Monthly Archives: September 2013

Retail Day (Retaildagen)

The Retaildagen took place in Stockholm on the 24th September, 2013. The event was organized by ComputerSweden. The main themes of the even were related to the future of retail and commerce. Many of the speakers highlighted the growing importance … Continue reading

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Mobile Healthcare and Wellness

Healthcare is one of the main sectors where the adoption of mobile technologies and M2M communications can have a strong impact both on improving current operations and enabling new services.   Reducing the number of hospital visits through remote patient monitoring, … Continue reading

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IEEE PIMRC 2013, Toward 5G?

I attended IEEE PIMRC’13 conference held at London last week in order to present a paper about 5 GHz dense Wi-Fi capacity. Overall, the conference itself was very useful to get updated both from industries and academia. From key note … Continue reading

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A wide spectrum of opinions were shared at a PIMRC panel session on shared spectrum access

The first day of the PIMRC 2013 conference In London, 8-11 september 2013,  there was a panel session about shared spectrum access. The proposal came from partners in the METIS project working with spectrum issues, the members of the organizing committee … Continue reading

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A glimpse at the European Virtual Smart Grid Laboratory and a short tour of Ericsson Studio

On 16th and 17th of September, the EIT ICT Labs Node in Stockholm hosts a workshop on the activity status of the European Virtual Smart Grid Laboratory (EVSGL). The project, which started in 2011 under EIT’s Smart Energy Systems Action … Continue reading

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A survival guide for new PhD student in conference

You are a fresh PhD student who attended an international conference first time. You have an ambition to make your academic network, and you want to use the conference as a leverage. How are you supposed to do that? This … Continue reading

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IEEE PIMRC 2013, Day 2

My posting on the second day of IEEE PIMRC 2013 will focus on two keynote speeches in the morning. The first talk was given by Wen Tong at Huawei. When it comes to keynote speech, he is a “usual suspect”, … Continue reading

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IEEE PIMRC 2013, Day 1, part 2

This a second part of my note on the keynote speech at IEEE PIMRC 2013, Day 1. Lauri Oksanen from NSN gave another keynote speech. First of all, for those who think NSN stands for Nokia Siemens Networks, you’re wrong … Continue reading

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IEEE PIMRC 2013, Day 1, part 1

IEEE PIMRC, one of the most well-known conference for wireless researchers is held in London on 8th-11th September 2013. The inauguration of this year’s PIMRC was with a keynote speech by Stephen Pusey, CTO of Vodafone. Stephen talked about trends … Continue reading

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Business Network Research: Nordic dominance at the 29th IMP conference August 30-September 2 in Atlanta, Georgia

The IMP group (IMP = International marketing and purchasing) annually organizes a conference on business network research. The focus is on B2B marketing and how different actor interact when doing business. Major contributions has and are made by researchers from … Continue reading

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