connected devices

Boston, Massachusetts, USA – Following its recent research into the M2M products consumers are most likely to buy, Yankee Group expressed mixed feelings about Audi’s deal with T-Mobile USA to power its Audi Connect infotainment platform with wireless service.

Monarch Beach, CA, USA (Business Wire) — Device web server and security specialist, Real Time Logic, now supports TLS 1.2’s improved security and encryption in the latest version of SharkSSL, a compact, fast cryptographic engine.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Sierra Wireless Inc. has completed the sale of most of its AirCard® assets and operations to NETGEAR® Inc. for $138 million in cash plus approximately $5.9 million in assumed liabilities.

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 services and product support”.

Every day in publications such as M2M Now, we can read of new, exciting and useful M2M services emerging within the vertical segments.

London, UK (BUSINESS WIRE) — ABI Research forecasts that a total of 1.95 billion NFC-enabled devices will ship in 2017, a combination of both handsets and CE devices. The lion’s share of NFC enablement will continue to be focused in the handset market

Dallas, Texas, USA. (BUSINESS WIRE) — Samsung Mobile continues to advance the use of NFC technology in everyday life with the roll-out of Samsung TecTile Version 3.0, the latest update to its popular mobile application.

IFA Berlin, Germany and Paris, France — Withings is ushering in its next generation of internet-connected bathroom scales with the Wireless Scale WS-30. This scale combines Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity to offer a seamless, PC-free experience, from installation to everyday use.

Beaverton, Oregon, USA. August 28, 2012 – UPnP Forum, the global standards body working for seamless connectivity between more than a billion devices, has announced its new UPnP+ initiative.

M2M Now magazine explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. And in our exclusive interviews will pass on some of the lessons learned by those who have taken the first steps in next gen M2M services.

Bellevue, Washington, USA – A new global organisation, oneM2M, has been formed to create technical specifications to ensure that machine-to-machine (M2M) communications can effectively operate to agreed standards on a worldwide scale.

The goal of this report is to provide a detailed analysis of the market size and composition for Internet connected devices, with a clearly defined scope and transparent methodology. This report provides detailed market statistics for the installed base as well as new shipments of Internet connected devices across eight different vertical markets including Industrial, Medical, Consumer Electronics, and Automotive.

Red Bend Software announced it has joined the GENIVI Alliance to collaborate with automotive manufacturers and tier one suppliers on managing the growing amount of software in cars.

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity will drive significant growth, cost reductions and efficiencies across the automotive, building and energy industries.

London, UK. June 2, 2012 — Telefonica UK, which operates the O2 brand, has partnered with Jasper Wireless to deploy a new platform for the management of machine-to-machine (M2M) connections. The cloud-based management platform will enable Telefonica UK customers to roll out connected devices quickly and efficiently, manage them in real time and deliver global

M2M Now magazine explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. And in our exclusive interviews will pass on some of the lessons learned by those who have taken the first steps in next gen M2M services.