The Federal Trade Commission is looking into Amazon's decision to purchase the maker of Roomba vacuum cleaners for $1.7 billion. The agency this week asked Amazon and iRobot for more information about the deal, so Kevin and I took a moment to explain … [Read more...]
Podcast: Smart screws and massive IoT
This week's show was recorded a few hours before the annual Google I/O event so we didn't discuss the new Pixel Watch, but we do discuss Google's thoughts on the Matter smart home standard from an article in The Verge, which Kevin also tied to a … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for March 18, 2022
Georgia-Pacific chooses MachineQ's LoRaWAN network to connect public bathrooms: Georgia-Pacific, which makes paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers and other hygiene products, has signed a deal with Comcast's MachineQ network to connect its KOLO … [Read more...]
Podcast: The IoT is a privacy nightmare and more 5G
Imagine all of the potential problems associated with the internet of things, and then settle in, because I think we talk about all of them in this episode. We start by detailing research out of Northeastern University that shows old data isn't … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for March 13, 2020
Microsoft discovers utilities are big on IoT: Once again, Microsoft has interviewed executives in a specific industry to understand how that industry views IoT. This time, the software giant interviewed 100 executives in the utility sector … [Read more...]