Tag: China

20 years of text and it’s still a big part…

This week we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first SMS, sent by phone engineer, Neil Papworth, reading simply (and cheerfully): “Merry Christmas.” Since that day in 1992, the humble text message has come to change the way we interact with the world and each other. There are over 200,000 exchanged every second, so as […]

How is Gemalto going to take NFC and the SIM…

As defined by the NFC Forum, ‘Near Field Communication (NFC) technology makes life easier and more convenient for consumers around the world by making it simpler to make transactions, exchange digital content, and connect electronic devices with a touch.’   I like this description as it implies that NFC makes life easier and more convenient, in […]

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 […]