Apple may launch NFC payments in iPhone 6, but the banks and telcos can stop smiling …

West Malling, Kent, UK. August 22, 2014 – It’s that time again. Apple is expected to make a product announcement soon and the Mac-osphere is already going into meltdown about what might be coming. Not for the first time the smartphone “smart” money is on, well, money – or embedded security and near field communications

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Smart Igloos, Connected Trees and Me – What are they on at Ericsson Research?

Stockholm, Sweden. June 27, 2012 — M2M Now has been given unrivalled access this week to some serious brainpower at Ericsson Research in Stockholm. Discussions covered temperature sensors in a home-made igloo, handshakes that exchange business cards and a tree that ‘sees’ you coming. As Jeremy Cowan says, you couldn’t make this stuff up!

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