On Monday, the keynote kicked off Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference with a focus on software and services. Nope, there was no new hardware, so no new support for Z-Wave or Zigbee radios like I had hoped for HomeKit. Apple’s Home app is coming to … [Read more...]
Podcast: The Nest doorbell is a great video doorbell
Microsoft plans to spend $5 billion on the internet of things, and it’s more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements. We discuss its plans on this week’s podcast. We also talk about Qualcomm’s new vision chips … [Read more...]
Alexa, play me an ad that I don’t want to hear (said no one ever)
Here’s a good news, (potentially) bad news story. First the good news: Even though it typically doesn’t provide sales numbers for its product lines, Amazon touted record purchases of Alexa-enabled products this holiday season. Given how … [Read more...]
How the Internet of Things Will Change War
This week on The Internet of Things Podcast, Stacey Higginbotham talks with Tarek Abdelzaher, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He’s part of a team that won a research grant from the U.S. Army Research … [Read more...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, October 27 2017
Here's a news brief of what happened in IoT this week. Get this in your inbox every Friday morning when you subscribe to the newsletter. Here’s why Ring Protect is safe and easy to install: Remember earlier this month when Ring announced a $199 … [Read more...]