Earlier today, Verizon has invited developers and reporters to its innovation center in San Francisco (201 Spear Street, 9th floor, there’s another one in Boston) for a showcase in the updated show room. If you did not already know about this, Verizon has committed quite a bit of effort to help developers build the next generation apps that use wireless networks. Obviously, it does so hoping that developers’ success will translate into tangible needs of its own networks, and for developers, having the backing of a large carrier such as Verizon can help with things that small structures could hardly afford or handle, such as FDA approval and analog radio expertise. Verizon knows that a healthy ecosystem is key to its own future, especially in the machine to machine (M2M) business where it is nearly impossible to predict what the next big thing is going to be. Most likely, it will be a ton of smaller things that will drive its business. Among the demos presented, a few have caught my eyes: (more…)
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