dweet.io: A simple, effective messaging service for the Internet of Things

In my last post I discussed Freeboard, a powerful, polished, open source Web dashboard and mentioned that Bug Labs, the creators of Freeboard, also offer a very interesting Internet of Things messaging service called dweet which we’ll look at today. Now, there are many messaging services (for example MQTT) that can be used by IoT […]

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It probably wasn't Russia who attacked the Internet today. That's what's scary.

Twitter was unavailable for much of Friday after a massive attack on the underpinnings of the Internet. (Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) As users of Twitter and many other services probably know, large parts of the Internet weren’t working Friday, thanks to a hacking attack on the Internet’s infrastructure. NBC reported that a senior intelligence

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'Virtually immortalized' Joey from 'Friends' wants to chat you up

Enlarge Image An audio-visual example of generated scenes with Joey saying new sentences. Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET How YOU doin’? If you’re a fan of the show “Friends,” you might be doin’ better after hearing this news. Researchers have “virtually immortalized” Joey Tribbiani from the long-running sitcom with a talking avatar that says the

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Who Uses Voice Recognition Technologies and Are They Satisfied?

IoT research firm Parks Associates released findings in which it says 46 percent of U.S. Millennials with smartphones use voice recognition software, including Apple’s Siri, Google Now or Microsoft’s Cortana. That aligns in an interesting way with research also put out recently by TiVo that showed 43 percent Millennials surveyed were using voice commands with some

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The eerie future of AdWords targeting

“OK Google, tell me how creepy things are going to get.” How would your 2006 selves respond to our advertising toolbox of today? Much of what we internet users and advertisers deem as normal would have been considered creepy or just plain impossible 10 years ago. With demographic targeting for search, cross-device attribution and much more rolling

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Rating Worth Mentioning Today: Time To Sell Technicolor (OTCMKTS:TCLRY), JPMorgan …

Technicolor (OTCMKTS:TCLRY) Downgrade In a a note sent to investors on Friday, 21 October, JPMorgan stated it was downgrading Technicolor (OTCMKTS:TCLRY) stock rating from a “Overweight” to a “Neutral”. It is down 6.83% since March 18, 2016 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 2.36% the S&P500. Technicolor SA is engaged in the development of

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