Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...
Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...
As new markets emerge, new market participants also emerge. On the one hand it’s a good thing because a lot of players are coming on board to help solve the challenges at hand. On the flip side there can also be confusion and a...
Essence has been around for 20 years providing professional-graded security solutions. While not the first type of company that comes to mind when thinking about home care solutions, they have over 10 million products deployed and are focusing on bringing machine-to-machine functionality into the...
Last week I attended the joint shows of LTE World Summit and Connected Cars 2014 and there was a lot to talk about. Hopefully you’ve seen our coverage, but just to highlight a few topics we mentioned in more detail and a few new...
Daniel Dribinski, founder and CTO of Cellwize, spoke with RCR Wireless News on the company's transition from 2G/3G to more of a focus on machine-to-machine and the "Internet of Things."
Dribinski said that 2G has become a so-called "garbage collector" for network traffic, and mM2M...
A new survey by network control company Infoblox concludes that while businesses are eager for the opportunities presented by the "Internet of Things," networks don't yet have sufficient capacity for the expected growth in IoT applications.
"As it stands today, there may not be enough...
It seems the telecom industry does this on a regular basis. We come up with an idea, and we talk about if for years and it still seems to be some unreachable goal in the future. Then we change the name to a more...
Unfortunately, for those of us not so gifted, PowerPoint’s remain a struggle to insert interesting information into a digital format that sucks the interest out of just about any non-animation information.
Ericsson's latest report on mobility shows growth in the machine-to-machine space, as well as the continued dominance of smartphones in the device market and significant regional divides in the coverage of LTE.
"We see cellular M2M taking off," said Rima Qureshi, SVP and chief strategy...
As carriers rip-and-replace legacy equipment in favor of new technologies, they are faced with what to do with the old equipment. RCR Wireless News will take a look at the different choices carriers have in what to do with old equipment, including recycling options....
The wireless industry is quickly heading towards relying on LTE-based next-generation networks that offer superior performance and efficiency compared to legacy 2G and 3G systems. However, in order to fully support those LTE efforts, wireless carriers are beginning to seed the need to turn...
Many of the wireless technologies that are integral to the way we use our phones are based on patents developed by InterDigital Communications. The company's patent portfolio covers packet data, seamless handover, bandwidth on demand, and several other key wireless technologies. The same research...
The other week I was skiing at Vail with three of my best mates, and we were using smart badges from the resort to track our runs. We’re all very competitive people, and we were all trying to go faster, longer, higher and catch more lifts.
Cisco is opening up its IP Cameras platform for safety and security applications in order to allow customers to create their own applications that integrate the company's security cameras and analytics.
In an Internet roundtable on Tuesday, Cisco and some customer representatives discussed the new...
Five major players in telecom and industry are joining forces to accelerate interoperability in the development of the Internet of Things through industrial Internet applications.
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have formed the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which is an open membership, not-for-profit group...
The “Internet of things” promises to usher in a new wave of technological evolution. In a few years’ time, billions of things – cars, utility meters, TVs and even furniture – will be linked
There's a lot of buzz these days surrounding the "Internet of things.” Unfortunately the term itself is fuzzy, leading to ambiguity and misunderstanding of what it actually means.
Sprint is looking to capitalize on the growing market for connected devices that monitor drivers in order to calculate more accurate insurance premiums. Today the carrier announced a partnership with Intelligent Mechatronic Systems, a developer of connected car technologies, that calls for Sprint to...
BARCELONA, Spain - Digital security specialist Gemalto (NYSE: GTO) is bringing machine-to-machine (M2M) technology to cities with a solution that the company says can pay for itself within a year. The smart collective recycling container uses an ultrasound distance center that measures the exact...
The M2M opportunity for service providers was a key theme this year at MWC 2014. Carriers discussed the business models that their customers are exploring, and vendors shared innovations that are set to expand carrier offerings in the months ahead. Demand is driven by...
T-Mobile US expanded its international offering with a new SIM card product targeting the machine-to-machine space. The carrier said the product will eliminate roaming costs for M2M products in the United States and Canada.
T-Mobile noted the product includes both a physical SIM card that...
Agilent Technologies has opened up a 5-meter semi-anechoic chamber at its facility in Santa Rosa, Calif., expanding its on-site electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) capability testing capacity for making sure that products conform to emerging standards for electromagnetic emissions and interference (EMI).
The 1,300-square foot semi-anechoic chamber...
