Broadcom extends its WICED wireless tech for the Internet of Things
Broadcom said today it is introducing its most advanced WICED wireless chip technology for the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the idea of making everyday objects “smarter”...
View ArticleA map of Israel’s growing IoT landscape
GUEST: In the 2014 movie Transcendence, Johnny Depp plays a super powerful virtual sentient being with limitless power. In one scene, scientists examine a sample of rainwater under a microscope only to...
View ArticleSamsung is adding SmartThing hubs to its 2016 HD TVs to control connected...
Your next Samsung HD television could be a hub that ties all the connected devices in your home together. The Korea-based electronics manufacturer revealed today that its 2016 smart TV lineup will...
View ArticleLG expects future growth from car electronics and Internet of Things
LG is working on a wide panoramic information display that can give you a lot of data without compromising safety by putting the data on the glass itself. The smart windshield is one of many displays,...
View ArticleHTC and Under Armour unveil 3-piece UA Healthbox monitoring system
Mobile technology maker HTC and athletic apparel manufacturer Under Armour have taken the next step in a collaboration that sees both companies straying from their traditional roles. The result this...
View ArticleThis week’s 5G buzz indicates IoT is finally kick-starting
GUEST: This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showed the world a ton of nominally “smart” new tech. And now, with spring approaching, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has folks from...
View ArticleProof phones are the future of VR, IoT, and all the other cool tech you’re...
GUEST: The annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona just wrapped up, and it has arguably become more important than even the giant Consumer Electronics Show in terms of indicating where technology is...
View ArticleBosch to build a cloud network for IoT
(Reuters) – Robert Bosch is taking on U.S. technology rivals by launching its own cloud computing network to connect up anything from cars to dishwashers via the Internet. Traditional German industrial...
View ArticleIoT startup Kamarq raises $3.2M to manufacture ‘smart’ tables that play music
Kamarq Holdings is a startup to offer the high quality and connected furniture brand Kamarq. The company recently announced on Thursday that it has secured a total of about 350 million yen (about $3.2...
View ArticleNest open-sources its home automation network protocol, Thread
Nest has released an open-sourced version of its Thread protocol, making its home automation network technology more broadly available to developers. The introduction of OpenThread is expected to give...
View ArticleHow Silicon Valley is botching IoT
GUEST: The “Internet of things” has been a Silicon Valley buzzword for the last few years, so it’s ironic that we seem to read almost as much tech news coverage about Internet of things hacking. In...
View ArticleAtari will enter IoT market with new connected devices in partnership with...
Atari announced today that it is plunging into the Internet of Things with a line of connected objects that will debut later this year. Just what those gadgets might be, however, remains shrouded in...
View ArticleY Combinator-backed Mosaic connects wearables, Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) bot maker Mosaic announced today that it has been selected for the Y Combinator summer program and has released a new beta version of its assistant on Amazon Alexa, Slack, SMS,...
View ArticleConnected car startup Automile drives home $6.2 million
Automile, an Internet of Things startup that helps companies manage their vehicle fleets, announced today that it secured a $6.2 million investment. Led by Jason Lemkin’s SaaStr Fund, followed by Dawn...
View ArticleAugust Home adds Amazon Alexa support for controlling your smart lock
As August Home expands its ecosystem of devices and services that integrate with its suite of smart home products, it has added one more: Amazon. Starting today, you can use your Amazon Echo, Tap, or...
View ArticleGE and Cisco face off over industrial IoT
GUEST: Corporate giants are in an all-out race to dominate the widely coveted Internet of Things (IoT) landscape. Today, eight companies with market capitalizations over $150 billion actively promote...
View ArticleAmazon’s Alexa Fund leads $5.6 million round for smart home startup Nucleus
Amazon’s Alexa Fund led a $5.6 million funding round for Alexa-enabled home intercom system Nucleus, the startup announced today. Enabled by Wi-Fi, Nucleus lets you use voice or video in the home to...
View ArticleBeyond Verbal wants to use virtual assistants to detect disease by analyzing...
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced a $3 billion plan to cure, prevent, or manage “all diseases in our children’s lifetime.” For the past two years, a startup called...
View ArticleVerdigris raises $6.7 million for artificial intelligence that powers green...
The smart energy startup Verdigris announced today that it has raised $6.7 million to scale production of its Einstein smart sensor and frequency detectors. The sensors are used to predict the failure...
View ArticleSoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son sees a future with 1 trillion Internet of Things...
ARM’s partners shipped more than 15 billion in 2015, generating $50 billion in chip sales. But Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, and new owner of ARM after September’s $31 billion acquisition deal, said...
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