Today we are participants in the new age of information access and
consumption for personal and business use. New types of information and new
ways of using it are driving up demand for anytime and anywhere access,
feeding a need for always-on and always-connected devices. Connectivity
changes everything!
This is nowhere more evident than in systems that combine the new generation
of smart embedded devices with powerful end-to-end services that integrate
smart things to better serve and simplify the user’s environment.
Deployment of these services involves a level of complexity that many
embedded developers may not have dealt with before. These devices are found
everywhere – in the pocket or purse, in the car, in the home, and of course
in the office. They are symbols of the next generation of Net-centric
computing and communications convergence.
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