Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg delivered the first keynote for Ericsson at the world's foremost consumer electronics trade fair in Las Vegas on January 11. Vestberg described the potential inherent in intelligent, real-time communication when devices learn to manage simple tasks to help us through our daily lives. "When you start to use the combination of software, sensors, and hardware, then you can improve processes and enable new ideas to turn into business. The result will be greater than anyone can imagine," Vestberg told the audience of thousands in the room. Ericsson's CEO also announced onstage an industry-changing deal with Maersk Line, the world's largest shipping line which involves a inique GSM and satellite solution that will offer connectivity at sea. In his finale, Vestberg invited onstage Professor Carlo Ratti of MIT's Senseable Cities Lab to introduce a collaboration between Ericsson and MIT that will aim to reveal patterns of human behavior by looking at volumes in mobile data traffic. Wrapping up his CES appearance, he demonstrated new technology, so-called 'capacitive coupling', in which a photograph was transferred from a telephone, then hand-to-hand, through the human body, to the large screen without using radio signals. 'Ultimately, we are the network', he said in describing the research project. The keynote was also webcast live on www.cesweb.org.
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