Blackberry CEO: The smartphone market is saturated It’s the end of an era for BlackBerry. The company, famous for making cellphones with physical keyboards that were once so popular people nicknamed them Crackberries, has decided to stop making its own devices. BlackBerry said on Wednesday that it will rely on partners to manufacture the phones, […]
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Techstars has selected the first class for its New York-based internet of things accelerator. It’s the first program that Techstars has done with a consortium of industry partners instead of just linking up with a single, large corporate partner. For the accelerator, the first class is the culmination of a year of work putting the pieces
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CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Bosch, a leading global supplier of technology and services, hosts the second day of the Bosch ConnectedWorld Internet of Things event in Chicago. Part of an ongoing, collaborative effort to advance the Internet of Things (IoT), the conference continues with a focus on successful programs and real-world IoT projects in connected industry, also
Smartphone sales are expected to peak in North America and Europe next year, and then start to decline as the smartphone becomes just one of many connected devices. No one is more aware of this forecast than Qualcomm, the leading supplier of mobile processors and modems. The company is eager to translate its smartphone success
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SHARE THIS STORY Eugene Grygo, Chief Content Editor, FTF News While Wall Street coasts into the final quarter of this year, the foot soldiers of securities operations are likely consoling themselves with thoughts of bonuses and what to spend them on. I will do my best to help you dream about the gadgets you’d like
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New Zealand’s fibre expert, Orcon, was the first to offer Kiwis Ultra-Fast Broadband, the first to offer a Gigatown plan and is now continuing the ethos of innovation by launching Gig plans in Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton, Tauranga and Christchurch. From tomorrow, Kiwis with a need for speed can sign up to the new plans, starting
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Today, driving can be frustrating if you’re stuck in traffic—which tends to be a regular experience for many commuters. In the United States alone, 5.5 billion hours of productivity are lost from waiting in traffic each year. So what is an automated vehicle? Given that the term means different things to different people, let’s start
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Experts have warned about two separate but related security problems with the Internet of Things, which is slated to connect 20 billion consumer devices to the internet within the next four years. The explosion of web-connected devices heralded by the Internet of Things risks making us all more vulnerable online, NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett warned business leaders Tuesday. “It
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Plugging utilities and factories into Web services and third-party apps is no easy feat. Just ask Rich Carpenter, the executive behind the Industrial Internet Control System that GE claims is the first to make such connections. The portfolio of new systems represent a milestone of blending PC and industrial-control technologies in
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IU Health Leaving Health Insurance Marketplace By Alex Brown Multimedia Journalist 2016-09-26T21:52:19Z Indiana University Health Plans is dropping its individual policies from the Health Insurance Marketplace. The insurance arm of IU health says the move is the result of a restructuring of its product offerings for 2017 due to “heightened financial uncertainty” of Obamacare in
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