4 Reasons Your Heavy Equipment And Dispersed Assets Need M2M

April 3, 2013
Meredith Powers

Look at the heavy equipment in this photo. Suppose you owned some of it, like the cranes or the drill rig. Your business would have a huge capital expense tied up in this project, wouldn’t it? Now imagine that this site is 10 hours away from your nearest office, and that you have other heavy equipment running at a...

$1 Trillion M2M Industry Growing At Warp Speed

March 14, 2013
John Schulz

I walked into an AT&T Telepresence® room the other day and I was momentarily teleported to the deck of the Starship Enterprise. Colleagues located thousands of miles away were suddenly right there in front of me. I half expected Jean-Luc Picard to dial-in. When I think of all the ways the telecommunications industry has grown in the last 20 years, it feels as if we’re living in...

Don’t Feel Like Talking? “Good Times” Can Tell

February 25, 2013
Maureen Backe

What do you get when you combine a pair of plush kitty ears, M2M, an Arduino development board, and cloud-based call management? If you’re neuroscientist Ruggero Scorcioni, you get a mobile app called Good Times and the $30,000 first prize in the Fast Pitch competition at the 2013 AT&T Developer Summit....

How Many Words Is Video Worth?

February 12, 2013
Maureen Backe

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a lot more than that. And if you throw a reference app and a website into the deal, it speaks volumes. That’s how we came up with the idea of our Showcase Business Scenario and Solution to illustrate the real-world problems that enterprise...

Enterprise Highlights From 2013 AT&T Developer Summit

January 31, 2013
Maureen Backe

Once again, Las Vegas offered a wealth of interesting experiences and information to those that  attended the 8th annual AT&T Developer Summit at the Palms Casino Resort on January 5-7. Here’s a quick recap of what went on, with links so you can follow up:...

A Few Of My Favorite Internet Of Things

January 8, 2013
Sander Biehn

I have observed that there are relatively few places you can get a layman’s explanation of the Internet of Things. Is it because this emerging role of the Internet is more interesting to ‘things’ than people? No way. Things may very well take the spotlight in a fully networked world, but people reap all the benefits. It is the job of businesses looking to leverage emerging technologies to learn more about the Internet of things and...

Get Your M2M Game On

January 2, 2013
Maureen Backe

M2M moves information among machines and into the hands of people who can use it. M2M connects electric meters to power grids, vending machines to automated ordering software and mobile health apps to patient tracking systems. Abhi Ingle recently posted about three industries that will never be the same thanks to mobility and M2M – insurance, healthcare and energy – and about...

Enterprise Developer Wake-Up Call – 10 Days Until The 2013 AT&T Developer Summit

December 28, 2012
Meredith Powers

Estimated worldwide IT spending on big data in 2013 will reach $34 billion. Assisted GPS can increase location accuracy down to the range of 5-30 meters. A slew of new devices leveraging improved connectivity to mobile handsets have fueled strong growth for wearable wireless mHealth devices in 2012. By the end of the year, nearly 30 million devices will have shipped, up 37% on 2011 shipments. These stats are just a few...

Calling All Enterprise Developers – 7 Reasons To Meet Us In Las Vegas

December 19, 2012
Maureen Backe

Have you made your plans for the 2013 AT&T Developer Summit yet? Mark your calendar for the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday just before the Consumer Electronics Show.  And this year we have 7 great reasons for developers – especially enterprise developers – to sign up and attend....

4 Ways To Ride The Wave Of Big Data Successfully

November 29, 2012
Rita Mix

Grab a life preserver, because you’re about to be drowning in data. The continued growth of “Big Data,” especially through machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, is giving businesses a lot more insight into what’s going on out there. It allows enterprises to track the behavior of customers and assets—industrial equipment, point-of-sale systems, energy meters, vehicle fleets, healthcare monitors, you name it—in amazing detail....

The Evolution Of Mobile Is Right-time Experiences- Part 1

October 11, 2012
Maribel Lopez

In a previous blog, I mentioned that companies would use context to deliver Right-time Experiences (RTEs). In the next several posts, I’d like to spend more time talking about how the future of mobile (B2C and B2E) is about delivering more RTEs. Today, leading companies are using mobile devices to...

3 V’s of Big Data and Mobility

September 6, 2012
Maribel Lopez

The combination of smartphones, tablets, and connected devices is creating a tidal wave of new data for businesses to store, process, and derive value from. Data sources and types are exploding as mobile...

Building a Connected Application?

August 23, 2012
Rita Mix

If you want to bake a cake, you’re not going to use a barbecue. Your grill may be great, you may have used it for years, and it may do a fantastic job making burgers and dogs. But baking a cake with it is going to take a lot of time, energy, and tinkering....

M2M and Municipalities: Welcome to Government 2.0

August 15, 2012
Josh Heard

What is M2M?  Machine-to-machine means wirelessly connecting millions of diverse devices to a network for the purpose of two-way communication.  In government applications, M2M allows...

3 Industries That Will Never Be the Same Again

July 17, 2012
Abhi Ingle

Inertia – resistance to change – can thwart progress in the business world. When an organization has seen success in an established structure, it’s often difficult to convince its leaders to experiment with new business models....

Mobility Spoken Here (Part 2)

March 14, 2012
Abhi Ingle

Last week, I shared my thoughts on some of the standout categories from Mobile World Congress. But now I want to delve deeper into a major trend I saw developing at MWC 2012...

Data On Demand… But No Plan Of Attack

March 5, 2012
ATT

Is unleashing the value of data a question that’s often on your mind? In today’s scenario of data deluge, fast-proliferating digital devices and web-based systems, how do you adopt a unified approach to data management, so as to capitalize on it?...

4 Reasons to Justify M2M Middleware Solutions

Sean Horan

M2M (Machine to Machine) is progressing quickly from custom designed solutions to address a specific business function or need to larger scale mobility initiatives within an organization....

3 Essential Elements To Connect For Tomorrow’s Adaptive Enterprise

March 1, 2012
Abhi Ingle

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? The familiar adage says you can’t, but I’m inclined to disagree. Just as I’ve seen an eleven year-old Labrador learn to rollover, I’ve watched IT departments emerge...

Modern Networks and Self Service Portals

February 10, 2012
Bill Danskin

With today’s critical emphasis on job creation in the US and elsewhere, it is important to examine the relationship between economic growth through employment and the inexorable rise of optimization...

The Internet of Things Come Alive

December 19, 2011
Andrew Edison

Last week I was privileged to be invited to deliver the opening keynote at “M2M World”, a major conference in London bringing together a diverse range of players involved in the fast developing...