The British media widely reported how the recent WannaCry cyber attack largely targeted NHS trusts across the country. However, what was not as widely reported was that the attack also affected many factories across the world, shutting down production and causing concerns about data security. (more…)
July 18, 2017
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u‑blox, a global provider of wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced that it is partnering with key players of the IoT ecosystem, Huawei, Vivo, CAS Tecnologia and PinMyPet running lab and field tests inside new Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT or Cat NB1) networks in Brazil. (more…)
July 17, 2017
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Despite its name, the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector is colossal in terms of size and revenue, says Sneha Paul, product consultant at ManageEngine. (more…)
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According to a new research report from Berg Insight, the number smart homes in Europe and North America reached 30.3 million in 2016. (more…)
July 14, 2017
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Airboxlab announced that its connected indoor air quality monitor, Foobot, is now available in the UK. Foobot is the brainchild of CEO, Jacques Touillon, who wanted to help his eldest child in his fight against asthma and after looking without success for a device to fight this invisible enemy (more…)
July 13, 2017
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Regular readers will remember our exclusive article on the madcap, multinational, multilingual scheme to ride deep into the heart of China along the old Silk Road. (See: Two motorcycles, 10,000 km along Silk Road 4.0, the Internet of Things … and you?) Well, now it’s getting serious, says Jeremy Cowan. (more…)
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The world, today, is running with the power of smartphones and with mobile devices nudging towards the connected technology, the apps are becoming the main force behind the acceleration of connected technology. (more…)
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The growth of the edge computing market has been well-documented. BI Intelligence predicted that 5.6 billion Enterprise and Government IoT devices will be connected to edge devices by 2020 – up from approximately 15 billion today. (more…)
July 12, 2017
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Avanti Markets, which owns snack and drink vendor machines across the USA, has suffered a data security breach. The company has admitted that hackers might have compromised not only customers’ credit card accounts, but also the physical biometrics associated with those accounts. (more…)
July 11, 2017
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The traditional concept of a corporate security perimeter has been fading slowly for at least a decade. The cloud put it on life support and the IoT will kill it off for good. The IoT presents a whole new set of challenges and on a completely different scale. (more…)
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