As the internet of things grows to encompass many more “things,” so are the number of wireless ways to connect them. Wi-Fi,…
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Internet-of-things service providers Kore and Raco merge
Kore Wireless, one of the biggest independent players in internet-of-things connectivity, is buying competitor RacoWireless. Combined, the two will manage 3 million cellular connections linking everything from farm equipment to bagged ice machines.…
Read MoreIntel Capital puts $28M into Chinese Android, wearables, biometrics and M2M firms
Intel's venture capital arm has doled out the first tranche of its latest big Chinese fund, with some interesting investees on its roster.…
Read MoreO2 Germany partners with Zubie to connect older cars to the internet
The carrier has revealed an O2-branded version of the Zubie Key. It's only available in Germany for now, but O2 is considering a rollout in other markets too.…
Read MoreMojio will launch its connected car gadget over AT&T and Telus networks
Mojio makes a module that plugs into your car's onboard diagnostic port, bringing cellular connectivity and an application platform along for the ride. It now plans on launching by the end of the year.…
Read MoreTwilio starts sending pictures to phone numbers and expands into the internet of things
Twilio isn't just offering MMS up as consumer-facing communications service. CEO Jeff Lawson believes it will become a key way of sending data between devices and the cloud on the internet of things.…
Read MoreOpen Garden is using FireChat to build a network for the internet of things
Open Garden is teaming up with TrackR to connect its FireChat and bandwidth-sharing apps to TrackR's smart tags. Why? A FireChat user may one day help locate your lost luggage.…
Read MoreMeet the slimiest thing on the internet of things: SK Telecom’s connected eel farm
You may have a hub for smart home, but an aquaculture farm in South Korea now has a smart hub for its eel tanks. There, sensors, servers and smartphones monitor the health of thousands of eels.…
Read MoreSigfox brings its internet of things network to San Francisco
Sigfox's dedicated wireless network for the internet of things will debut in the U.S. in the next few months. The low-power, low-bandwidth network is optimized for the expected explosion of smart sensors, appliances and wearables.…
Read MoreJasper lands $50M to connect the internet of things to mobile networks
Jasper has quietly become a force in the internet of things, brokering and managing many of the connectivity agreements – including AT&T’s(s…
Read MoreSigfox picks up €15M to expand its dedicated internet-of-things network
The French startup, which has developed wireless technology to let everyday objects send out tiny chunks of data at low power and low cost, wants to build on existing network rollouts in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Russia.…
Read MoreAT&T and IBM team up around smarter cities
IBM and AT&T are teaming up to share and analyze smart city and utility data so municipalities can react to traffic incidences,…
Read MoreT-Mobile’s new love of MVNOs helps drive its subscriber growth
T-Mobile's big growth third quarter was driven in part by 344,000 new MVNO connections. Those virtual subscribers are becoming and increasing chunk of T-Mobile's business as it begins welcome more virtual operators to its network.…
Read MoreWeightless sets pricing, Q1 timeframe for its first internet-of-things chips
Neul will ship its first white space radio modules for $12 a pop to sensor and device makers in the first quarter and launch its first networks in the U.S. and U.K. in the second.…
Read MoreThe 2020 network: How our communications infrastructure will evolve
Ahead of our Mobilize event Oct. 16 and 17, we asked experts how 50 billion connected devices and 6 billion people change their industries. In this essay, Ericsson's Vish Nandlall describes the transformation of the mobile network.…
Read More4G cars are coming, but we won’t have much choice in how we connect them
Soon we'll be able to connect our cars directly to the mobile internet just like our smartphones, but unlike your smartphone your new car is going to be linked to a specific carrier.…
Read MoreReport: MVNOs are racking up mobile subscribers in the U.S.
Virtual operators have driven a good chunk of the growth in the U.S. mobile market in the last two years, according to GSMA Intelligence. AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile host 23 million MVNO connections alone.…
Read MoreFuture Nissans will get AT&T connectivity thanks to SiriusXM deal
AT&T has landed yet another automaker on its growing roster of connected car clients. Nissan, with the help of telematics provider SiriusXM, will embed AT&T connectivity into unspecified future cars.…
Read MoreSprint, IBM want to connect your phone to your car through the cloud
Sprint and IBM are betting that the cloud will be the key component of the connected car of the future. It's not just about connecting your car to the internet. It's about who's in the driver's seat.…
Read MoreWhat happens when the world turns into one giant brain
Currently much of the big data being churned out is merely exhaust. But imagine the possibilities once we figure out how to produce and process better data on the fly on a global scale. Call it Big Inference.…
Read MoreUK prepares for white space broadband rollout in 2014
The UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced an industry pilot of the long-range broadband and M2M technology later this year, in order to make sure everything works properly ahead of a likely national deployment next year.…
Read MoreWeightless finalizes its white spaces networking standard for the internet of things
The Weightless SIG claims the new standard will allow for ultra-low-power transmissions at long-range and at a cheap manufacturing cost. If true, that would make the technology ideal for M2M communications.…
Read MoreIBM plugs big data capabilities into Deutsche Telekom’s M2M infrastructure for smarter cities
The two companies have signed a partnership aimed at providing municipalities with tools for making their cities, in particular their transport systems, smarter and more efficient.…
Read MoreJasper Wireless plans to shape traffic over the internet of things
M2M outfit Jasper is investing in Tekelec's policy server technology, which means it will be able to prioritize the traffic of certain machines over others. Why? Not all "things" in the internet of things are created equal.…
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