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We are very pleased to announce that we have added a Java 8 Day to EclipseCon 2014. Java 8 is scheduled to be released in March, close to the same time as EclipseCon, so we thought it would be great to have EclipseCon attendees participate in the launch of the...

At EclipseCon Europe 2012 (November, 2012) we first announced the creation of the Eclipse M2M Working Group. IBM, Sierra Wireless, Eurotech and Band XI had the vision to create an open source community for M2M software development. The initial projects that made up the community were Paho, Mihini and Koneki...

The EclipseCon 2014 program and schedule was announced earlier this month. Ian Bull, the EclipseCon program committee chair, and the entire PC did a great job reviewing close 300 proposals to select 120 talks and 14 tutorials. The final results is a great program. It seems to me EclipseCon 2014...

We are getting great feedback on the design concepts for an updated Eclipse logos. Changing an existing logo can bring out a lot of passion in people and based the feedback changing the Eclipse logo is no exception. We started with four different concepts. Based on the feedback two seem...

As I mentioned last month we are going through a process of creating designs for an update Eclipse logo. We had some great ideas submitted through our crowd source project and now it is time to test out some of the better ones. Starting today we are going to display...

1. Wunderbar – looks like an interesting kit of hardware and software for IoT applications. They seem to be using MQTT for the message protocol. 2. Comparing bandwidth consumption between MQTT, AMQP and TCP – perfect illustration on why an IoT protocol like MQTT is needed. 3. New MQTT-SN (Sensor...

Interesting links for the IoT and M2M Industry. 1. Axeda support for new SalesForce1 platform – SalesForce had their huge Dreamforce conference last week and a major theme was IoT. Axeda, a partner in Eclipse M2M, nailed it on the importance of machine data. 2. Amazon announced Kinesis service –...

IoT and M2M industry desperately needs to have open protocols that promote interoperability between different solutions and applications. The current state of the industry is a set of proprietary or best vertical oriented protocols that lead to silos of technology, not a network. MQTT is gaining a lot of interest...

Some interesting links from the IoT and M2M industry. 1. Adding OAuth to MQTT A couple of blog post from people thinking of adding OAuth to MQTT. Identity and authentication are issues that really have not been suitable addressed in IoT. It is great to see people talking about it...

Over the last 2 months, I have had the opportunity to attend three M2M events: M2M Summit, M2M World Congress and the ETSI M2M Workshop. All of these events had a significant participation by the big European telcos. In Europe and the US, the telcos are pumping a large amount...