Company Insight

Rise of the Macheen: a New Cloud Platform for Connected CE Devices

Authors: Sam Lucero, Practice Director, M2M & Embedded
Jonathan Collins, Principal Analyst, Wireless Healthcare and M2M

Published: 19 Apr 2011

Macheen, a privately-held connected device cloud platform provider, publicly launched March 2, 2011. The company was founded in January 2010 to offer a white-label service to enable consumer electronics (CE) vendors to offer their end-customers connectivity for their devices over cellular networks. It utilizes Sprint’s network in the US and KPN’s network in Europe on a wholesale basis to offer connectivity and counts Dell among its first customers. Dell uses Macheen to offer notebook PC connectivity service in Germany.

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