Business & Markets

At trade shows across the world, product companies are unveiling a wide range of connected devices in a bid to get a slice of the growing Internet of Things market.

Reliance Group, India’s private sector business house, has formed a strategic partnership with Cisco Jasper for the launch of a new venture, UNLIMIT. This is solely dedicated to providing Internet of Things (IoT) services to enterprise customers throughout India.

Sierra Wireless, a provider of fully integrated end-to-end solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, announced the availability of the FX30, the industry’s smallest, most flexible and rugged programmable cellular gateway.

Voice recognition technology is shaking up the CE industry, broadening the horizons of speaker vendors and reinventing the audio device as the gatekeeper of voice, smart home and machine learning.

UNICEF announced its first portfolio of investments in open source technology solutions including tools that improve connectivity, real time data collection, identity technology and learning.

Orange and Porto Seguro Conecta are collaborating to support IoT (Internet of Things) projects in Brazil to meet the demand from multinational corporations.

In the Internet of Things (IoT) there is a single critical point: To make money, don’t look to the margin earned from selling your device. Turn instead to the potential for paid and perpetual recurring services that are “unlocked” by your device as the surer bet for long-term monetisation success. In other words, succeeding in

Establishing a solid telecoms network that can cope with the capacity and coverage required to power the Internet of Things (IoT) is a serious challenge telecoms companies need to address within the next 12 months if they are to keep pace with the rapid evolution of digital technologies.

After the biggest DDoS attack of all time was reported in late September, cyber-criminals wasted no time in mounting their next operation. Less than a month later, a further broad-based attack crashed major online services including Twitter, Spotify, Netflix and PayPal.

Minkels, part of the publicly traded company Legrand, recently introduced its first micro data centre, the MatrixCube. The company has now announced a second, more compact micro datacentre for the first quarter of 2017, the MiniCube.

Recent analyst and market reports make for unimpressive reading when it comes to consumer adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) smart home devices. Data released from the Deloitte Mobile Consumer Survey 2016 in September is just one example, which highlights how consumer ownership of connected devices has stagnated since 2015.

Libelium continues powering the Internet of Things (IoT) development adding LoRaWAN and Sigfox wireless connectivity for North America to Waspmote OEM and Waspmote Plug and Sense! sensor devices.

Machina Research has been acquired by Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company. The deal takes effect from November 9, 2016.

A new zero-day attack vector could be used to enhance the effectiveness of botnet tools used to launch recent attacks on Dyn, Krebs on Security and OVH. So says Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS).

You have probably heard about open source hardware and software technologies for the Internet of Things. But what does it offer you, and your customers, and how could it benefit the IoT market?

Qualcomm, the smartphone chipmaker, has acquired NXP Semiconductors for US$47 billion in the largest semiconductor acquisition of all time, says Yiru Zhong, senior industry analyst, Digital Transformation, Frost & Sullivan. (Also see: Qualcomm focuses on IoT as it agrees to buy chipset maker NXP Semiconductors for US$47bn.)