M2M

As businesses examine energy and fuel costs as well as worker productivity, wireless companies have an opportunity to support the greening of the economy – and make money at the …

Machine-to-machine vendors face long- and short-term pressures that could affect their profitability, according to a new study from ABI Research.“M2M module vendors are in a precarious position,” says ABI Research …

Chip will allow people to receive phone calls on their PCs even when the machine is powered-down.

Sierra Wireless Inc. has purchased the assets of Junxion Inc., to build on its delivery of mobile data solutions for enterprise and government, the company said today. Junxion is a …

Despite the buzz surrounding the femtocell market, 2008 will probably be a low-key year for femtocell vendors with only about 100,000 units expected to ship, according to predictions from ABI …

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Today, at least two companies have incorporated an innovation for M2M that first was aimed at the handset market: FOTA, or, firmware-over-the-air. Make that DOTA (based on OFDM standards), in …

The mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) communications annual market is set to grow from less than $16 billion in 2008 to over $57 billion in 2014, according to Strategy Analytics (Boston, Mass.).

A year after its release, Microsoft’s Windows Home Server product still rare on store shelves and well known only among hard core techies.

Wireless hi-definition TV, while still in its “incubation” phase, could reach 1 million installations by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research.The market is fractured by three competing …

When Verizon Wireless announced in November that it would open up its network to any company that wanted to make a device for it, industry watchers had visions of innovative …

Citibank machines in 7-Eleven stores targetted in most effective remote PIN code theft scam in US banking history. Millions of bank customers face a new threat to their money after …

With wireless connectivity becoming ever more common in vehicles, security systems and utility meters, machine-to-machine technology is on the path to transform vending machines, real estate lock boxes and mail …

A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies.

Automated passenger profiling is rubbish, the Home Office has conceded in an amusing – and we presume inadvertent – blurt.

Eavesdroppers might be able to gain clues about the content of encrypted conversations even without breaking the cryptography.

The White Spaces Coalition has some strong words for one ofits harshest critics, the wireless microphone industry.

Bell Industries Inc. has finally gotten SkyTel off its plate. Velocita Wireless L.L.C. bought the division for $7.5 million, paying $3 million in closing, $3 million in 30 days and …

Advocates of unlicensed broadband devices may have won a small but significant victory at the Federal Communications Commission.

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft and Harrah’s Entertainment introduced a high-tech interactive bar table Wednesday that lets patrons order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen games and even flirt with each …

People rarely need coins to make a call these days, but don’t ditch your coppers just yet because manufacturer Handlink has designed a coin-operated Wi-Fi access point.

The US war robot manufacturing arm of controversial Brit gov spinoff bonanza company Qinetiq has announced the first shipment of its so-called “Transformer” battle droid.

TOKYO — A Japanese woman who allegedly lent her 15-year-old son one of Japan’s new “smart cards,” which are intended to prevent minors from buying cigarettes from vending machines, may …

Siemens Wireless Modules has become Cinterion Wireless Modules, after a buyout led by private equity firm Granville Baird, the company said yesterday. Investors included the company’s management and T-Mobile Venture …

The mobile device management services market is expected to grow from $583 million in 2007 to more than $20 billion by 2013, according to a report from ABI Research.“The range …