With the number of connected devices growing at an astronomical rate – Gartner predicts that in 2016, 5.5 million new things will get connected every day, we are clearly living in the IoT era. Our smartphones have become the window that opens up a world where people, things and everything in between are connected, writes Mark Longstaff, the director of technology for EMEA at OpenMarket. (more…)
June 13, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The security and privacy implications for the automotive industry are growing as cars increasingly become computers on wheels, writes Art Dahnert a consultant at Cigital. (more…)
May 3, 2016
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The British public and UK businesses expect government information to be readily available online in easy to understand formats at no, or at least very low cost, writes Stephen Chadwick, the managing director for EuroNorth at Dassault Systèmes. (more…)
April 22, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
In days of old, the most efficient way to get online was stare at your computer screen. With the advent of mobile, the next generation of apps was designed to suit a much smaller form factor and to handle potential issues that came with mobile such as slow connectivity or interruptions, writes Frank Palermo, the executive vice president of global digital solutions at Virtusa. (more…)
April 18, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Robin Scarborough, partner and managing director at Market Gravity, explains how the Internet of Things can enhance customer experiences, drive business growth and highlights the risks for those that don’t evolve. (more…)
March 25, 2016
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As the Internet of Internet of Things continues to pervade our daily lives, a number of industries including traditional industries are beginning to adopt IoT enabled technologies to help improve customer engagement, writes Christophe Bianchi, the CEO of Feeligreen. (more…)
March 22, 2016
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An increasingly diverse range of connected objects has joined the Internet of Things (IoT) in recent years, writes Simon Moffatt, the director of advanced customer engineering at ForgeRock. Whilst the IoT was once primarily the province of consumer gadgets and wearables, it now includes a growing number of luxury products such as connected cars and smart home systems. Indeed, according to IDATE, 420 million drivers will generate a connectivity market amounting to €9 billion by 2020. (more…)
March 16, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Beecham Research has been working with specialist IoT event organiser Vinelake to create a new series of IoT events organised specifically around business users (see outline of events at this link). The aim of these, explains Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research, is to be user centric and to explore the opportunities that M2M and IoT have for business users by assessing the business benefits they can gain from introducing connected device solutions. (more…)
February 10, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Who would have thought that the Internet of Things (IoT) could impact anything from artificial insemination of cows to supply chain management decisions, writes Nick Finch, the technical director of Concentra? (more…)
February 9, 2016
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Virtual Reality (VR) is closing the final gap before it becomes an accessible and comfortable consumer experience, writes Matthew Duke-Woolley, an analyst at Beecham Research. (more…)
January 27, 2016
Posted by: George Malim