DataLong16, a Barcelona-based company specialising in the Internet of Things (IoT) with research and development (R&D) and production operations in Europe, has strengthened its sales area with the addition of Aymeric Brard as VP of Sales.

Mobileum, a provider of roaming systems and analytics solutions for telecom business transformation, has appointed Arun Sarin to its board of directors. Sarin brings a wealth of knowledge, says Mobileum, obtained in leading roles at some of the world’s largest telecommunications companies.

PTC and Vodafone Group has announced that PTC’s ThingWorx® application enablement platform has been chosen by the operator to help in the development of new Vodafone Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Vodafone Group, Huawei, and u-blox have completed the first successful commercial trial of pre-standard NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things).

October 13, 2014, Dubai, UAE: Leading mobile operators, SIM vendors and module manufacturers are now deploying solutions that comply with a new specification, GSMA Embedded SIM, designed to accelerate provisioning of machine-to-machine (M2M) services. New research suggests that the deployment will grow the M2M market by 34% by 2020.