How IoT SAFE improves IoT cybersecurity whilst being simple to deploy at scale

Security in IoT has often been listed as a development priority but then postponed or neglected with negative consequences. As the attack surface expands and new threats proliferate, traditional approaches to securing devices are too inflexible, too expensive or too complex to integrate to meet the timescale and volume needs of IoT enterprises. Current security

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Europe’s IoT industry doubles down to make the mass market a reality

Europe is an early adopter of IoT and sustained, planned investment by enterprises will ensure it keeps its position as the third largest IoT market behind China and North America as the decade continues, in spite of the challenges of war and disease, writes George Malim. 

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Comarch announces technology partnership for M2M and IoT with Nokia

Comarch, a global software house and provider of IT solutions and services for telecommunications companies, has forged a technology partnership in the fields of Machine to Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) with Nokia.

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Connectivity on the edge

There is a technological tsunami heading straight to the centre of the mobile telecoms world. IoT promises a deluge of connected “things”, from smart water meters and remote perimeter access control systems to traffic congestion monitors and the intelligent home.

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Paralysed by indecision on the road to the IoT

There’s a bewildering number of options for advancement in M2M. If only we could find a machine to make the navigation decisions for us

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The changing face of Wyless

Dan McDuffie and Gilli Coston discuss the changing face of Wyless, whilst Michel Zwijnenberg of newly acquired partner Aspider M2M, looks at ‘What does operator independence really mean?’

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M2M: the direct opportunity for rural and small, facilities-based mobile operators

Mobile operators are well positioned to seize a greater stake in the emerging machine-to-machine marketplace.

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Vodafone stays top of Machina Research’s M2M Leaderboard, AT&T misses second place through US technology choices

Machina Research updates its M2M Leaderboard, ranking MNOs on expected success between now and 2020. Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and AT&T remain top, with Telefónica moving up one place to 4th.

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NEC and Wyless form strategic M2M service partnership

Tokyo, Japan. April 18, 2012 — NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Wyless Inc., a leading provider of global machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless connectivity solutions and managed services, announced today that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) forming a strategic alliance to explore end-to-end M2M service opportunities.

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What’s the real value of an SLA?

OK, so I know the definition of SLA is Service Level Agreement – and I know that the purpose is to encourage suppliers to live up to the performance requirements of their customers, says Telenor Connexion’s Gwenn Larsson (pictured). And in some cases with business- and life-critical M2M solutions it’s really important that the service

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Global M2M subscriber base now exceeds 100 million after major growth in China, say analysts

Gothenburg, Sweden. April 10, 2012 – According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the global number of mobile network connections used for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communication increased by 37% in 2011 to reach 108.0 million.

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M2M could save mobile operators from nightmare scenario

Revenue streams in areas such as cloud, M2M and mobile financial services could save mobile network operators (MNOs) from a “nightmare” scenario, according to a report from Juniper Research.

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Mobile operators offered system to manage embedded devices roaming across their networks

Switzerland. 29 March, 2011 — With embedded devices now in widespread use in tablets and computers with 3G connectivity, such as Kindle, and now widely used in transport applications to monitor location and communication, MNOs are presented with a new roaming challenge.

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Welcome to the decade of M2M: the challenges facing operators

We hear that M2M connections are destined for exponential growth over the next few years but thoughts vary on exact numbers. So while M2M evolution is looking pretty tough to predict, what we can predict

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