all term that brings together device connectivity, service provision and data analytics. In this webinar we will focus on device connectivity....
In case you missed the latest episodes of RCRtv, our weekly recap is bringing you insight on topics and guests featured on RCRtv’s weekly programing.
Episode 11 of "IoT Innovation" aired on Aug. 13, featuring Jason Marcheck, service director for Current Analysis. This episodes focused on...
Vodafone recently released its third annual M2M Barometer report, developed in conjunction with Circle Research to better understand how businesses are utilizing machine-to-machine and "Internet of Things" technology. In order to get at these answers, 650 business and IT executives around the world were surveyed. In...
There has been industry speculation for years that Apple would take on a connected, autonomous vehicle project. Now, based on documents obtained by The Guardian, those rumors gain credence as it appears Apple is scouting locations to test a self-driving vehicle.
On Aug. 14, The...
We’ve all had it happen. We’re driving along a boring stretch of road and start to doze off, and then suddenly realize and shake ourselves awake; or maybe we don’t and something horrible happens. Guttersberg Automotive has developed a sensor within the steering wheel that it claims...
Installed 4G dongle on wooden mast then connected it to his house with fiber cable
British farmer Richard Guy, who lives in rural Salisbury Plain, got sick of slow Internet access so the enterprising do-it-yourselfer took matters into his own hands and built a custom...
