The Internet of Everything: Exploiting the Data Explosion I haven’t owned a TV in 20 years. I don’t watch the Super Bowl or The Bachelorette or Dancing with the Stars. I estimate that over these 20 years, choosing to have no TV in my house has given me 262,800 hours of time to spend time on […]
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The message at Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo is to prepare for a fast move to augmented reality, the decline of mobile apps, and a major shift away from web browsing to voice interaction. Many users will expect businesses, universities and governments to respond to these shifts, the market research firm said at its annual
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While Google has helped design several smartphones under the Nexus brand, it has always done so with partners such as HTC, Huawei or LG, with the manufacturer’s logo on back of the phone along side the word Nexus. But the new Pixel phone is pure Google. Just like Apple, Google doesn’t own the factories that build the
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AMP Security announced a new name, AMP Smart, deploying next-generation technology from Qolsys and Alarm.com as part of the comprehensive rebrand. The AMP Smart solution is led by a 7” touchscreen with built-in panel camera and innovative software applications, and includes a modern, intuitive, swipe-based user interface with support for security, life safety, cameras and
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Amazon‘s smart home device, Echo, has a unique and little-known privacy feature, Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO explained on Thursday. “We’ve done something a little unusual with Echo,” Bezos said. “It would be no different from your phone, but we went one step further than what’s done on a phone. When you hit
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Perhaps the most highly visible home automation hub thanks to its placement in Lowe’s stores around the country, the Iris Smart Hub ($59.99) is a reasonably priced device that controls numerous Iris-branded and third-party devices, including contact and motion sensors, thermostats, locks, and more. It contains circuitry to control Z-Wave and ZigBee smart home products,
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No hassle? “We’re starting to recognize [banks and their customers] want to make the authentication or transaction authorization as seamless as possible,” said Dan Miller, founder of Opus Research. In the not-too-distant past and in some places to this day, a customer could go to a bank branch and show a teller her ATM card,
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The digital business era has brought with it a number of new tools and technologies, such as software-defined networking (SDN), Internet of Things (IoT), mobility and the cloud. These innovations enable businesses to increase their level of dynamism and be more distributed, but they also increase the complexity of securing the business. Old-school security methods
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The broadband service provider industry will only hurt itself if everyone tries to build their own smart home platforms, making it easier for the West Coast USA tech giants to win market share in the smart home services sector. That was the warning from Jon Carter, UK Head of Business Development, Connected Home at Deutsche
Your garage door just got a lot smarter. Skylink‘s ATOMs Garage Door Opener (GDO) is the first smart-home garage door opener compatible with the industry standard If This Then That (IFTTT) platform. The ATOMs GDO comes with a passcode-protected, 3-button remote and you can control it with the SkylinkNet app on your Android or iOS phone, but
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