Microsoft puts SPOT on stage
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft's announcement of its use of SPOT (Smart Personal Object Technology), which uses FM signals to send one-way information to small devices such as watches, shows the trend toward digital convergence. Bill Mitchell, Microsoft's general manager of SPOT, talked with InfoWorld Editor at Large Ephraim Schwartz about convergence, the Direct Band Network and SPOT, and the push for smart devices.
InfoWorld: Do you consider SPOT an example of digital convergence?
Mitchell: Certainly, but we also look at it as an example of disaggregation; where once you had a technology [wireless] that was at a premium, now you can build intelligence into any device that is small, with low power, and inexpensive.