The new year is here and Christmas seems like a distant memory (although my waistline is still expansive enough to remind me). By any account it’s going to be a busy year in the wireless sector. 2011 kicks off this week with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the annual funfair at which vendors display their latest gadgets and analysts predict what’s hot and what’s not. Among the 3D-TVs, HD cameras and tablet PCs, carriers and vendors including Verizon and Sierra Wireless are aggressively pushing machine-to-machine (M2M) devices and services for connecting vehicles — so much so, CES is quickly beginning to look like a car show. The advent of 4G (covered in previous editions of “ Unwired ”) makes...
