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Smart Internet Connected Appliances: The Trojan Horse in Your Kitchen
Exactly who gets smarter when you bring a connected appliance into your house?
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Mobile Phone Separation Anxiety Is Real and It's Getting Worse
You know that uncomfortable feeling you get when your phone rings but you can’t answer it? Well that feeling is more than a digital itch: it may signal a new technology-driven malady that is impacting your ability to think.
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Amazon Echo vs. Google Home: Who's the Real Winner in Voice?
New voice-enabled devices have proven to be a breakout hit with consumers in 2016. For many, this opportunity represents a land grab as large and important as when Apple first opened the iOS App Store in 2008. Google now processes roughly 40,000 search queries every second. This translates to
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Connected Vehicles Can Protect Drivers, Brands
There are a lot of risks for companies that have to operate fleets as part of their operations — from insurance issues to potential damage to brand reputation. Fleet vehicles branded with a company’s logo are driving billboards.
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On Our Radar: WiSilica
We continue our look into companies to watch in 2016 today with WiSilica, which offers an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that helps companies connect to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi protocols. Last week, we began the series with a peek at Cotap, Affectiva and Localytics and a look into
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UK Wants to Lead Worldwide IoT Efforts
The British government plans to pump more than $13 million into the creation of a new interdisciplinary Research Hub in an effort to make the UK the world leader in the development of the Internet of Things (IoT).
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The Whole Bit About Smart Networks of Things
My very first assignment as an IT consultant, back in 1980, was to design a system for automating how a clerk in a gas station convenience store would use a device called a “telephone acoustic coupler” — a cradle for the handset with a microphone in it — to upload
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Microsoft Elbows Its Way Onto Android Devices
Microsoft has forged several new partnerships with tablet makers using the Android operating system, including Samsung and Dell. Peggy Johnson, executive vice president for business development at Microsoft, said the deals extend Microsoft’s reach in the mobile world and extend its Mobile First, Cloud First strategy.
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Why Small Businesses Should Tap the IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is big and getting bigger. Fueled by some incredible buzz, the IoT is driving big data analytics and helping companies make some big money in the process. Almost every day a new startup bursts onto the scene with a new IoT product or service.
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One Happy Family: Marketing, Messaging Apps and the IoT
Marketing and creativity has typically gone hand-in-hand. But many of the marketing folks I know are also innovative — and strike me as far more Silicon Valley than Madison Avenue. There's no argument that marketing departments want to get their messages in front of as many people as possible.
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The IoT Challenge: Protecting Privacy in a Connected World
Just thinking about the Internet of Things (IoT) can make your head spin. Through sensors and pervasive connectivity, we open ourselves to a wide range of ideas that can improve our daily activities and add a much richer context to just about everything we do … if we let them.
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London Firm Bets Money on the Internet of Things
Gartner expects the Internet of Things (IoT) will be driven by small entrepreneurs rather than big tech companies. And that means funding for those entrepreneurs is going to be crucial.
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Start-Ups - Not 'Enterprise Elephants' - Lead the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) was a hot topic at last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2014 in Orlando, Fla. and the focus of new research released during the event. Pete Basiliere, research vice president at Gartner, said the organization’s latest Maverick research shows innovators, tinkerers and entrepreneurs — otherwise known as
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Casting Light on the Internet of Things
Smart bulbs were among the first products to have commercial success in the connected home. While simple in theory, they have the very practical application of allowing users to control electric lights from smartphones or tablets. Interactivity is one of their key features.
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