"In order to strengthen Red Bend's position in the M2M market, the company has joined the M2M Consortium (organizer: Acca Networks) in Japan. At the M2M Consortium, a diverse variety of businesses, such as operators, machine and device manufacturers, engineering companies, software vendors and integrators, come together to share information and to ensure mutual connectivity between machines and networks. Keeping tabs on the state of the market, the Consortium seeks concrete solutions to issues in need of them, and continues to promote M2M technologies and development of the M2M market.
Kazuhiro Abe, President of Red Bend Software Japan, said, 'M2M is a strategic market for Red Bend. We intend to leverage the adoption by Sharp as an opportunity to further expand our position in the domestic industrial handheld terminal market as well as other M2M applications.'"
