This week I was at Google’s cloud event in San Francisco while Kevin swapped out his video doorbells. We discuss Google’s news related to edge computing and several pieces of doorbell news before talking about a few recent articles that show how far … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for May 18, 2018
Google plays hardball with hardware partners: This story actually focuses on Sonos playing hardball with Google over patents, with Sonos making an implicit threat to sue Google over patent infringement, but it also notes that Google has tried to … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 27, 2018
Google loses $621 million on Nest in 2017: Alphabet announced its quarterly results this week, and due to Nest moving from Alphabet back into Google this past February, the company restated its Nest financials for 2017. They were not good. Revenues … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 6, 2018
3M will build its digital transformation on C3's software: Tom Siebel's C3 platform-as-a-service just won a big customer with 3M. The maker of Post-It notes, Command strips, and a variety of medical supplies will send all of its manufacturing data to … [Read more...]
FogHorn is taking industrial IoT processing to the edge
Edge computing is all the rage now. The idea that the petabytes of data generated by industrial processes or even things like autonomous cars will travel to the cloud and back has always been in doubt. Issues associated with latency, bandwidth costs … [Read more...]