IBM, STMicroelectronics and Shaspa enhance IoT control of home heating, lighting and security

IBM (NYSE:IBM), STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) and Shaspa have announced a collaboration to use cloud and mobile computing to enable consumers to manage and interact with their homes’ functions and entertainment systems.

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Secure M2M technology for a healthier and safer life

Machine-to-machine (M2M) technology has the potential to transform healthcare and create a continuum of care, despite limited resources.

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mHealth Summit

Event date: December 8-11, 2013 Washington, DC Area, The Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center The largest event of its kind, the 5th annual mHealth Summit delivers value for stakeholders across the mobile health ecosystem.  The event uniquely gathers healthcare and technology leaders in government, the private sector, industry, academia, providers and not-for-profit organizations from

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Smart glasses and other wearable devices to be worth over $1.5bn by 2014, finds Juniper

A new report from Juniper Research has valued the next-gen wearable devices market, including smart glasses, to be worth more than $1.5 billion by 2014,

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MedMinder helps patients adhere to complex, costly drug treatment regimes

Newton, Massachusetts, USA. October 31, 2012 — Non-adherence to medication regimes is one of healthcare’s most daunting and costly challenges, but now a new M2M solution is being brought to market.

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M2M network security market to generate $752m by 2017 as critical infrastructure concerns grow, says ABI

London, UK. October 25 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The growth of mainstream M2M solutions within critical information infrastructure such as utilities, healthcare, and finance is creating a headache for service providers and critical infrastructure operators

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9th Annual Connected Health Symposium

Event date: 25-26th October 2012 Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers

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Set M2M free: Keeping pace with opportunity in the healthcare sector

(BLOG:) The health sector has been evolving for thousands of years, as new clinical findings have come to the forefront. Today, says Erik Brenneis, head of Vodafone M2M, it continues to evolve, but as well as keeping in line with new medical discoveries it also leads the way in the adoption of cutting edge technologies.

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New NFC technology offers wider charging area and small footprint in smartphones and healthcare devices

Dusseldorf, Germany – Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductors, has developed a new near field communication (NFC) wireless charging system designed to eliminate the power cable for charging and to increase systems efficiency.

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North American telehealth report published on healthcare and ICT convergence

Dublin, Ireland. September 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report on the North American Telehealth industry to its offering. The report is entitled, A CEO’s Guide to Convergence between Healthcare and Information and Communications Technologies.

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Care Technology Systems and Qualcomm Life join forces to facilitate 'ageing-in-place'

Nashville, Tennessee, USA (BUSINESS WIRE) September 12, 2012 — Care Technology Systems (CTS), a company that helps the elderly to safely age at home, has announced the availability of CTS’ monitoring suite on the 2net™ Platform operated by Qualcomm Life, Inc.

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Opportunities in Asia's M2M ecosystem to be discussed in Singapore in April

Singapore. September 4, 2012 — You may argue that the technology behind M2M has been around for a while and you wouldn’t be wrong, but event organisers Terrapinn say it is only now that Asian markets for M2M communications are starting to provide industry verticals the capacity to tap into this mobility.

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Wider telehealth user engagement will drive demand for managed services, says new report

The lack of consistently demonstrable positive outcomes, both clinical and economic, has traditionally served as a central barrier to telehealth adoption. Doubts as to whether telehealth works in delivering positive, significant returns on investment hinder reimbursement, says one research firm.

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GE acquires PRESENS, Norway-based supplier of industrial sensors

Boston, Massachusetts, USA (BUSINESS WIRE) — GE has announced the acquisition of PRESENS, a provider of pressure, temperature and flow measurement solutions. The acquisition expands GE’s portfolio of sensing solutions and will be part of the company’s Boston-based Measurement & Control business

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mHealth Summit

Event date: December 8-11, 2013 Washington, DC Area The largest event of its kind, the 5th annual mHealth Summit delivers value for stakeholders across the mobile health ecosystem. 

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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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