My mother turned sharply, red-faced, yelling at me to “stop being a noodge!” Shopping with my mother as a young boy I can remember begging her to buy the cereal box that contained the prize that I was sure would change my life, to give me the plastic toy hanging from the store shelf like […]
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Despite being around for over a century, Legos remain one of the most popular toys of children across the globe even though they haven’t changed over the years. Brixo is like an internet of things (IoT) enabled Lego set. They’re bricks that safely conduct electricity and connect to the user’s smartphone to enable them to do
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In a recent appointment announcement, Savi Technology has named J. Richard Carlson as Chief Executive Officer, following an extensive executive search by Momenta Partners, a global advisory, executive search and ventures firm for the Connected Industry. Carlson will assume his new role as CEO in April. Sean McGuinness, who had been interim CEO, will continue
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The promise of building a smart home lies in how easy the devices are to connect: you can link your smart thermostat to a smart lighting set-up—all in the flip of a switch. As we talk about often on GearBrain, building a smart home can be simple, as long as you understand the details along
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Though there has always been an element of service as a product, it has been accelerating in recent years and could become the dominant method of delivery for sophisticated goods over the next several years. The question being asked by manufacturers is: Do consumers want a product or do they want the service that the
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It looks like Ericsson is trying to stay ahead of the Internet of Things curve. The company last week agreed to partner with China Mobile and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to connect healthcare equipment using NB-IoT technology. According to a joint press release, China Mobile’s Jiangsu branch and Ericsson will work together to trial new applications
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“Detroit, we have a problem. The rampant growth the global economy has been experiencing is fading away,” warned Alastair Orchard, vice president, Digital Enterprise, Siemens. “The global economy is growing at the same rate it was in the Dark Ages, the 1300s. For the first time in centuries, we have to tell our children they may
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Securing elections from hackers. The spread of connected devices. Nation-state attacks. The lack of cybersecurity talent. These were some of the pressing cybersecurity challenges that keep Passcode’s group of security and privacy experts up at night. Passcode’s Influencers Poll regularly surveys 160 high-profile experts from across government, industry, and the advocacy community. For one last poll
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This was supposed to be the year when NB-IoT exploded into the market and left its network rivals reeling from the impact: “NB-IoT will crush Sigfox and LoRa because it means there will be no need for them,” said Matt Beal, Vodafone’s director of innovation and architecture, during a press briefing in April last year.
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