The Internet of Things promises to create mountains upon mountains of data, but none of it will be yours.I don't mean that you won't be generating lots of data with your Fitbit, smartphone and a myriad of other devices. No, I just mean that—as the Electronic Frontier Foundation warns—come the Internet...
Samsung Keynote at CES 2015 BK Yoon, President and CEO of Samsung Electronics, will deliver the opening keynote address at CES 2015, talking about the hot topic of the "Internet of Things". The Opening Keynote of the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be made at 6:30 p.m. on...
Your relational database is great. Really, it is. But it's not going to help you with your Internet of Things project. Really, it isn't. At least, not according to a study by Machina Research, which looks at the management of data in the coming network of billions of smart devices. It finds...
In a world increasingly shaped by software, developers are market makers. Nowhere is this more true than in the burgeoning Internet of Things market. See also: The Internet Of Things Will Need Millions Of Developers By 2020Currently riddled by a mess of competing proprietary standards, the winner in the Internet of...
Big Data challenges all of our assumptions about how data should be stored, processed and analyzed. But that doesn't mean relational databases and other incumbent technologies are slouching toward obsolescence anytime soon.That's the view of Cloudera co-founder Mike Olson, who recently sat down with Bosch's Dirk Slama to discuss the...
It's increasingly a truism that the Internet of Things is going to be a big deal. The main question is when. While analysts are projecting the need for millions of developers by 2020 to tie together all our smart and not-yet-smart gadgets, there remain significant barriers to lift-off today, as detailed in...
Demand, meet supply. The world is in dire need of millions of Internet of Things developers within the next few years. The good news? According to a new Evans Data survey, 17% the world's software developers are already working on IoT applications; those in the Asia-Pacific region are particularly active.See...
Six years ago, Swedish programmer Jonas Bonér set about trying to crack some of the most challenging problems in distributed computing. These included scalability, so that a system as large as the Internet of Things won't fail no matter how large it gets; elasticity, a way of making sure that its...
Intel's Edison, an SD-card-sized Linux computerThirty years after one of the first wars for your home, another digital standards battle is brewing among Internet of Things providers.Samsung, Intel and Dell announced Monday that they are combining forces to create a new wireless standard for the Internet of Things, connecting sensors,...
Microsoft just made its ambitions in the smart home and other connected devices evident: The Windows maker has now joined the AllSeen Alliance, a group banded together to set a common language for the Internet of Things—namely Qualcomm’s AllJoyn standard. AllSeen, which boasts members such as Haier, Sears, LG, Panasonic...
It's standard to size a market by the number of widgets sold, but in the Internet of Things, which numbers sensors and devices in the billions, widget counts don't really matter. In part this is because the real money in IoT is not in the "things," but rather in the...
The Internet of Things has been hyped for 15 years, but until now technological realities haven't supported technological possibilities. Today, given the confluence of cheap semiconductors, telecom operators with excess capacity and a new generation of open source data infrastructure, IoT is not simply possible, but probable. The question is what...
In-Vehicle-Infortainment or IVI for short is an exciting place to be right now, and it doesn't get much more exciting than the Rally fighter vehicle, which is the first Open Source Tizen Operating System based connected car, made by Local Motors, in collaboration with IBM and Intel. The company...
The word Automotive, "Internet of Things" and Tizen are coming together to form some exciting possibilities and one of them is in the Automotive field. GENIVI, a non profit organisation committed to the adoption of In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Open-Source development platform, are hosting Open Automotive '14. IVI covers such...
The Internet of Things is real and growing, but the money will come neither from Internet nor the Things. Instead, the big money will derive from business services that pull data from those IoT networks.Unfortunately, a lack of standards threatens to slow the market's maturation as vendors are forced to...
Don't say we didn't warn you. Bad guys have already hijacked up to 100,000 devices in the Internet of Things and used them to launch malware attacks, Internet security firm Proofpoint said on Thursday. It's apparently the first recorded large-scale Internet of Things hack. Proofpoint found that the compromised gadgets—which included everything from routers and...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year.The Internet of Things was all the rage in 2013, so it should be even bigger in 2014, right?If you're talking hype, then there is little doubt that the Internet of Things will continue...
The Internet of Things promises to bring a new level of convenience to our lives. Could it bring trillions of dollars worth of convenience? Not likely, but that's not stopping a lot of prognosticators out there.The level of hype around the financial promise of the Internet of Things is truly gargantuan. A May...
The Internet of Things promises that every object will eventualy be hooked up to a network. And 3D printing promises that any object we can imagine, we can build—on site and on demand. And big data promises we'll know everything there is to know about these networked objects.What happens when...
75 billion.That's the holy-@$#! number of devices that Morgan Stanley has extrapolated from a Cisco report that details how many devices will be connected to the Internet of Things by 2020. That's 9.4 devices for every one of the 8 billion people that's expected to be around in seven years.To help...
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