The wrong kind of connected car, texting and driving Often, especially outside the United States, mobile telecom operators trade at depressed earnings multiples. They do so even though the markets they act in are de facto oligopolies (due to spectrum licensing), and mobile operators tend to be cash cows. There are many possible reasons why […]

It’s one thing to connect a gazillion devices across a plant, but it’s quite something else to analyze the data for direct action and optimization that delivers measurable value. The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) – created in 2014 with 268 corporate and government members – has spent the past two years creating test beds of

Houston’s PAS, a security firm focused on industrial control systems, has raised $40 million as the company looks to expand its channel program for operational technology (OT) security. PAS, which provides security for industrial control systems – including distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, turbo machinery controls, and compressor control systems – wants to broaden

My first car had an in-dash 8-track tape player, and in later years I hung on to my walkman and Blackberry for dear life. So I’m trying to not fall too far behind on the Internet of Things – or “IoT” as this next stage in our technological evolution has apparently been dubbed. Everything’s connected