M2M (machine-to-machine communications) may yet save wireless carriers while offering consumers and businesses innovative new services. While carriers madly search for alternative revenue streams, such as wireless health products, they continue hoping smartphones and data plan revenues will save their core mobile phone business. This “churn/burn” strategy is worsened by the large number of cellular […]

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Mobile marketing performance helps marketers better understand campaign results. Yet, as analytics transitions to mobile from online, app and website measurement needs improvement so marketers better understand consumer sentiment. Andy Bovingdon, VP of Product Marketing for Bango remarks about the change in consumer adoption of mobile: “…Analytics is less about measuring clicks and more about […]

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Wireless healthcare is a rapidly expanding industry that’s changing health monitoring. The Health and Life Sciences group at Qualcomm is one of the key companies driving wireless solutions in healthcare. Welcome to “wireless band-aids,” wireless sensors,  remote health monitoring, pill containers that kindly remind you to take your meds and devices that measure fitness. Behind […]

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The debate whether cell phone radiation causes or contributes to brain cancer continues. Worldwide, one in 29,000 men and one in  38,000 women develop brain tumors each year from all causes. Residents in developed nations are twice as likely to develop cancer than in developing countries. But scientists, governments, the wireless industry and the public […]

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Every so often in human history one person shares a vision so compelling and mind shattering that we take pause. Pranav Mistry is an exciting, visionary who’s having a dramatic impact on sixth sense mobile augmented reality. MIT’s Pranav Mistry, the inventor of “sixth sense mobile technology” made a presentation at the TEDIndia 2009 meeting. Since then, interest […]

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There’s a lot of discussion these days about mobile devices–phones, iPads, Kindles, netbooks. I suppose a car or truck is a mobile device too. Although it weighs several thousand pounds, put gas in it, start it up and it moves. It’s mobile. But a fridge is not a mobile device, unless you’ve installed wheels under […]

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