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 If you want a quick intro or refresher on what the Smart Grid is, listen to NOVA | PBS’s February 23 podcast “Toward a Smart Electric Grid.” This five-minute video explains in plain language how a grid that can monitor and manage itself in real time will save energy, ensure a reliable electric supply, and integrate alternative energy sources including electric cars and home solar arrays. . . . → Read More: Smart Grid: What it Is, Why It Matters   [ March 22, 2011 to March 24, 2011. ] Once again, the global wireless industry will gather in Orlando, FL for the Cellular Telephone Industry Association’s (CTIA’s) Spring show. This year we’ll hear about LTE network roll-outs, cool connected devices and a rash of new high- and low-end handsets, plus the services, applications and cool new technologies that keep them all running. Cloud-based mobile services such as mobile wallet, mobile health, context-aware mobile advertising and location-based services (LBS) will also claim their share of the limelight. . . . → Read More: Wireless Industry Gathering: CTIA Spring in Orlando, 3/22-24/2011  Comments are closed  Events, News  Cloud, connected devices, CTIA, Internet of Things, LBS, location-based services, M2M, mobile advertising, mobile wallet, Mobile Web  When you head to the Mall for holiday gift-shopping this season, take along one of the new location-enabled shopping apps to help you find bargains and zero in that “perfect gift.” Laurie Lamberth’s December Connected World column, “With a Little Help from my Friends: Location-Based Shopping,” describes how these helpful assistants can earn you [...] . . . → Read More: Are you a Planner? Know-it-All? Socialite? Slacker? Pick a Location-Based App for Holiday Shopping with a Little Help from Laurie Lamberth Comments are closed News check-in, connected devices, context aware, indoor LBS, LBS, LBS shopping, location-based services, mobile advertising, mobile coupons, mobile social networking, wayfinding  [ November 17, 2010; 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM. ] Location-based social networking and shopping applications have stolen the wireless stage during 2010 — and will do so again at the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley’s upcoming Mobile Forum on November 17 — “Check In Here: the Intersection of Hyperlocal and Mobile.” Laurie Lamberth will lead off this event with a 15-minute Analyst Overview, which will cover the history, status, trends and hot players in the LBS social and shopping appsphere. 2010 has been “the year of location services,” at least with respect to consumer applications. In January, . . . → Read More: Check In Here: Lamberth Kicks Off Telecom Council’s Mobile-Social Forum on Nov 17 Comments are closed Events, News check-in, Cloud, indoor LBS, LBS shopping, location-based services, mobile social networking, Mobile Web, OOH, out-of-home advertising, Telecom Council, wayfinding  This post celebrates one of the most amazing comebacks in recent memory: Jerry Brown’s apparent re-election as Governor of California. Whether you agree with the voters of California or not, Jerry Brown’s record is impressive: elected in 1974 as the youngest California Governor at 36, Brown will re-enter the office as the state’s oldest Governor at twice this age — 72– in January, 2011. Ironically, in the same poll California voters rejected the “Legalize and Tax Marijuana Act” (Proposition 19). While Brown was Governor the first time, there were lots of rumors about the ‘Guv and his celebrity girlfriend Linda Ronstadt smoking pot. . . . → Read More: Welcome Back, Jerry  The U.S. mobile industry has an upbeat feel this fall: LTE is finally here with MetroPCS’s scoop-the-big-guys Vegas launch, sexy new devices such as Samsung’s Android-inside Galaxy Tab(let) are generating excitement, and location intelligence is enabling huge crop of context-aware consumer and enterprise apps and services. What’s Hot? Location, location, location: context-aware mobile ad and marketing platforms. Android everywhere. Apps for your car, TV and appliances. Mobile payments and mGiving. Social-social-social-social-social. The Cloud brings large-scale computing resources to miniaturized mobile devices. And more… . . . → Read More: Not your Father’s Wireless Networks: LBS, Android, Car Apps, mGiving & Mobile Social Steal the Show at CTIA Enterprise/Apps and Mobilize 2010 Comments are closed News android, check-in, Cloud, connected car, connected devices, context aware, CTIA, GigaOm, LBS, LBS shopping, location-based services, M2M, mGiving, mobile social networking, Mobile Web, Mobilize, Wireless Hall of Fame, Wireless History Foundation Shopping Matters When it Comes to Location-Based Apps: New GigaOm Research Note from Laurie Lamberth GigaOm Pro has again tapped Laurie Lamberth to share her analysis and insights on the wireless industry, this time in a Research Note about the fresh set of location-based (LBS) consumer shopping apps that hit the scene in August, 2010. While these announcements — including shopping apps Shopkick, ShopAlerts, AisleBuyer and Facebook’s scene-stealing Places service — all landed in the headlines within two weeks, they represent the crest of a location services wave that’s been building from some time. Why is LBS so hot, all of a sudden? . . . → Read More: Shopping Matters When it Comes to Location-Based Apps: New GigaOm Research Note from Laurie Lamberth Comments are closed News Cloud, GigaOm, indoor LBS, LBS, LBS shopping, location-based services, mobile social networking, Mobile Web, OOH, out-of-home advertising, wayfinding  “WHATEVER happened to that “internet of things” promised a decade or so ago?” Good question, coming from The Economist, in their August 13 blog post covering Laurie Lamberth’s Internet of Things research paper. . . . → Read More: Chattering Objects: The Economist Covers Lamberth’s Internet of Things Research Report Comments are closed News Cloud, connected devices, Internet of Things, RFID, The Economist, ubiquitous computing  General Electric’s (GE) acquisition of Attenti, an Israeli company that makes people trackers currently used for criminal offenders and Alzheimer’s patients signals a big change in the industry: bigger players with fatter wallets are entering the segment to capture M2M’s unique value proposition. . . . → Read More: Big Link Enters M2M Value Chain with GE/Attenti Deal – My first appearance on Connected World Blog  [ October 5, 2010; 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. ] Join us at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to recognize the pioneers and leaders of the U.S. mobile industry on the night before this fall’s CTIA Entertainment & Applications conference. . . . → Read More: Recognize Wireless’s Best and Brightest — Wireless Hall of Fame Dinner at CTIA Fall |
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