Qualcomm helps make your mobile devices smarter with new Snapdragon processors

Qualcomm Inc. has announced at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara, California that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., is offering the first deep learning software development kit (SDK) for devices powered by Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820 processors.

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Nuage Networks and Accelerite collaborate to provide CloudPlatform for private and hybrid clouds

Accelerite, has announced that Nuage Networks, the Nokia venture focused on software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, has become an Accelerite CloudPlatform Technology Partner. The Nuage Networks Virtualised Services Platform (VSP) platform is certified for the Accelerite CloudPlatform.

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Who’s been watching my puppy?

Having set up petcams in my home to remotely monitor my new puppy’s behaviours with my 4G smart device when I am out, I was reminded about Shodan, the search engine that looks for IoT devices such as webcams and makes their streams available for viewing by anyone on the internet.

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Icon Labs provides a guide to security requirements for classes of IoT devices and systems

Icon Labs has announced that this whitepaper for IoT Device Engineers and manufacturers is now available.

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Apple adds Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) to Webkit

Excitement is in the air! Apple has given its seal of approval by placing Web Real-Time Communications into development for Webkit.

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What should businesses do to better protect themselves against security threats posed by IoT?

A recent report amongst IT decision makers revealed that security is currently the main barrier to IoT adoption by businesses. So how real are the threats and what do businesses need to do to combat them? Much attention to date has focused on security threats within the consumer landscape, as highlighted by the well-publicised Barbie doll hack,

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ZyXEL launches future-proof wireless LAN solution for growing businesses

ZyXEL Communications, provider of secure broadband networking, Internet access and connected home products, announced the launch of the NWA5123-AC 802.11ac Dual-Radio Unified Access Point.

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How can mobile operators cope with the overwhelming demand to connect everything?

The Internet of Things (IoT) has continued to snowball over the past couple of years, and it’s the buzzword that continues to dominate the tech world.

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Massive IoT? Massive set of security requirements

IoT is here right now but it’s also one of the biggest application areas for 5G. Yet it’s easy to forget that while the industry has a clear vision of services that it hopes 5G will facilitate, much remains to be determined on the technical front with standardisation activities just beginning.

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Whitepaper from myPINpad addresses flaws in many identity and verification methods

myPINpad, a provider of multi-factor authentication technology for unsecured touchscreen devices, has released a topical whitepaper.

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Addressing key IoT security concerns for manufacturers

The potential of the Internet of Things is no secret: Gartner predicts 20.8 billion things will be connected by 2020. Others say that number could be as high as 50 billion. But connecting technologies in new ways and deploying them in new cyber-physical environments creates countless new security threats.

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New Sequans LTE for IoT Module certified by AT&T

Sequans Communications S.A. has announced that its newest EZLinkLTE module, the US60L, has been certified to operate on AT&T’s 4G LTE network, having achieved technical acceptance (TA) from AT&T’s Network Ready Lab.

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Healthcare is now the top industry for cyberattacks

Five of the eight largest healthcare security breaches that occurred since the beginning of 2010 – those with more than one million records reportedly compromised – took place during the first six months of 2015, according to IBM X-Force’s 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index.

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The value of a standardised eUICC for M2M deployments

When we think about mobile, it’s natural to think about phones. But in fact by 2020, it is projected that handsets will account for only 72% of mobile connections. Instead, growth will come from connected M2M devices.

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Mobile payments and fraud survey finds merchants expanding mobile payments fast but still naïve about fraud

Despite mobile fraud growing by 81% between 2011 and 2015, nearly four out of ten merchants (38.5%) say their biggest challenge managing fraud risk in the mobile channel is figuring out if they even have a mobile fraud problem in the first place.

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Device Authority and Cryptosoft join forces to transform IoT security

Cryptosoft, has announced its acquisition of Device Authority Inc, a Gartner named cool vendor of the year 2015 for Identity and Access Management solutions for IoT, along with additional financing led by Tern plc and Alsop Louie Partners (ALP).

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