Although I saw the expected 8K TVs, concept cars and new computers last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, I also saw a growing number of smart products aimed at improving the quality of life for older Americans. Sure, there have been connected … [Read more...]
Rebranding won’t save the smart home, trust will
We need to dump the phrase "smart home" and adopt something new. That was a big takeaway from my panel focused on the smart home in 2020 held this week at CES. Fellow panalist Felicite Moorman, CEO of Stratis IoT, suggested we should return to using … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Jan. 10, 2020
Security firm Armis acquired by a PE firm: Insight Partners, a private equity firm, has spent $1.1 billion to buy IoT security firm Armis. I covered Armis roughly a year ago, and it's one of several IoT security firms I think will be rolled up into … [Read more...]
I went to CES and had 4 epiphanies!
If you were at CES and not overwhelmed by the array of products in front of you, I'm impressed. Every year I come back feeling like I saw only saw a tenth of the things that were there and that I may have been impressed by all of the wrong ones. … [Read more...]
Podcast: Everything that mattered at CES
This week Kevin and I went to Las Vegas for the annual CES event showcasing thousands of technology products under dozens of roofs. We recorded the show before we had the chance to see everything, but we did pull together this show with some of the … [Read more...]