Category: Asia

On-Demand Connectivity – the backbone of IoT

At a recent conference, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Minister for the Environment & Water Resources and Minister-in-Charge of Smart Nation, described the Internet of Things (IoT) as a “Tsunami of IT revolution”. With an estimated 30-50 billion devices expected to be connected by 2020, IoT is set to dramatically transform governments, industries, and consumers. So, […]

Smart cities in Asia are a necessity, not a luxury

In the third post of our blog series celebrating Mobile World Expo in Shanghai last week, we’re exploring the role that M2M communications has to play (and will continue to play) in the Asia Pacific region. In the near future, everyone will be dealing with enormous quantities of data from all areas of industry and […]

What’s up with Mark Zuckerberg? A man on a mission…

He’s a man on a mission, and when the man who created Facebook talks about mobile phones, people listen. In his keynote speech at MWC in Barcelona, he took some time to speak about WhatsApp, and its mission to connect one billion people across the globe. It’s no secret that Zuck’ has seen mobile as […]