Photo: James Nielsen, Staff Image 1of/1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Yawen Yu left, has her photograph taken during the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference at the George R. Brown Convention Center Oct. 19, 2016, in Houston. ( James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle ) less Yawen Yu left, has her photograph […]
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The IDC projects the Internet of Things (IoT) market to grow rapidly to a whopping $1.7 trillion by 2020, causing many to deem it the tech sector’s next Industrial Revolution. IoT technology facilitates the exchange of information between businesses, homes, the cloud and billions of connected devices around the world, set to revolutionize the way
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By: Jim Schakenbach The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to make news this month as Verizon and Qualcomm double down on IoT by announcing a joint initiative to simplify IoT application development and transform customer experience through Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT platform-as-a-service and Qualcomm’s LTE modem technology. Through this collaboration, the companies
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The Internet of Everything: Exploiting the Data Explosion I haven’t owned a TV in 20 years. I don’t watch the Super Bowl or The Bachelorette or Dancing with the Stars. I estimate that over these 20 years, choosing to have no TV in my house has given me 262,800 hours of time to spend time on
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The message at Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo is to prepare for a fast move to augmented reality, the decline of mobile apps, and a major shift away from web browsing to voice interaction. Many users will expect businesses, universities and governments to respond to these shifts, the market research firm said at its annual
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While Google has helped design several smartphones under the Nexus brand, it has always done so with partners such as HTC, Huawei or LG, with the manufacturer’s logo on back of the phone along side the word Nexus. But the new Pixel phone is pure Google. Just like Apple, Google doesn’t own the factories that build the
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AMP Security announced a new name, AMP Smart, deploying next-generation technology from Qolsys and Alarm.com as part of the comprehensive rebrand. The AMP Smart solution is led by a 7” touchscreen with built-in panel camera and innovative software applications, and includes a modern, intuitive, swipe-based user interface with support for security, life safety, cameras and
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Amazon‘s smart home device, Echo, has a unique and little-known privacy feature, Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO explained on Thursday. “We’ve done something a little unusual with Echo,” Bezos said. “It would be no different from your phone, but we went one step further than what’s done on a phone. When you hit
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Perhaps the most highly visible home automation hub thanks to its placement in Lowe’s stores around the country, the Iris Smart Hub ($59.99) is a reasonably priced device that controls numerous Iris-branded and third-party devices, including contact and motion sensors, thermostats, locks, and more. It contains circuitry to control Z-Wave and ZigBee smart home products,
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No hassle? “We’re starting to recognize [banks and their customers] want to make the authentication or transaction authorization as seamless as possible,” said Dan Miller, founder of Opus Research. In the not-too-distant past and in some places to this day, a customer could go to a bank branch and show a teller her ATM card,
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