Category Archives: Business

To set the research agenda – Reflections from WCNC 2014 and the paper review for WCNC 2015

About WCNC The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conferences (WCNC) cover a number of research areas and include the following tracks with a mix of papers and panel discussions: Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design … Continue reading

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IoT workshop in Oslo – about IoT initiatives and about Norway as moderate innovator

IoT and value networks In april 2014 a one day IoT conference was held in Oslo organized by the “Internet of Things Value Creation Network”, this is an orgaization with the objective to bring together actors from different industry sectors, research and … Continue reading

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IoT conference with sessions on Smart cities and Smart homes but also about spectrum management

EU event on IoT The 5th Annual Internet of Things European Summit: Shaping tomorrow’s European Internet landscape was held 3rd & 4th March 2014 in Brussels. It was organized by Forum Europe which is an independent EU policy debate specialist … Continue reading

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Challenges for smart energy grids – to combine ICT and energy systems and research

Smart energy networks and smart grids is often considered as a merge between ICT and energy networks or ICT supported energy networks. Research in the area is done both by information and communication people that start to look into energy … Continue reading

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Mobilize Your Business 2014

Mobilize Your Business event took place in Stockholm on the 6th of November, 2014. The event was organized by Mobilbusiness and Mobil in cooperation with Veckans Affärer and VA Telekommarknaden. Different companies presented a wide range of use cases of … Continue reading

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Samsung smartphone profits plummet

It’s not only smartphones that get thinner, also the profits in Android phones. Samsung recently revealed drops in smartphone sales in their 3rd Quarter report. Compared to 3Q2013 the Samsung sales where down 8% whereas the market in total grew by … Continue reading

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ITS 2014 in Brussels: Techno-economic analysis from different perspectives

The 25th European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunication Society (ITS2014) was held 23th and 25th June 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.  The event was hosted by iMinds (Vrije University of Brussels) and SMIT (Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication) and the local hosts … Continue reading

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IMP 2014 conference in Bordeaux: IoT services seem to be an unexploited area for business network researchers

I attended the 30th annual IMP conference organized by the KEDGE business school in Bordeaux September 4-6. Key themes are about how and why business networks are developed and maintained, typically how suppliers and customer develop relations and interact. Our … Continue reading

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IMP2014 – A brief overview

On the 4th and 5th of September 2014, I attended the International Marketing and Purchasing Conference (IMP 2014) in Bordeaux, France. The event was organized by KEDGE Business school. IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) group’s researchers are focused on the studies of business networks … Continue reading

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Fiber Access changes gears

You may not have noticed, but broadband internet access in Sweden has reached “critical mass”. At some point, during the last year or so, this feature in homes went from a luxury item for a selected few, to a sanitary … Continue reading

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