The Internet of Things promises to make life easier in countless ways. But don't make it angry. You won't like it when it's angry.Rise Of The MachinesScene: New York City in mid-July, not too many years from now—the first day of a new war.The Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey with...
Wi-Fi Direct is an emerging wireless standard that allows you to create a create a connection between any two devices without going through a wireless router. Want to create a Wi-Fi hotspot, connect your computer or smartphone to your printer or stream movies from your tablet to your television? There...
ReadWriteBuilders is a new series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Today, we know what the future looks like—or we have a pretty good cheat sheet, anyway. More than half of the people in the U.S. are carrying around computers smaller than a deck of...
This morning, I had to press a switch to turn on the lights. I had to open my own blinds and turn on my own coffee maker. And I, for one, am sick of it. It’s 2013. Where’s my smart house? There are a lot of roadblocks between our low-tech homes and...
As vendors, coders and users inch toward the smart-devices-everywhere future colloquially known as the Internet of Things, they're starting to address a whole bunch of nitty-gritty issues. For starters, there's the question of just how the various devices connected to the Internet of Things will talk to each other.Beyond that,...
It's not often that you see Microsoft ahead of the curve. Its recent history is replete with stubbed toes and dropped balls — such as, for instance, missing the early significance of the Internet. Or mobile. Or tablets.But the company's news that it is opening up its Bing search engine...
The Internet of Things - in which ordinary objects get smart and connected, making possible all sorts of new services - promises to give us smarter cities, fewer traffic jams, a cleaner environment and a Series victory for the Cubs. (OK, maybe not that last one.)Trouble is, while lots of technologists and...
The Internet of Things isn't really an Internet of anything, at least not yet. Sure, devices are connected to the Internet, but they don't communicate with other devices — just with their own home servers. But that may be about to change.A new common cloud platform dubbed Xively Cloud Services aims to...
A new survey of IT decision makers by SAP and Harris Interactive reithat the rise of machine to machine (M2M) communications - more commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" - is on the cusp of transforming our homes, our cities and how business is conducted.How, you ask?By leveraging Big...
As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there's another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search - very soon, we're going to be swimming in more data than we will know what to do with.The rise of the Internet...
Cisco is one of those companies people have a hard time figuring out. Despite the confusion, though,he company has posted a 44% increase in income from last year in its fiscal second quarter earnings released on Wednesday. And its long-term future looks even better.Clearly, some people have gotten Cisco figured...
In the not-so-distant future, everything in our lives is going to be connected to the Internet of Things. Fire hydrants, medical equipment, toasters. Really, everything. Yesterday a “smart” fork was introduced to bring “metrics to your mouthfuls.” If you can slap a sensor to a device and add wireless connectivity,...
Everyone knows the smartphone is killing the point-and-shoot digital camera. Who wants to carry a digital camera as a separate device when your smartphone already takes good-enough pictures and makes them easy to share with your friends? Sure, a good point-and-shoot takes better pictures than a smartphone does. On the other...
Through the Internet, humans have connected the world. People are closer to each other than ever while still remaining apart. The next phase of the the Internet will be about connecting things. The Internet of Things will be central to the infrastructure that we build. (The "Futurist's Cheatsheet" series surveys technologies...
Buried in the details of last week’s update to Facebook’s now-native iOS app was a small bit of technology that could have potentially big impact on the future of the Internet of Things.The technology is called Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), an IBM-developed protocol for real-time messaging over networks with...
An unlikely place to look for the latest trend for the Internet of Things is inside the sewers of the City of South Bend, Indiana. For the past six years, South Bend's city managers have been working with a group of consultants from IBM, nearby Notre Dame University and others...
With today’s celebration of World IPv6 Launch 2012, the Internet is doing something new: growing. And that growth comes none too soon as the rise of the Internet of Things places unprecedented new demands on worldwide Internet infrastructure.Google, Yahoo and Facebook are among the leaders in the growing charge to...
Early Internet of Things innovator gets a makeover and a new name: Cosm. It's attempting to become more social, but unfortunately it's likely to turn normal people off - rather than turn them on.When we first started profiling the emerging trend of Internet of Things back in 2009, one startup...
Fifty billion Internet-capable devices - if that indeed is the number - capable of communicating sensor data through the networks we use today, probably won't have Ethernet plugs. And if they're mobile by nature, they won't rely on Wi-Fi routers. If soon there are more devices communicating over the Internet...
If 50 billion, or however many billion, devices share the same Internet as some 8 billion humans by the year 2020, will the weakest links in data security be on machines that have any degree of human control? Put another way, could a not-so-smart client on a machine-to-machine (M2M) network...
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