For the past three years, South Korean tech giant Samsung has been revealing its flagship Galaxy S phones prior to the annual Mobile World Congress trade show and revealed late in February. But it seems that the Galaxy S8 set for release next year will not be unveiled later than April after battery problems with […]
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Researched in late 2016 with ongoing updates, the new IDTechEx report on the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) 2017-2027 is intended to assist investors, participants and intending participants and users. The report is mostly in the form of easily assimilated infograms, roadmaps and forecasts. The report is about nodes that sense, learn,
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The Internet of Things (IoT) market, which connects various objects to each other and the cloud, is often cited as the “next big thing” for the tech sector. The number of connected devices worldwide will soar from 15 billion in 2015 to 200 billion by 2020. However, the market is massive and investors might not know
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By saying “Alexa, tell me the news,” Alexa users in Boston can hear local news updates from CBS-owned station WBZ. WBZ says the service is available to anyone Amazon Echo device and on the latest generation of Fire HD tablets. “To add WBZ-TV to Flash Briefings, users need to update their personalized accounts via a
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Samsung Electronics this week revealed plans to unveil its flagship Galaxy S8 mobile phone with a new digital assistant powered by AI. The assistant will be based on technology gained with Samsung’s recent acquisition of Viv Labs. The plans call for Samsung to incorporate the AI into its family of electronics and appliances, ranging from
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The Thread Group wants to encourage members of the consortium to embrace its networking protocol for the internet of things by rolling out an initial hardware reference test bed and test harness and by opening up access to its test lab. By giving members these tools, Thread Group officials are hoping to drive adoption of
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Smart smoke detectors come with a higher price tag, but the safety and convenience features they offer offset it very well. The internet of things should make us safer while it makes things easier. Part of the connected home we don’t often think about, “smart” smoke detectors provide a mix of extra safety and convenience
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Microsoft is betting on artificial intelligence (AI) with the creation at the end of September of a new AI and Research Group. This newly formed group brings together Microsoft’s research organization and more than 5,000 computer scientists and engineers focused on AI and is now the fourth major division in the company, on par with
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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson may need a new media strategy. The dealmaking chief executive who bought satellite TV provider DirecTV last year was planning to add movie and TV producer Time Warner to his company next year. But with Donald Trump’s surprise win in the presidential election, that merger may be dead. Trump came out
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U.S. wireless carriers are putting a lot of energy into the Internet of Things (IoT). AT&T said over the past eight quarters it has added more connected devices than postpaid and prepaid subscribers combined and as of the close of the third quarter had 30.3 million connected devices – including 10.5 million connected cars –
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