Gary Lineker has teamed up with several insurance veterans to support a start-up that monitors customers’ homes to try and avoid costly claims. Neos, which has raised more than £1m in its latest funding round, installs internet-connected gadgets in homes to keep track of possible break-ins, water leaks and fires. The firm charges a monthly fee […]
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The launch of Google Home next month will lend Google a physical presence in the connected home Whenever technology giants like Amazon and Google enter a market, other brands tend to sit up and pay attention. In recent weeks both companies have taken big steps into the connected home, with Amazon launching its Echo home
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There is a huge opportunity for connected home insurance with three-quarters of consumers being interested in monitoring their home via a mobile app, according to a survey by Consumer Intelligence. Research revealed during Post’s Digital Insurance World revealed that, out of 1,751 people surveyed, 80% were either potentially or very interested in a service to
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October 17, 2016 Stacey Higginbotham Microsoft’s embrace of programmable chips knowns as FPGAs is well documented. But in a paper released Monday the software and cloud company provided a look into how it has fundamentally changed the economics of delivering hardware as a service thanks to these once-specialty pieces of silicon. Field programmable gate arrays,
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HONG KONG, Oct. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has secured design wins among the industry’s leading module original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) based on its MDM9206 LTE modem for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. These designs are an addition to the more than 100 designs
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By 2020, analyst firm IDC has predicted that there will be 212 billion devices connected to the internet, known as the Internet of Things (IoT). Networking giant Cisco has estimated this number is more likely to sit at around 12.2 billion, while Gartner believes 6.4 billion devices is a fairer approximation. Whatever the number, Dell
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Apple is looking to Japan to help improve Siri. On Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Japan could play a vital role in his company’s artificial intelligence initiatives. Cook is in the country on a work trip, as Apple prepares to open up a R&D center this December in Yokohama, near Tokyo. According to
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Image source: Getty Images. It looks as though Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) chairman and CEO Eddie Lampert is going to have to go with Plan B for the Craftsman brand, after Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) said it was buying the tool business of rival Newell Brands (NYSE: NWL). While Lampert has been stripping
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is often talked about as some distant future vision. Consumers dream about connected lives; journalists posture about how IoT will change the web; entrepreneurs calculate automation’s business value. Related: The Big Change That Could Be Coming to Snapchat So it may surprise you to learn that 451 Research found in
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(Image courtesy of Samsung, Flickr). When the Open Connectivity Foundation said in February that it was adding new members to write standard software for household gadgets, Qualcomm’s name stood out. For years, the wireless chipmaker had cultivated an almost identical project, and now it was throwing support behind a rival standard. But that only lasted
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