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The expansion of the Internet of Things may hold enormous promise, but it also poses a number of security concerns with ill-thought out regulation, according to R Street Tech Policy Fellow Anne Hobson. In communication with Digital Journal, Hobson encapsulates the risks: “Because of the nature of network effects, internet-of-things devices present a unique problem […]

Pexels/WDnet Studio The IDC predicts that the Internet of Things — the connection of physical objects, people and places through computing devices all over the world — will be worth $1.7 trillion by 2020. Gartner projects a swing up to 13.5 billion “connected things” by the same year. As demand and supply rocket upward neck-and-neck, top-speed, highly

Harriet Green, Global Head of Watson IoT (left) and Ilse Aigner, Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology. Photo by IBM. As the Internet of Things starts to gain interest from consumers, companies are starting to invest more time and resources into it. IBM just announced a new US$200 million global

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global Internet of Things devices market is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 4% during the forecast period. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170216005601/en/ This research report titled ‘Global Internet of Things (IoT) Devices

The rush to stake out central roles in the emerging Internet of Things is picking up speed, with IBM and Visa announcing a partnership for adding secure payments technology to everyday objects, including vehicles. IBM will leverage the “cognitive abilities” of its Watson IoT platform with Visa technology, providing a streamlined path for businesses to

Deutsche Post DHL Group and Chinese technology conglomerate Huawei Technologies are collaborating on a range of supply chain services for customers using “industrial-grade internet-of-things hardware and infrastructure.” The internet of things (IoT) refers to physical devices, such as vehicles, buildings and other items, that are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and network connectivity that

IBM and Visa Want To Revolutionize the Way We Buy . . . Everything While mobile payment apps, such as Apple Pay, already make it easier for people to buy things without having cash or bank cards on hand, IBM envisions even taking smartphones out of the equation by enabling purchases through the growing Internet

When Eric Schmidt was a Ph.D. student at the University of California at Berkeley, he said it didn’t even occur to him that there would be criminals that they would need to secure the internet against. Now that he’s older and wiser, he said security is key for preserving the Internet as we know it.

February 16, 2017         By: Mike Dautner Share on Facebook Share Share on TwitterTweet Share on Google Plus Share Share on LinkedIn Share Send email Mail Fermat is known to be the widely anticipated decentralized and blockchain-enabled open source project developing the Internet of People. Most recently, it announced some pretty significant upgrades to its