Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Ericsson: 70% of the entire world subscribes to a mobile service

"future growth of the mobile industry is in machine-to-machine communications in such areas as smart metering, transportation tracking, digital signage, and connected appliances and mobile broadband cameras"

"the global mobile market contains over five billion subscribers, growing at a rate of 2 million per day"

July 9, 2010

http://www.betanews.com/article/Ericsson-70-of-the-entire-world-subscribes-to-a-mobile-service/1278695396

Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson is responsible for all kinds of wireless equipment, from cell site infrastructure to consumer premises equipment to mobile broadband chips. So when they talk about the industry, it would behoove you to pay attention.

Today, Ericsson announced its estimate that the global mobile market contains over five billion subscribers, growing at a rate of 2 million per day.

This is an extremely significant estimation, because according to estimates by the United Nations and the U.S. census bureau, the entire human population of the earth is only about 6.8 billion.

If the market grew by 2 million additions per day and the population remained static, the entire world would become mobile subscribers in just 2 and a half years. Ten years ago, the company says there were only 720 million subscribers.

Today's estimate comprises all wireless subscribers, and Ericsson says that more than 500 million of these are 3G subscriptions. The company says mobile broadband is growing at a similar pace to wireless as a whole, and that it expects to reach 3.4 billion by 2015.

Of course, individual subscribers are only part of the picture. Ericsson says a key component to the future growth of the mobile industry is in machine-to-machine communications in such areas as smart metering, transportation tracking, digital signage, and connected appliances and mobile broadband cameras.

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TCG: Mobile Phone Work Group for Mobile Trusted Module (MTM) Specification for mobile devices:

The MTM, like the TPM, protects keys and other secrets while a platform is switched off and only enables keys (and secrets) to be used by the proper entity when the MTM is securely switched on.

http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/files/resource_files/8791DAF9-1D09-3519-ADC146DBA39E8A6D/Final_spec_overview_CTIA_sept_13.pdf

TCG’s mobile phone work group, whose members include Agere Systems, AMD, ARM, Atmel,Authentec, Broadcom, Certicom Corporation, CESG, Ericsson, ETRI, France Telecom, Freescale,Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi,IBM, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Infineon, Intel, InterDigital Communications, Lenovo,Lexar Media, M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, NTRUCryptosystems, Philips, Renesas Technology, Ricoh Company, SafeNet, Sandia National Laboratories,Seagate Technology, Siemens AG, Signacert, Sinosun, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Sun Microsystems,Symantec, Symbian Ltd., Toshiba, Utimaco Safeware AG, VeriSign, Vodafone, Wave Systems and Winbond have been working to identify security threats, standardized approaches to them, and implementation of Trusted Computing concepts. These companies have also participated and provided their experience in the Mobile Trusted Module Specifcation development process.

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TCG: Mobile Phone Work Group for Mobile Trusted Module (MTM) Specification for mobile devices:

http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/files/temp/6443B207-1D09-3519-AD3180491A6DF1F5/MPWG%20Selected_Mobile_Phone_Use_Case_Analyses_v1.pdf

Secret keys derived in previous GBA_U processes, PKI private keys, and any other credentials, which are needed to derive the Master Secret (Ks_local), shall be stored in a trusted way in nonvolatile memory of the terminal (through the MTM seal mechanism) and accessed only by the secure channel software.

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Nokia: "There are billions of machines waiting to be able to communicate"-"Let your machines talk,..."

http://www.nokia.com/NOKIA_COM_1/About_Nokia/Press/White_Papers/pdf_files/m2m-white-paper-v4.pdf

Ultimately, M2M solutions are created for increasing the profits and competitiveness of a company through more efficient processes, better customer service or new ways of doing things. M2M is about connecting people, devices and systems. M2M is about letting your machines talk.

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Red Bend Marks First Quarter of 2010 with 750 Million Sales

http://m2m.tmcnet.com/topics/m2mevolution/articles/88435-red-bend-marks-first-quarter-2010-with-750.htm

"strongest quarter ever in shipments"

June 14, 2010

Red Bend Software, the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), recorded stellar performance in the first quarter of 2010. Its vRapid Mobile and vDirect Mobile software products were embedded in 70 million mobile phones and connected devices, bringing the company's total shipments to 750 million.

According to Yoram Salinger, Red Bend Software CEO, growing worldwide adoption of mobile software management across mobile phones and other segments of the mobile device market -- including telematics and M2M -- led to our strongest quarter ever in shipments.

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Dick Lynch, Verizon CTO, is Inaugural Recipient of Qualcomm’s 25th Anniversary Technology Innovation Partner Award

July 9, 2010

http://www.ttkn.com/business/dick-lynch-verizon-cto-is-inaugural-recipient-of-qualcomm%E2%80%99s-25th-anniversary-technology-innovation-partner-award-2-2252.html

Qualcomm and Verizon Wireless formed a strategic alliance to launch nPhase, a joint venture aimed at accelerating the adoption of machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communications and advancing the evolution of smart services worldwide.

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