Washington DC, USA. January 2, 2013 – CTIA-The Wireless Association® has announced it will create a ‘super’ mobile industry trade show that will dominate the second half of the year, beginning in 2014.

Sydney, Australia. December 20, 2012 – Near Field Communications (NFC) pioneer, Tapit Media Pty Ltd, has completed a AUS$2.3 million (EUR1.8 million) Series A round of investment led by MPC Ventures Pty Ltd

Redwood Shores, California, USA – Oracle has agreed to acquire DataRaker, a provider of a cloud-based analytics platform that enables electric, gas and water utilities to leverage vast amounts of data

Munich, Germany & Toronto, Canada – Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), a global provider of secure technologies, is serving as the Trusted Service Manager (TSM) for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in their offering of NFC credit card payment services to their customers.

(BLOG): Steve Hilton, lead analyst for Analysys Mason‘s Enterprise research programme, shows the possible progression from a machine-to-machine (M2M) to an Internet of Things (IoT) world.

Irvine, California, USA. December 16, 2012 — Masimo Corporation has launched a pulse oximeter, called iSpO2™, for Apple™’s iPhone, iPad & iPod touch. iSpO2™ uses the same technology found in Masimo’s professional line of pulse oximeters and Pulse CO-Oximeters™ used in hospitals around the world to provide accurate measurements.

Dallas, Texas, USA. (PRNewswire) — AT&T has selected AirOn™ technology to enhance its single worldwide SIM solution for wireless-enabled global products. Through this new provisioning, manufacturers of connected consumer and M2M devices will, says the network operator, have “seamless access to a global platform for service management, application development, professional [...]

Tokyo, Japan — A free-to-attend open forum covering the delivery of smart home services was hosted in Tokyo on December 11 by HGI, a global organisation for publishing requirements for the digital home.

(EDITORIAL): How often have you looked at M2M research figures and muttered, “Really?” Many of the people I talk to, says editor, Jeremy Cowan, are as unimpressed as I am by forecasts of billions of connected devices and trillion dollar revenues. Eventually such figures become meaningless.

Aeris Communications, which claims to offer the only cellular network designed and built exclusively for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, has expanded its partnership with car maker, Acura to power the next generation of AcuraLink®.