By Steve Costello
NEW BLOG: A quick look back at Mobile World Livecontent from this year shows a growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the sexed-up sibling of M2M that will see 50 billion, 100 billion – keep the forecasts coming – devices of many shapes and forms connected to the internet in the not too distant future.
As with any nascent market, there are a number of landgrabs going on as the pioneers look to stake their claim. Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest earlier this year indicates that the search giant saw much more than a connected thermostat company; Cisco used its keynotes at CES and Mobile World Congress to talk-up the potential of the market, touting $19 trillion of profit and economic benefits over the next ten years.