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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Home security cameras can turn out to be anything but secure, if they’re controllable over the internet. An unsettling story making the rounds a year ago told of a California couple who outfitted their kid’s room with a wireless Foscam baby monitor with a webcam that could be remotely operated by their phones. The monitor
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Shutterstock photo Travel giant Expedia, Inc.EXPE yesterday rolled out a new travel updates skill for Amazon’s AMZN Alexa service. The skill is compatible with all Alexa-enabled devices, Echo, Echo Dot and Fire TV. The Skill in Detail With the Expedia skill enabled, Alexa’s voice-activated system can give users real time travel updates and information. It
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This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt London Hackathon is set to be the best yet. We’re mere days away from the main event and are bursting with excitement. As we’ve been releasing information about the event this week, we wanted to whet our hacker’s appetites with details about spectator tickets, our sponsors, and their awesome prizes. Hackathon tickets The
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Dreaming of a truly connected home? There are a lot of options nowadays, with even Google joining in on the fun, and Apple is reportedly going to build a similar device. But for now, let’s focus on Amazon’s Home connectivity lineup — the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot. Both are built by Amazon
CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MaxLinear, Inc. (NYSE: MXL), a leading provider of radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal integrated circuits for broadband communications, the connected home, data center, metro, long-haul fiber networks, and wireless infrastructure, today announced that Hitron Technologies Inc. (TAIEX: 2419), a leading global telecommunications networking company, has successfully achieved Cable Labs® certification of its CODA-45
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