Peggy Smedley discusses AT&T’s Emerging Devices Organization and the group’s new Website designed to provide manufacturers with the resources they need to launch a device to market. She then compares this news with what others have said about the difficulties of working with AT&T’s current device certification process. She also talks about the relationship between M2M and social networking, highlighting news about a new ereader that has social networking capabilities integrated into its design. http://www.m2mmag.com
Robert Barnacle, president, DataOnline LLC, discusses his company’s remote monitoring solutions and some of the major industry verticals that DataOnline serves, such as the industrial gas industry. He also talks about how DataOnline is a one-stop-shop for each aspect of an entire M2M solution, which is what differentiates them from the competition. http://www.dataonline.com
Robert Barnacle, president, DataOnline LLC, and Tom Mason, president and founder, Technical Gas Products Inc., talk about how Technical Gas Products is using DataOnline’s remote monitoring technology to improve the delivery of its oxygen tanks to its customers. Mason explains the factors that resulted in him selecting DataOnline’s solution over the competition as well as the success they have seen with the solution thus far. http://www.tgpoxygen.com
Peggy Smedley, along with Laura Billingsley, managing editor, M2M magazine, talk about some of the announcements to come out of the Consumer Electronics Show that didn’t receive as much attention as they should have in the M2M space. They discuss Lok8U’s integration of T-Mobile’s Micro 3FF SIM cards into its GPS locator devices, which are worn like a wristwatch and come in different designs, for both children and adults. They talked about Samsung’s new ereader devices, which enable users to write on the screen and provide both Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame, one of the latest connected consumer devices to run on AT&T’s wireless network, was also discussed. http://www.m2mmag.com