Daily News Federal Communications Commission Chairman Thomas Wheeler has laid out a new strategy to address cybersecurity threats to the Internet of Things, calling upon an interagency cybersecurity forum to coordinate regulatory approaches around IoT cyber risk. In a letter to Congress dated Dec. 2, Wheeler outlines a multifaceted strategy leveraging voluntary stakeholder engagement, interagency […]
We have been impressed, though left wanting for more, by Nest’s attempt at bringing its security camera to the great outdoors. Nest, however, is hardly the only game in town. Blink, which also has an indoor home security camera and cloud storage, is almost stepping out of its shell. Introducing the Blink XT, whose only
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:52 AM UTC Sensify Security, a Palo Alto-based company that applies blockchain technology in cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently joined The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The company enables operators to control access
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MA student Alex Gamela took this image of the Telegraph newsroom during the first year of the MA My MA in Online Journalism has a new name: the MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism. It’s still a course all about finding, publishing and distributing journalism online. So why the name change? Well, because what ‘online‘
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Software AG, a German software giant with 4,300 employees, has acquired San Diego-based Zementis, a specialist in machine learning and data science. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to a statement Friday, after the acquisition closed last week. Zementis CEO Michael Zeller co-founded the company in 2004 to help customers glean new insights from
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Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HRC) leaders announced Nov. 22 a subsidiary’s entrance into the connected home monitoring market with its new Welch Allyn Home™ Hypertension Program. According to the American Heart Association, one out of three adults in the U.S. has high blood pressure and approximately 46 percent of those don’t have their condition under control,
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Comments Print Jeff Swensen/New York Times An Uber self-driving Ford Fusion rolled through the streets of Pittsburgh in September. By Mike Isaac New York Times December 06, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of
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The Amazon Echo, a $200 device that sits on your kitchen counter and silently judges everything you say, has been a surprise hit with consumers. Google has rushed its own version to market, Apple is said to be working on something similar, and now it looks like Microsoft is going to half-heartedly join the fray.
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A new open-source connector enables businesses to build IoT applications that gather and make sense of mountain of data from disparate sources. Building an Azure-backed internet of things (IoT) application that uses the popular open-source Apache Kafka stream ingestion technology just got easier.Like RabbitMQ, Kafka is considered an IoT application building block for enterprises. It
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NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Executive summaryThe number of remotely monitored patients grew by 51 percent to 4.9 million in 2015 as the market entered a growth phase fuelled by rising market acceptance in several key verticals. This number includes all patients enrolled in mHealth care programs in which connected medical devices are
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