The company has unveiled two new smart home products at its Samsung Unpacked 2017 event on Wednesday that are promised to simplify our everyday lives. Along with the official introduction of Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus smartphones, Samsung has presented a new smart home service that will allow users easily manage their smart home IoT …
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| Share | Share | Share | Share As consumer adoption rates for devices that comprise the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow, clear legal and regulatory guidance addressing IoT technology’s privacy and security requirements has failed to keep pace. To take one example, IoT devices that collect data from the solitude of people’s …
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Canadian software developer and former smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. is set to report results for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 before markets open on Friday. After several quarters of controlling costs, the company is expected to effectively break even, while demonstrating improvements in some of its nascent software releases. Meanwhile, investors are likely to …
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As more medical devices become connected, the health care market is turning to channel partners for security services and the vertical market knowledge they need to get the most out of Internet of Things applications. “Solution providers in the health care area have an opportunity in … in securing [connected devices] and following the physical, …
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Convenience be damned: Is smart lock voice control really secure? August’s Smart Lock works with HomeKit, Alexa and Google Home, but is voice control making home security devices more vulnerable? by Megan Wollerton 2:23 Close Drag Autoplay: ON Autoplay: OFF After the Google Home smart speaker got some additional smart home device partners earlier this …
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At Intel‘s (NASDAQ:INTC) Technology and Manufacturing Day, hosted on March 28, the company disclosed a whole bunch of information about current and future manufacturing technologies. One of the more interesting disclosures the chipmaker made was the announcement of a new, low-cost technology that it calls 22FFL. The technology, Intel says, is “the world’s first FinFET …
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Reading a heat signature seemed like the stuff of $10,000 devices: not consumer-priced, not small, and not really relevant to an everyday homeowners life. But in the last few years, thermal gadgets have grown almost as common as pen knives. You can buy them on Amazon, and even at the Apple store. While once relegated …
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Big news from the world of smart-home devices this week. August, makers of smart locks, doorbell cams and accessories, announced this week the addition of support for the Google Assistant to the 1st and 2nd generation August Smart Locks. Currently, the integration with Google Assistant and the Google Home smart speaker will allow users to …
Scott Ford, a former Sprint Corp. executive who founded a startup company, PEQ, to develop an Internet of Things operating system, has obtained a new $8.5 million investment round. The Kansas City-based enterprise, now rebranded Pepper, is developing an operating system for laptops and smart phones that can help users organize and connect IoT devices …
Nexeon MedSystems has licensed a portfolio of patents from Marathon Patent Group. The portfolio of 86 patents originated from Siemens AG, one of the world’s preeminent engineering companies. This portfolio protects innovations in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) space, which can be described as the interconnection via the internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data. This …
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