Over the past year, the swell of chatbots and virtual assistants has grown larger, and their capabilities have grown more complex. Want a bot toschedule your meetings? Collect employee status updates? Remind you to bring an umbrella if it’s going to rain? Done, done, and done. But while completing practical tasks is the goal of […]
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The ad, created by CHI & Partners, shows a long-distance father connecting with his family using Hive’s smartphone app. He uses the app to switch on the family’s Christmas lights while away on tour in Norway. The tagline concludes: “You’re never far away from home with Hive”. The campaign’s emotional undertone marks a shift for
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Connected devices in the home will be exposed to malware, says Trevor Coetzee, regional director for SA and Sub-Saharan Africa at Intel Security. As the use of unmanned aerial vehicles become mainstream, so does the potential threat of drone-jackings for a variety of criminal or hacktivist purposes. This was revealed at an Intel Security media
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ManagementIntel has hired Tom Lantzsch, the executive vice president of strategy at ARM Holdings, to serve as senior vice president and general manager of its IoT Group, effective in January. Lantzsch succeeds Douglas Davis, a senior vice president who was running the IoT Group and had announced plans to retire from Intel after more than
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This past April, I went out on a limb to explore which “Internet of Things” company was the better buy from an investment standpoint:Cisco Systems(NASDAQ: CSCO)orSierra Wireless(NASDAQ: SWIR)? Continue Reading Below At the time — and with the caveat that it was certainly the higher-risk option — I chose Sierra Wireless as a smaller, nimbler
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There may be trouble in wearables land. Based on a number of recent reports, the appetite for smart or connected things that are worn may be softening a bit, at least at the moment. The latest is the widely reported rumor of a $40 million sale of smartwatch startup Pebble to Fitbit. For context, Pebble,
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Fitness tracker giant Fitbit has reportedly made a bid to absorb smart watch pioneer Pebble in a deal valued at $34-40 million. On its surface this would mean that two independent wearable tech companies are ostensibly teaming up to fare better against their larger rivals in the wearables and fitness tracking space. But that’s not
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Image source: Getty Images. The Internet of Things (IoT) gets quite a lot of buzz these days, which is probably due to the fact that the market is expected to reach up to $7.1 trillion by 2020 and to connect 50 billion devices to the internet. The IoT is already transforming agriculture, health, and the
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01 Dec 2016 Leading U.K. real estate classified company Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) reported strong results for FY2016 to end-September today, and said it was confident about the current financial year, despite the headwinds hitting the property market. ZPG revenue soared 84 percent to £198 million in FY2016 from £108 million in FY2015. Profit climbed
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