Millions of people living in the eastern U.S. woke up on a Friday morning in October to find large parts of the internet not working. No Twitter. No Netflix. No Spotify. The issue, as we later learned, was an ominous new kind of cyber attack, where “smart” household devices were marshalled into a zombie army …
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Tweet The cyberattack that took down Netflix, Twitter, PayPal and dozens of other major websites two weeks ago was a vanguard, not a fluke. Attacks carried out by “botnets,” an army of unwitting devices that have been hacked and utilized as pawns to take down a high-value target, are one of the most common forms …
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SAN RAMON, CA — The Thread Group has announced its intention to expand Thread beyond the connected home and into the commercial building and professional sectors, to unlock valuable new use cases for its members. The group will continue its efforts to drive adoption of the Thread networking specification for the connected home, and will …
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(c) 2016, The Washington Post. Google has said that the promise of Google Home – its smart voice-activated speaker – is that I won’t have to break my stride to find a light switch, change the channel, search for music or type something into a search bar again. But the $129 Google Home, which the …
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PHOENIX — IT is changing faster than many people can comprehend, and everything from refrigerators to medical devices are being connected — the so-called Internet of Things — without full thought given to potentially tragic consequences. It is in this environment that CIOs find themselves today, and they must learn to lead organizations through it, …
In a previous blog post, The Industrial Internet of Partnerships, I wrote about the increasing number of unconventional partnerships being created to deliver Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) products and services. And by unconventional, I mean direct competitors working together. Another unusual IIoT business connection I encountered at the Industrial Internet Consortium’s IoT Solutions World …
Google didn’t change much when it ripped off Amazon’s idea of making a compact home speaker with a voice-activated assistant inside. Just like Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, released today, has microphones tuned to hear from across the room. Both devices can be asked to cue up music on Spotify and other services, set alarms and …
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In August, we heard some big news from Sonos — starting in 2017, it’ll be possible to control your home’s Sonos speakers using Amazon Alexa and the Spotify app. But, for the impatient, they also mentioned that both of those features would be available as a public beta before the end of the year. We’re …
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(Photo : Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Smart speaker’s battle of wits – is the neophyte Google Home smarter than Alexa? Google’s Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana – virtual assistants that are battling each other. As Google is releasing its Google Home, a rival of Amazon Echo speakers, users are quick to compare the …
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