Harbor Research Inc. Launches "Currents," a Free Newsletter on Internet-Enabled Pervasive Computing and Intelligent Device Networking

Bi-Weekly Publication Will Offer Harbor's Big-Picture View of the "Pervasive Internet" Phenomenon Each Issue to Include Provocative Think-Pieces, Company and Technology Highlights, and Easy Download of Harbor White Papers and Charts

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Harbor Research Inc. Launches "Currents," a Free Newsletter on Internet-Enabled Pervasive Computing and Intelligent Device Networking

Bi-Weekly Publication Will Offer Harbor's Big-Picture View of the "Pervasive Internet" Phenomenon

Each Issue to Include Provocative Think-Pieces, Company and Technology Highlights, and Easy Download of Harbor White Papers and Charts

BOSTON, MA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, (PRWEB) July 23, 2003 -- Harbor Research, Inc. has launched a free, HTML-email newsletter called "Currents," intended to keep subscribers informed of developments in the explosive arena of Internet-based device networking and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication.

To be published bi-weekly, each issue of "Currents" will include provocative think-pieces, round-ups of the most significant Pervasive events, news about Harbor's ongoing research and consulting activities, and easy access to the company's growing library of free downloads, including white papers and full-color charts and diagrams.

" Our first 'Currents,' on July 15, 2003, received an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response," said Glen Allmendinger, President of Harbor Research. "'Currents' clearly fills a need for ongoing, big-picture perspective on the Pervasive Internet, delivered directly to subscribers' in-boxes."

Harbor Research was the first research/consulting firm to focus aggressively on the vast business opportunities arising from Internet-connected products and devices. Harbor's origins are in embedded systems and industrial automation -- the fields where the vision of pervasive device networking was born, and where many of the core technical problems were grappled with and solved long ago.

" Currents," like all of Harbor's work, represents an overarching, big-picture view of the next great era of the Information Age -- device data transmitted and analyzed automatically via the Internet, and used as the basis for system optimization, actionable business strategy, and new modes of customer interaction and service, such as predictive maintenance.

"Unlike most of our competition, Harbor's take on all this is quite holistic," continued Mr. Allmendinger. "For example, you see many advisory firms today encouraging companies to develop a so-called 'wireless strategy' -- as if wireless were the whole picture. Of course wireless is crucial, but it's merely one piece of a very large and interwoven puzzle. The fact is, wireless connectivity is essential in some cases, optional in others, and in some cases it's completely irrelevant. Companies don't need to develop a 'wireless strategy' any more than they need to develop an 'AC powerline strategy' or a 'twisted pair' strategy. What they need to develop is a global enterprise-automation and services strategy that leverages any connectivity and data-analysis technologies necessary."

ABOUT HARBOR'S "CURRENTS" NEWSLETTER
Harbor Research's "Currents" is free, and subscription is open to anyone interested. To subscribe, visit this URL:
http://www.mailermailer.com/x?oid=03675o

Harbor is also maintaining a Web-based archive of "Currents" at this URL:
http://harborresearch.com/currents/

ABOUT THE PERVASIVE INTERNET
The "Pervasive Internet" is Harbor Research's term for the use of the Internet to network, monitor, and analyze everyday electronic and electro-mechanical products and devices. The social and business implications will include optimization and automation of almost every enterprise function, integration and full visibility of the supply chain, predictive maintenance and other new modes of customer service, and dramatically enhanced enterprise efficiency and profitability.

ABOUT HARBOR RESEARCH, INC.
Harbor Research Inc. has been a leader in providing strategic consulting and research services to leaders in communications, computing, control, and content since 1983.

The firm has built extended relationships with larger multi-line companies including AT&T, ABB, General Electric, Danaher, Eaton, Emerson, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, Hughes, IBM, Intel, Invensys, Lucent, Motorola, Rockwell, Siemens, Texas Instruments, as well as focused growth companies such as EMC, Cadence Design, Brooks/PRI Automation, Conexant, Qualcomm, SAP and PTC.

Harbor is organized around emergent and disruptive opportunities in high technology, with a unique focus on the business impact of the Pervasive Internet: the use of the Internet to network virtually any device or systems via embedded technologies to create a "digital nervous system" for global business and unleash entirely new modes of client interaction and service delivery.

HARBOR PRESS RELEASE ARCHIVE
Harbor Research press releases are archived at this URL:
http://harborresearch.com/pr/

Copyright 2003 Harbor Research Inc. All rights reserved.

CONTACT
Ms. Eileen Crum
Director of Research
Harbor Research, Inc.
ecrum@harborresearch.com
1.800.595.9368 x 23 (U.S. only)
415.615.9400 x 23

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