Industrial IoT platform Relayr acquired: Good news for those invested in the industrial IoT. Munich Re, an insurance firm, acquired Relayr for $300 million this week. Relayr helps industrial and enterprise clients connect their machines to the … [Read more...]
Amazon’s “Alexa Everywhere” strategy is brilliant, helping maintain its digital assistance leadership
Looking back at the last two Consumer Electronics Shows, you can see a tremendous focus on voice assistants. However, there was a key difference between the 2017 and 2018 shows: Amazon Alexa was all over the place in 2017 and it took until the next … [Read more...]
IoT News of the week for May 11, 2018
Was your Nest password stolen? Apparently the smart home company is notifying users that their Nest password may be vulnerable after it detected that a password breach from another site was affecting users of its site. It's encouraging … [Read more...]
Microsoft’s plan to connect Alexa and Cortana is a UI bust
Microsoft showed off the interplay between its Cortana digital assistant and Amazon's Alexa at its Build developer event Monday. This was part of a theme on Microsoft's vision for running apps everywhere on anything. As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella … [Read more...]
The smart home platform war pits logistics against context
It’s been a decade since the iPhone launched, beginning the race to win at the mobile web. Somewhere around 2012 the big internet and computing companies looked up and realized that the next wave of disruption was heading their way with the smart … [Read more...]