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Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Also read Mobility Charts Weekly The cellular M2M connectivity service market grew 26.2 percent in 2011, rising from 87.7 million cumulative connections in 2010 to 110.6 million cumulative connections globally in 2011. Read Original Content Japan's Tokyo Electric Power plans to in... (more)

Mobile Expert Video Series: Zenware's Jody Sedrick

I had the honor of being invited to be the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Idaho Business League yesterday.  It is a rare time that I get to attend an event close to home.  The conference was packed, and we had a great time together discussing enterprise mobility and what it means to the businesses of Idaho. While attending the conference, I met up with Jody Sedrick, one of the founders of Zenware.  Zenware develops cloud based mobile applications that are integrated with Quickbooks, a huge market!  This video is an interview that I did with Mr. Sedrick. Upcoming ... (more)

Data Market Chat: Hjálmar Gíslason discusses DataMarket.com

Image via CrunchBase With Iceland’s DataMarket.com, Founder Hjálmar Gíslason is on his fourth startup, and ready to expand overseas. Focused upon becoming “Google for datanumbers,” DataMarket concerns itself with collecting and providing access to quantitative data; numbers from governments, international agencies, and commercial providers around the world. Alongside the business of collecting data and making it available for download, DataMarket has invested in providing tools with which users can visualize data (typically in the form of a graph) and even compare results from ... (more)

F5’s Certified Firewall Protects Against Large-Scale Cyber Attacks

F5 Networks on Tuesday announced that the latest release of the F5 BIG-IP product family has been certified by ICSA Labs as a network firewall, helping customers protect their public-facing websites from today’s massive cyber attacks. The newly certified solution handles eight times more traffic at the same cost of the closest competitor’s solution. “F5 provides an entirely new and more intelligent approach for defending public-facing web properties and DNS services against harmful attacks,” said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of Product Management at F5. “Many of the world’s largest... (more)

Enterprise Development: Flex or HTML5?

This article is a transcript from a recorded conversation I had with Anatole Tartakovsky and Victor Rasputnis – my business partners at Farata Systems. This conversation took place on the mountain after the day of skiing. Yakov. There are many ways of creating Web applications and creating them for the enterprises is not the same as developing a Web site for a pizzeria in your neighborhood. During the last five years we’ve been using mainly Adobe Flex for development of the front end of Web applications. Flex applications work in a well known and predictable run-time environment c... (more)