Amazon takes the smart speaker sales crown in Q3: Amazon Prime Day must have really helped to move Echo devices because, in the third quarter of this year, Canalys estimated Amazon shipped 10.4 million of them. That’s up from the 6.3 million Echo … [Read more...]
Podcast: ARM’s big move and the future of food
In this week's episode, we start off with speculation about wearables and why we might put the internet of things into clothing. From there we speculate on whether IoT is the new asbestos. I did this show from ARM's annual tech conference, where I … [Read more...]
Apple breathes new life into HomeKit with a focus on privacy and security
Given the past few years of history, I wasn’t expecting to hear much about HomeKit this week from Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference. And yet Apple proved me wrong, announcing HomeKit in routers and more secure video from HomeKit-enabled webcams. … [Read more...]
Wi-Fi EasyMesh: The good, the bad and the ugly
I was initially excited earlier this week when I heard the Wi-Fi Alliance introduced EasyMesh, a mesh networking standard that promised to deliver “greater flexibility in device choice” for home networks. Now that the initial euphoria has faded, … [Read more...]
IoT News of the Week, February 17 2017
Here’s a wrap up of important news in the internet of things this week. You can get this in your inbox each week by subscribing to my newsletter. This is a good IoT project: London installed equipment to track the WiFi on people's phones as they … [Read more...]