Google has taken an investment stake in alarm company ADT as well as signed a deal to tie ADT's installer network to the Google ecosystem of smart home products. The deal helps Google by bringing professional installers into the homes of consumers to … [Read more...]
How to stop selling a product and start selling a service
The consumer IoT is having a real "A Tale of Two Cities" moment right now. It’s the best of times, as sales of connected devices are growing and standards efforts are set to make things less complicated. But it’s also the worst of times. No one is … [Read more...]
Here’s how the IoT will help telcos move beyond data plans
You can't build the internet of things without the internet, which is why connectivity is so essential to the IoT. However, figuring out the type of network to use and how to pay for that network has been one of the thornier issues associated with … [Read more...]
Amazon’s Alexa event makes Alexa smarter, chattier and puts it in more places
Amazon is taking Alexa, its digital assistant, and making it smarter, more ubiquitous, and easier to talk to. At its Alexa Live developer event held online Wednesday, the retailer laid out 31 news announcements that broaden Alexa's capabilities and … [Read more...]
Wyze has learned what Wink didn’t
This week, smart home device maker Wyze sent an email to its 1.3 million current device owners explaining that it didn’t plan for cloud costs needed to provide free person detection for Wyze cameras. Thus, it is hoping to offset the increased costs … [Read more...]
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