Happy New Year, y'all! This week Kevin and I kick off the show with a chat about the Wyze security breach. We talk about what it means for you and I offer an idea on how to stop some of these breaches. We also mention the lawsuit against Ring, … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Nov. 29, 2019
Cellular IoT will reach 5 billion connections by 2025: — Ericsson has put out its November 2019 Mobility report with fun data on 5G, smartphone data consumption, and the IoT. For the IoT, the big news is that we're about to hit an inflection point in … [Read more...]
Podcast: SmartThings’ new gear and a Wink sighting
This week on the IoT Podcast, Kevin and I spend time discussing Amazon’s new smaller Echo Show and SmartThings’ new trifecta of products. From there we talk about a frightening new malware that’s bricking IoT devices and its unlikely origin. We … [Read more...]
Podcast: What Google killing Works with Nest means
This week's show is a long one, thanks to both Google I/O and Microsoft Build happening this week. We kick off with news from I/O about local processing and gesture controls before digging deep into what it means that Google is killing its Works with … [Read more...]
Ericsson tries to make sense of the IoT’s needs
Amid all of the hype around 5G networks, we're losing sight of some very important realities, namely that pointing a 5G network at many IoT use cases is like using a fire hose to fill a pipette. So while there are some use cases that need a fire … [Read more...]