UK based research firm, FC Business Intelligence has published a study At the crossroads: are mobile operators ready for IoT? in which it presents the views of four leading industry figures on this question. They are: Simon Boyd, M2M channel business manager, Telefónica; Richard Cornish, head of IoT, Xchanging; Thomas Nicholls, head of marketing & […]
Visiongain identifies top 20 M2M companies
Market research firm Visiongain has published a report Top 20 Machine to Machine (M2M) Companies 2015: The Internet of Things (IoT) & Connected Devices (price £1099) in which it profiles what it says are the top 20 companies involved in the M2M market. The report claims to provide “an analysis of the competitive landscape and […]
Cisco warns on security implications of IoT
Cisco has released its 2015 Internet Security report saying it “provides guidelines on how to apply structure and rules to protect privacy of IoT-generated data being handled globally, and a new look at how network access control has evolved to securely provide network access to IoT devices.” In a blog post, Tony Shakib, Cisco vice […]
Report: Connected Nation: M2M in Australia 2014-2019
This report was commissioned by Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s M2M division. It provides a domestic assessment of Australia’s M2M landscape. The research is based on the findings of the Ovum Large Enterprise Insights Survey, which was carried out in Australia in August 2014 as one of 15 major countries surveyed around the world. The aim was to […]
IoT “the most strategic technology initiative” in Asia Pacific
More than 85 percent of firms in Asia Pacific surveyed by Forrester Consulting believe that IoT will be the most strategic technology initiative for their organisation in a decade, higher than the global average of 80 percent. The November 2014 study surveyed IT and business decision makers in nearly 600 global firms in the retail, […]