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Harish, 11, a school boy uses a laptop provided under the “One Laptop Per Child’ project by a non-governmental organisation as a calf stands next to him in India in 2010. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters). Michael Chertoff is the former secretary of homeland security and current chairman of the Chertoff Group.  History has inflection points; points where …

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The market rewards those technology companies that never stand still. A compelling case in point is Qualcomm (QCOM) , the giant semiconductor company that manufactures chips for smartphones and other devices. Qualcomm is making a big bet on the Internet of Things (IoT), a strategic pivot that’s already showing up on the bottom line. You …

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On August 9th, a full day after the Delta system outage that stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers, senior vice president David Holts acknowledged that the airline is “still operating in recovery mode.” As we move to the Internet of Things and an increasingly networked economy, Delta’s situation is a reminder of the importance of …

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Hackers have revealed that an internet-connected sex toy is sending intimate information back to its manufacturer for the purpose of “market research.” The We-Vibe 4 Plus is designed to be controlled remotely through a smartphone app, so that couples can use it when they are not together. It was revealed that data from the device, …

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Machine-to-machine is just the tip of the Internet of Things iceberg. Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is a term used for automated data transmission and measurement between mechanical or electronic devices. Although many people assume that the two terms (M2M and IoT) are synonyms, the former is just a starting point for the latter. As CRN reported last …

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