When sailors aboard the Hapag-Lloyd Bangkok Express container ship want to phone a friend, they use a satellite phone – which is standard, but the costs of $2.25 per-minute are hard to swallow. To ease the burden on their pocketbooks, the ship will soon have an Intel Atom Z5xx-based communications system makeover. Mounted on the outside of the ship, and designed to withstand extreme temperatures, the Atom system will connect with the best available and most cost-effective network – such as 3G, satellite or Wi-Fi – to enable the crew to more easily communicate with people on shore. This is one example of the 15 billion devices expected to be connected to the Internet by 2015. Learn more: Embedded Internet.