Motorola Mobility has agreed to acquire 4Home, a company that develops ‘connected home’ software for consumers. The deal is expected to be completed later this month.
Article rating: No rating
The number of mobile machine-to-machine connections is expected to exceed last year's forecast, according to ABI Research. It it's raised its prediction of about 225 million connections worldwide by 2014 to 232.5 million, with over 297 million M2M connections anticipated in 2015.
Article rating: No rating
Research company Berg Insight says the number of smart electricity meters installed around the world will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 31.1% to reach 302.5 million in 2015. Penetration rates for smart meters are expected to increase from today's 15–20% in Europe and North America to nearly 50%. It says many markets will approach 100% penetration by 2020.
Article rating: No rating
Mark Bridge writes:
Welcome to TheFonecast.com for this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, an itinerant online publication that contains the best mobile-focussed writing from the previous seven days.
The summer holidays may have reduced the quantity of online commentary for Carnival #234… but the quality remains unaffected.
Article rating: No rating
This week's edition of The Fonecast included an except from an interview about Smart Metering and Machine-to-Machine communication with telecoms consultant Ross Catley.
The full interview is now available to download as a special podcast from our website, from our RSS podcast feed and from iTunesg(11703474)a(1390898))
.
Article rating: No rating