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The installed base of connected vending machines grew by 18 percent in 2014

Gothenburg, Sweden – February 26, 2015: The global installed base of connected vending machines grew by 18.4 percent to 1.16 million units in 2014. Around 0.56 million of these machines have been installed in North America, whereas 0.15 million...

Telekom Austria’s A1 arm in NFV test

Operator partners with NEC-owned NetCracker for virtual modem field trial. Telekom Austria on Tuesday announced its latest successful test of network functions virtualisation (NFV), this time carrying out a field trial of a virtual modem. The basic functions of a broadband...

The number of homes with smart thermostats doubled in 2014

According to a new research report from Berg Insight, the number of North American and European homes with a smart thermostat grew by 105 percent to 3.2 million in 2014. The North American market recorded a 107 percent growth...

Shipments of connected wearables will reach 168 million in 2019

According to a new report from the research firm Berg Insight, shipments of connected wearables reached 19.0 million in 2014, up from 5.9 million devices in the previous year. Growing at a compound annual growth rate of 54.7 percent,...

Berg Insight says 70 percent of Europe’s electricity customers will have smart meters by 2022

According to a new report from the research firm Berg Insight, 70 percent of electricity customers in Europe will have smart meters by 2022. At the end of 2014, there were 67.9 million smart electricity meters in the EU28+2...

Boot up: smarter assistants, the new Apple, untangling headphones

Plus Samsung's challenge, the US's late, late majority, more Android permissions woes, the wearables puzzle, and more Five things to know about Siri and Google Now's growing intelligence Lawrence Flynn is CEO of Artificial Solutions, which makes natural language processing...

UK-made custom smartwatch adopts Android Wear

Following in Google’s Project Ara footsteps, a British startup has created Android-powered modular smartwatch that can monitor health data and add GPS A London startup Blocks has adopted Google’s new Android Wear to make a customisable smartwatch that allows users...

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