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A Steady Mobile Payments Wave
The NFC (Near Field Communications, not National Football Conference) wave for payments is on the horizon. As Parks Associates’ Jennifer Kent suggests in the above video interview, progress on mobile payments is steady. An initiative to convert payment terminals to include NFC capability (EMV) by 2015 will be a big driver for mobile payments at…
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The Jury Is Out As To Who Will Bring It Together
“In some respects, the jury is still out,” said Frank LaBarbera, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Affinegy. LaBarbara was talking about the notion that there might not more than one entity, whether it is service provider, retailer or manufacturer, who brings together all the disparate devices in the home. In the above…
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Scaling Apps Through Open APIs
Unlocking the value of the data that already exists in various databases is what Steve Wilmott of co-founder and CEO of 3scale discusses in this interview. 3Scale helps entities create the Application Programming Interfaces and manage the back-end to allow proprietary databases to interface to mobile and other applications, such as connected TVs or even the…
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The Personal Cloud Is About Functionality
“Today we are really looking more at the functional side of the personal cloud, rather than just the storage,” said Brett Sappington of Parks Associates. In this interview, filmed at CONNECTIONS , Sappington was referring to the idea that features beyond storage are driving customers to adopt the use of cloud for doing things that…
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The Cloud as the Secret Sauce to Home Automation
The ability to inexpensively connect any device within the home to the cloud is allowing companies to create direct, long-term relationships with their customers. Shane Dyer, CEO of Arrayent, explains how this interconnection combined with the resulting rich data is changing the way organizations work. Dyer points out that, “Systems beats products.” That is, a…
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Connected Home at the Core of Telecom Success
“The connected home is no longer sort of a peripheral interest. It is core to the success and future of telecommunications services in our country and the world as well,” said Stuart Sikes, president of Parks Associates. Sikes was referring to how the co-location of the Parks Associates’ Connections Conference with TIA 2012 symbolizes the…