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Brussels

M2M: what does it mean?

For those of you not familiar, it means machine to machine.  What happens when mobile machines are being connected to a mobile network and start interacting with each other and with humans?   Some part of it is called ‘the internet of things’, which is also a difficult term to understand, let’s look at it as machines (parking readers, weather stations, …) starting to communicate and behave in a more knowledgeable way.  Hear more about it at the next event on 7/6

Rio de Janeiro

Empresa brasileira é vencedora do Navteq Global LBS Challenge 2010

A Navteq, anunciou no dia 27/05 que a empresa brasileira UYMobile foi a vencedora do Grande Prêmio da edição para América do Sul da competição Navteq Global LBS Challenge 2010. O ganhadora receberá mais de 735 mil dólares em dinheiro, licenças para dados e ferramentas e serviços.
A aplicação TouristicPoint da UYmobile é baseada na indicação […]

Brussels

ORANGE M2M center Director speaking on 7/6 event

Emmanuel Routier – Director International M2M Center of Orange speaker  will be speaking at 7/6 event.Rest of line-up: – MASTERNAUT – Sebastien Bartaud – Marketing & Product Development Director EuropeMaking mobile machines and individuals work together – PTOLEMUS CONSULTING GROUP – Frederic Bruneteau – Managing DirectorWireless M2M – bringing smart interactivity into the world of moving machines – IBM – Karl de Backer – IT Architect, Public SectorValue added services on a Mobility Broker Platform: the role of M2M in the pilot of Leuven– POTENCO – Rob Witters – CEOM2M from vending machines to solar panels  

Shanghai

MobileMonday and Ignite Shanghai – May 24 – from 3pm onwards

The GeeksOnAPlane Asia Tour will begin in Shanghai with a series of events on Monday, May 24th for the startup and tech community in Shanghai. All members of MobileMonday Shanghai are invited to participate in the various events that day. MobileMonday Shanghai will be hosting a cocktail from 5pm – 6:30pm following Ignite Shanghai. This event will feature happy hour 2 for 1 drink specials and will be open to all and a great way to connect with others in the Shanghai tech and startup communities. Following Mobile Monday Shanghai’s cocktail, you are invited to join GeeksOnAPlane for the Startup2Startup …

Kampala

UNICEF and Text to Change: how they are using technology in different ways

Donorland has been littered with pilot projects over the last ten years that took interesting technology and ideas and sought to make them work in the unforgiving African context. All too often they had little idea of what potential users actually wanted and once the funding ended, the water closed over them and that was that. There is now a second generation of ICT4D projects that seem to have learnt the lessons of these early failures. Russell Southwood spoke to Terra Weikel and Sean Blaschke of UNICEF and Bas Hoefman of Text to Change about how they are using technology …