Sarah Tew/CNET Laptop trends come and go. We’ve lived through netbooks, ultrabooks and even stereoscopic 3D laptops (yes, that was a thing for a while). Most don’t stick around for the long haul, so I originally approached Chromebooks with the same skepticism. The first couple of generations of Chromebooks were stripped-down laptops running Google’s Chrome […]
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Internet of Things Market in Central and Eastern Europe to Boom Through 2020 Spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has reached an astonishing $11 billion in 2016 as organizations accelerated their investments in the hardware, software, services, and connectivity that enable the IoT. According to a new update
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Malware instructed infected IoT devices to continually search for seafood restaurants. Image: iStock Hackers are increasingly building botnets out of unsecured Internet of Things devices and using them to direct traffic at particular targets in order to overwhelm servers with the aim of taking websites and services offline. The hijacked devices are used to target
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FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny. Imagine life without your smartphone. While some may say they can live without it, consider this: In the U.S. alone, Americans collectively look at their smartphones around 8 billion times a day, found a 2015 study by Deloitte. When accounting for all age groups, that checks out to 46 times per
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Feb 10, 2017 09:39 AM EST SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 04: Brian Rakowski, VP Product Management at Google Inc., holds a Google Pixel phone during an event to introduce the phone and other Google products on October 4, 2016 in San Francisco, California. Google is making the jump into the mobile device market in
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Feb 10, 2017 by George Anderson Amazon.com has rolled out a new service on the West Coast, which offers free in-home consultations for customers interested in smart home technology. Customers can book appointments with Smart Home Consultation advisers on Amazon’s website. The visits, during which advisors demonstrate Amazon’s popular Echo voice-activated digital assistants as well
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If you would prefer not to use your smartphone to control your smart devices, you may be interested in a new smart home control panel which has been created and unveiled by Brilliant and which is now available to preorder. The first 1000 customers to preorder the new Brilliant smart home control panel will receive
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Popular Posts: Recent Posts: Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Home connected speaker takes on Amazon.com, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Alexa on its home turf. But what about Google’s big advantage over Amazon in the smart home war — all those smartphones? Source: Google The company has just begun rolling out Home Control, a new feature that lets Google
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Aesthetically, and in some cases functionally, most wearable tech design has been a complete and utter fail until the past 12 or so months. But tech designed for the connected self, the connected body and the connected home is already changing how we interact with gadgets, apps, our own bodies and even other people in
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February 10, 2017 // By Julien Happich It can be used to control, automate and complement smart home setups. As an open platform, openHAB is not tied into one brand and supports many protocols and technologies, which lets consumers mix and match the IoT devices they want. Being one of the most popular open source
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