Why smart devices and apps won’t make a smart home market

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.

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Embracing the ecosystem – the first step to thriving in the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things has taken the world by storm. With a long list of potential benefits for businesses and consumers alike, it is no surprise that there is a growing list of companies aiming to tap into the potential.

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Driving business growth with the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has seen new products and services launching and being developed at pace in the past 12 months. To take advantage of the opportunities from IoT, companies need be open to changing traditional systems, procedures, processes and ways of communicating.

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What extra services are IoT customers asking operators for?

As mentioned in Part One of this interview on Monday, Orange is finding a good new revenue stream in analysing mobile data for, among others, France’s tourism industry.

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CEO lifts the lid on EE merger in his book ‘The 4G Mobile Revolution’

A book written by Olaf Swantee, the former CEO of EE “reveals the lessons to take away from the merger of Orange and T-Mobile that led The 4G Mobile Revolution.”

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Online purchases via Apple Pay and Android Pay to reach US$8bn by 2018

New findings from Juniper Research claim that the value of digital and physical goods purchased through mobile ‘OS-Pay’ platforms will increase by fifteen times in the next two years.

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Waning enthusiasm for full-touch smartwatches to be offset by smart analogue watches

CCS Insight’s latest global forecast for smart wearable devices confirms the continued momentum of wrist-worn technology.

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Plagued by high failure rates Apple’s iOS loses smartphone performance battle to Android devices

Apple has lost its habitual ‘leader’ position to Android in the eternal smartphone performance battle. This is according to the Q2 2016 State of Mobile Device Performance and Health report released by Blancco Technology Group.

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Industry losing patience as regulators fail to keep up with IoT consumer security concerns …

Following the FTC’s recent announcement of its intention to study security update practices within the mobile industry, there is growing frustration in some quarters that the regulations take little account of the impact on the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Three IoT lessons from the Softbank acquisition of ARM

The news that Softbank, one of Japan’s leading telecoms operators, has made a move to acquire ARM, one of the strongest technology companies to come out of Britain has shaken the world and come as a bit of a surprise.

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New identity platform kills the password and ushers in ‘frictionless’ user experience, says ForgeRock

ForgeRock®, has released a new edition of the ForgeRock Identity Platform to enable organisations to orchestrate secure, frictionless user experiences using push authentication.

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What is the future of wearables in the enterprise?

Wearable devices like fitness bands, digital glasses, medical devices, smart watches, smart clothes and various other devices that augment our reality promise to radically change the manner in which information is collected, stored, processed, delivered and used.

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Wearable device shipments will grow at 29% CAGR until 2020, says new SNS Research report

While wearable technology has been utilised in vertical sectors such as the military and healthcare industries for many years, ongoing advances have triggered a major resurgence of the concept,

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Worldwide wearables market increases 67.2% amid seasonal retrenchment, says IDC

A combination of device releases, price reductions, and company rationalisations marked the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16) in the worldwide wearables market.

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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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First bite of the Apple?

What has the stand-off between the US tech giant and the FBI revealed about the future of encryption, personal data security and criminal investigations?

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