TMCnet Machine to Machine Solutions Week in Review

- Alert) Global Enterprise, Vodafone's specialist enterprise organization, signed an agreement with Netcomm Wireless, a developer of broadband products, which has the company supplying Vodafone with M2M cellular modems for its global M2M business. The official word from Netcomm is that the M2M IP modems being supplied have been custom designed to meet the "global deployment requirements of Vodafone and its partners."

Telit Wireless (News - Alert) Solutions, a global vendor of high-quality M2M modules and value-added services, introduced the DE910-DUAL Mini PCIe for commercial and industrial computer markets. To easily integrate wireless connectivity into devices, the mini PCIe form factor has become a popular standard adopted by connected device manufacturers. Supporting 3.1Mbps downlink rates and 1.8Mbps uplink rates; it has become North America's first full-featured EV-DO mini PCIe modem. Fully compatible with its HSPA

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TMCnet Machine to Machine Solutions Week in Review

- Alert), a company that specializes in offering mobile computing and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications products and solutions, has recently unveiled AirPrime SL9090, a multimode product joining to its award-winning AirPrime SL Series. The new multimode module product, AirPrime SL9090 is scheduled for commercial release in the fourth quarter of this year, offering device manufacturers the ability to operate on networks that use either HSPA

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The Connected Product Revolution: 5 Steps to M2M End-to-End Solutions

Join AT&T and Axeda to learn five steps to a successful M2M solution.

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TMCnet's Machine to Machine Solutions Week in Review

The Connected Product Revolution: 5 Steps to M2M End-to-End Solutions

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TMCnet Machine to Machine Solutions Week in Review

- Alert) Smart Wi-Fi Routers, which is available through the Apple App Store. According to company officials, the app monitors Internet connected home devices such as game consoles, iPads, PCs, audio/video streaming players, etc and notifies users about their status. Users can enable or disable Internet connection to these devices on-the-go via their iPhones.

Axeda (News - Alert) Corp’s M2M Cloud Service has been named a 2011 ‘M2M Evolution Product of the Year’ by TMCnet. With the Axeda M2M Cloud Service, the company’s customers deliver innovative M2M solutions and optimize their business processes with data from their connected products. TMCnet recognized it for its unique ability to cut the cost and complexity out of connecting and managing products.

Another report this week revealed some other trends in the industry. A family locator service is one of the many benefits of a cell phone and GPS. Your teenager might hate you for using it, but the peace of mind you get will be worth the stare your kids give you before they walk out the door. According to a report from Berg Insight, locator services will see a big increase in the next four years from 16 million in 2011 to more than 70 million by 2016.

To read more industry stories from this week, check out the Machine to Machine Solutions community! Stay tuned each week for the latest in news, company announcements and other industry trends.

Want to learn more about M2M technologies? Don’t miss the M2M Evolution Conference, collocated with ITEXPO West 2012 taking place Oct. 2-5, in Austin, TX. Stay in touch with everything happening at M2M Evolution Conference. Follow us on Twitter.

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M2M Brings a Technological Revolution (But no Machine Uprising)

AT&T services simplify deployment of M2M wireless solutions by providing expert assistance and tools to help define, build and support the M2M solution that's right for you.

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Coca-Cola Happiness Machine to Appear at the World of Coca-Cola This Summer

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Terminal 101: Control Time Machine from the Command Line

Every Monday, we'll show you how to do something new and simple with Apple's built-in command line application. You don't need any fancy software, or a knowledge of coding to do any of these. All you need is a keyboard to type 'em out!

Time Machine is Apple’s answer to backup. It’s simple, it’s elegant, and it just works. However, you can still use the backup utility built into your Mac through the command line and over SSH. Very handy for those times when you may not have physical (or screen sharing) access to your Mac remotely.

In this week’s tip, we’ll show you some of the basics of backing up your Mac using Time Machine through the Terminal and using the tmutil program.

It should be noted that in order to use the tmutil program, you must be running Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or later.

Enabling / Disabling Time Machine

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Unlikely Vending Machine Business Takes Off With Automated Retailing

By Steve AndersonContributing TMCnet Writer
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Vending machines are nothing new for most of us. Chances are we've bought a snack or a drink or maybe even rented a movie recently from one of them. In places like Japan, the vending machine has been known to offer just about anything under the sun, including some things you'd never expect. But for one man, former Los Angeles Rams player Shannon Illingworth, vending machines have taken on a whole new life.

Illingworth's venture, called Automated Vending Technologies, aspires to be one of the big names in automated retailing, and considering that the International Business Times ranks his company as the third-fastest growing company in California, it looks like he's well on his way.

Automated Vending Technologies' offerings, meanwhile, start from the basic – a vending machine that dispenses health and beauty products in much the same way a standard vending machine operates – to the wholly unexpected, like a vending machine that comes equipped with rolls of wallpaper. One vending machine showed what appeared to be gift bags in the midst of an upscale clothing store. The list didn't stop there, with other offerings listed including things like books, magazines, electronics, food and beverage items, and more.

This is, of course, a game-changer in terms of the way that many small businesses, especially those that focus on retail, operate. Vending machines do not require employees to be on hand, just an occasional restocking and regular maintenance exams to ensure that the machines are working to their fullest capacity. They generally don't require store fronts, just a comparatively small strip of real estate on which they can sit, maybe only the size of a master bedroom closet. They can take payments by a variety of methods, starting with straight cash payments and going all the way up to mobile-to-mobile payment schemes in which you use a phone handset equipped with Near Field Communications systems to scan your phone and make payments directly from your account.

A retail operation can suddenly be scaled down to the size of an old-fashioned photo booth, in which one employee is on hand to answer any questions about the products and services offered, as well as to maintain the vending machines that handle the actual business. Theft becomes nigh-impossible, especially with a security camera to watch the vending machines' cash drawers, if it even takes cash in the first place. And a store's hours can effectively become 24-7, without the necessity of having a real person on hand.

The ramifications of such a system go far and wide--the impact of increased unemployment on an already shaky economy are sufficiently large to merit a book's worth of study--but with businesses looking for ways to save, many businesses may at least partially take on the vending machine concept as a way to boost their available hours without boosting their labor costs to match.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin


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