Jeremy Cowan
Life Lessons: Be confident in your own ability
As Jeremy Cowan hears from Andrew Carr, managing director at Camwood, it is vital to have courage in your convictions and actions. Of course, mistakes will happen sometimes as in the rest of life but it is to be confident in your own ability.
Read moreDTW aims to bring the target of enterprise digital transformation within reach
Digital transformation offers enterprises in all industry sectors the prospect of reduced costs, greater operational efficiencies, enhanced customer experiences and – underpinning it all – growing profitability. What’s not to like? Well, it’s harder to do than to say. So, ahead of Digital Transformation World (DTW) in Copenhagen, Denmark (20-22 September, 2022), Jeremy Cowan talks
Read moreIndustrial IoT simplicity is complexity resolved: It’s relayr’s secret sauce
“Part of the proverbial ‘secret sauce’ in our EaaS stack is this ability to bring expertise together. And to offer a simplified experience to the user base, because, of course, you can’t go shopping for an IoT platform and go shopping for an ERP system and glue everything together. It tends to be a bit
Read moreConnected transport specialist sees 9 global trends in Internet of Things
If you were asked to name one industry vertical with a lot to gain from connecting its devices, analysing their data, then using these insights to create new services, what would it be? Smart cities? Manufacturing? Healthcare? How about transport? It’s benefited hugely over the years from machine-to-machine communications (M2M), particularly in vehicle telematics. But
Read moreGoldman Sachs and the Quantum apocalypse
(WEEK IN IoT): So you’ve had your head around 5G communications and edge compute for years, and you see that low latency is every bit as important as connection speed and bandwidth. You’re across the Internet of Things (IoT), says Jeremy Cowan. Why wouldn’t you be? You read IoT Now daily and see applications in every industry.
Read moreRansomware halts IoT operations at Sierra Wireless, as maritime industry is hit 1.5mn times in 30 days
Last week started with some sensible guidance on cyber security. By Wednesday the theory became a nightmare reality for one of the Internet of Things (IoT) majors, Vancouver-based Sierra Wireless as it was halted by an all-out ransomware attack.
Read moreLoon is popped by sharp truths: Balloons won’t be ‘Connecting people everywhere’
(A Week in IoT) – When the news came on Friday that Loon’s journey is coming to an end it was a disappointment if, like me, you’re an admirer of flights of scientific and engineering ambition that combine business opportunity and social benefit. To be fair though, the news did not come as a shock, says
Read moreIoT helps companies serve existing customers and find new business, even in a pandemic
IoT is not only enabling organisations in numerous industries to continue operating, despite the Coronavirus. The Internet of Things is also helping to grow businesses and enabling companies to rise to new Covid-related challenges. Jeremy Cowan hears more from Mohsen Mohseninia, Aeris’s vice president for International Market Development and Suzanne Lancaster, European marketing director.
Read moreTransforma Insights creates advisory board to exchange industry views
Transforma Insights, advisors on the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and Digital Transformation, has announced the formation of an Advisory Board, drawing on a range of voices from across the technology sector.
Read moreCloud software provider Blackbaud pays ransom, as incidents rise globally
WEEK IN IT SECURITY – Just as we were reporting last week on our sister site The Evolving Enterprise that ransomware is behind 1 in 3 cyber security attacks on organisations, news was breaking of another major ransom attack, reports Jeremy Cowan.
Read moreWhy are some smart home businesses ‘bricking’ customers’ devices?
Wink recently gave its customers a two-day deadline to pay a subscription for its services or have them ‘bricked’, digitally blocked. Mark Samuel (MS), CEO of Ezlo Innovation, believes that not only is the “buy a subscription or we brick your device” model the wrong way to treat customers, it is also the wrong revenue
Read moreKilled off by NTT DoCoMo: NB-IoT still kicking globally, but for how long?
Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan editorial director of IoT Now turned to industry watchers for their views on the decision and what lies ahead for NB-IoT.
Read moreRays of sun are brightening the tech sector’s gloom
A WEEK IN IoT – The news hasn’t improved much lately, and it’s tough to digest a diet of disaster in the media, says Jeremy Cowan. We have to hold our hands up here for sharing tough news in www.TheEE.io , www.IoT-Now.com , and www.VanillaPlus.com ). So, don’t think I’m in denial when I try to lift the spirits a little
Read moreLife Lessons: Focus narrowly when you’re building a business
Alan Grau, VP of IoT at Sectigo, has been fascinated by business since the age of 10. Along the way, other people’s mistakes have taught him only to hire friends if they’re qualified, and to be ready for competition and opportunity wherever it comes from.
Read moreAlibaba expects security, performance and compatibility will drive growth of Bluetooth mesh for smart home ecosystem
Ru Yi, general manager of Alibaba A.I. Labs Smart Device Department, talks to Jeremy Cowan, editorial director & publisher of IoT Now about the future of smart homes.
Read moreWhat is the future of connectivity? And how do we think like attackers?
IoT Now’s editorial director quizzes Manfred Kube, head of IoT Products at Thales Analytics & IoT Solutions, about how connectivity is evolving in the Internet of Things and how we can secure our IoT devices.
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