Some of you may be reading our series on the Internet of Things and wondering: what use is this to me in my daily work? So one day my fridge will be able to tell me when the milk has run out, when I travel my luggage will have an...
Recently Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper entitled Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. It focuses squarely, pardon the pun, on the intersection of social web technologies with the emerging Internet of Things (real world objects connected to the Internet). The 'web squared' moniker is, commercially...
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze why Amazon spent nearly a billion dollars to purchase online shoe shop Zappos, explain why IBM is an early leader in the Internet of Things, investigate whether the Google Chrome...
MQTT is an IBM-developed protocol for real-time messaging that could become a keystone of the emerging Internet of Things. As the BBC explained recently, MQTT (which stands for Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is "a platform-agnostic system which can connect almost any networked object to the wider world." MQTT is used...
In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any large Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. It was a good couple of years before they were spotted at the Web 2.0 conference, for...
I recently spoke to Andy Stanford-Clark, a Master Inventor and Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He's been working on a number of Twitter and real-time monitoring projects, many of them at the intersection of two big trends we've been tracking in 2009: The Real-time Web and Internet of Things. Stanford-Clark has...
The "internet of things" is a concept that describes a wireless network between objects. In a way, it parallels the current network of addressable web pages (aka the "world wide web"), except "the internet of things" would include addressable inanimate objects that could be anything from your home's refrigerator to...
The number of connected medical devices – the ones communicating with other systems via the Internet – is growing steadily. These smart things gather and transmit a mountain of healthcare data. Even such small gadgets as fitness trackers and smartwatches can provide quite a bit of health-related metrics, including heart...
The medical sphere is undergoing rapid transformation with the introduction of connected technological solutions. Known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), this system of interoperable devices is improving data-informed actions. It's also alleviating time-consuming tasks for professionals and offering greater autonomy and customization for patients. Here is how the...
As the Internet of things (IoT) becomes increasingly popular Samsung is increasing its role in the evolution of the concept. The tech giant has a lot to gain in an expanded IoT market as a result of its wide range of electronic gadgets. IoT is a concept that not only has...
It's been a bad period for Canada's Standard Innovation Corp., with the news that their popular connected "pleasure device" (aka a vibrator...now everyone settle down), We Vibe 4 Plus, is easily hackable being followed by a corresponding lawsuit. The smart vibrator released two years ago is marketed towards couples spending...
The latest Internet of Things (IoT) sub-segment to emerge is the Internet of Robotic Things, where intelligent robots operate with relative autonomy. As reported by ZDNet, ABI Research is championing the emergence of IoT-powered robots. In essence the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) describes devices that are able to combine...
No place on land or sea is safe from being connected. And now it seems the marine industry is at last diving into Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with both feet. RCR Wireless News reports shipping companies are increasingly harnessing the data produced by their vessels. However, technology giant Ericsson says the...
Before Vibease, the world’s first smart vibrator had been on crowd-funding site Indiegogo for 24 hours, it had already earned double its $15,000 funding goal. But to spokesperson Hermione Way, it’s no surprise. As a woman in a long distance relationship (she’s in San Francisco, he’s in London), she can’t wait...
The Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, is a trend that we've been actively tracking since early 2009. So far a lot of big technology infrastructure and solutions companies have gotten behind the trend, for the simple reason that they see a huge market...
The number of devices connected to the Internet is expected to hit five billion this month, says IMS Research, and will reach 22 billion by 2020.About one billion computers, laptops and modems were included in the first wave of Internet-connected devices, according to the company, which tracks installed Internet-capable equipment....
Security company Marshal reports that their latest survey found 29% of respondents willing to admit that they have purchased something from a spam e-mail. While that number seems pretty questionable, PCMag's Appscout points to a related survey from Forrester in 2004 that found 20% of people say they have bought...
You should believe nobody, or at least that’s what the people who want you to believe that tell you to believe. For the last few years anti-piracy DRM Denuvo has been blamed incessantly for ruining the game performance of legitimate purchases, while pirates got away scott-free with playing the game...
We have made a lot of cool things in Infinite Craft so far, but probably none cooler than making Infinite Craft itself. Weirdly, to make it and its own subreddit, we didn’t need the Internet. We all need the internet though, so this page will take you through the steps...
The world before the advent of the Internet was really a different age. The progression of the history of mankind can be divided into two epochs. The one before the inception of the internet and the other one after it. Whether it's floating through the world of social media or...
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