Last week I went to San Diego to visit Qualcomm and to attend CEDIA, a trade show for professional AV and home automation installers. The narrative flowing through both events was that the internet of things as it relates to the smart home is a … [Read more...]
IoT News of the Week, September 15, 2017
Forget pacemakers, now the latest insecure medical device is an infusion pump: Earlier this month we learned that some pacemakers were hacked, requiring updates and doctor's visits for 465,000 patients. This week brings us news that three infusion … [Read more...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, September 8 2017
Want to get this news summary in your inbox every Friday? Subscribe to the IoT newsletter. Hackers made a dog whistle for Alexa, Google and Siri: Looks like it wouldn't be too difficult to get the Amazon Echo or Siri to obey a stranger's command. … [Read more...]
Internet of Things news of the week August 11, 2017
Did Big Ass Fans make a big ass mistake? Stop reading this and go read this story from the founder of Big Ass Fans (they make giant fans and smaller fans) on his connected device journey so far. He concludes that his company made a connected product … [Read more...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, July 21, 2017
Particle gets $20 million: IoT development platform Particle, which used to be known as Spark, has received $20 million in venture capital to expand its platform. Particle is a public IoT success story from an era when everyone had a hardware-based … [Read more...]