What's the most important enabler for Internet of Things applications? Cheap connectivity? Device management platforms? New radio technologies?

No, the smartphone. Our big M2M conversation observes that it's already become our digital Swiss Army Knife and that it and the tablet will prove to be the tools that allow us to knit our connected 'things' into our digital lifestyles...  and manage them.

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It's all very well planning for lots of things and their connections, but the real commercial action will be about solutions, say our Big Conversation experts. Or to put it another way, collecting data is important, but it's what you do with it that counts.  Plus we outline what some of these solutions/systems might actually look like: how about 'car as a service'?

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We've asked the question before so we thought we'd ask it again to see if anything has changed. What's the difference between M2M and the Internet of Things? There are some interesting replies here, including one respondent who maintains that neither definition is good or useful.
Let's try to find a term which might work better. 

Suggestions below.

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