Cisco pay-as-you-go cloud service aims to help cities work better with sensor, camera and device data

At Smart City Expo World Congress 2016 this week, Cisco will showcase a cloud service that helps city leaders take action with their data in real time.

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Deutsche Telekom builds a multi-IoT platform in its ‘House of Cloud’

Different standards and platforms are an obstacle to the expected business development of the Internet of Things (IoT). Deutsche Telekom has now developed a solution to this problem at its cloud data centre in Biere, launching a multi-IoT platform at its House of Clouds.

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VimpelCom and Cisco Jasper partner to help enterprises implement, manage and monetise IoT services

Cisco and VimpelCom Group, a global provider of telecommunications and digital services headquartered in Amsterdam and serving over 200 million customers, announced that VimpelCom has selected Cisco Jasper to be the Smart Connectivity management platform across its network operator properties globally.

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How can you ensure end-to-end interoperability between products and services?

In July Actility, a provider of low power wide area (LPWA) networking and the company behind the ThingPark LPWA IoT platform, launched the ‘ThingPark Approved’ programme. Actility also welcomed the first partners to achieve ThingPark Approved status. Here, Jeremy Cowan of IoT Now asks Christophe Francois, vice president Ecosystem at Actility how to ensure service

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Designing what matters for the Internet of Things

As the IoT unfolds it’s critical, says Tony Milbourn of u-blox, not to lose track of what really matters and to provide the technologies, modules and security to keep them robust and reliable.

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Cisco finally focuses on the Internet of Things, cloud, data centres and software solutions

EDITORIAL: On Wednesday Cisco wrapped up a “great year” in the words of its CEO by preparing to lay off one in every 14 of its workforce (or 5,500 people worldwide). The IT giant is at last turning its guns on the Internet of Things.

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Companies don’t make things

Companies don’t make “things”: that is not how most companies view their manufacturing activities. They make products, which is why I prefer the term “Internet of Smart Connected Products”, even though it is a bit of a mouthful.

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Cisco to cut 5,500 jobs as it refocuses on the Internet of Things and security solutions

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) (#NeverBetter) has announced 5,500 job losses worldwide, representing 7% of its entire workforce, despite its CEO, Chuck Robbins reporting a “great year”. Fourth quarter revenues rose 2% to US$12.6 billion. Jeremy Cowan reports.

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Device Authority named as UK’s ‘Most Innovative’ small cyber security company

Device Authority, a global provider of policy and device-driven security for the Internet of Things (IoT), has been named as the UK’s Most Innovative Small Cyber Security Company at InfoSecurity Europe 2016.

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Condeco acquires myVRM to enhance end user experience and workflow automation platform

International workplace technology provider Condeco Software has acquired myVRM, a New York-based software company with workflow automation expertise in video collaboration, content sharing, unified communications, virtual meetings and analytics.

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To put rivals at a major disadvantage IBM & Cisco combine with Watson IoT platform

Cisco and IBM have announced a global collaboration to provide “instant Internet of Things (IoT) insight at the edge of the network”.

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Collaborative innovation in the Internet of Things

The internet of things can appear double-edged. By connecting billions of devices, it is generating a great volume and variety of real-time data that makes it possible to create insight, improve services and deliver better outcomes for citizens, cities and business.

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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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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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Eurotech wins $1.4 million contract in the United States with King County Metro

Eurotech, a supplier of embedded technologies, products and IoT systems, announced a contract with King County Metro Transit to deliver its mobile access router to buses in the greater-Seattle area.

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Four Industrial Revolutions and an Internet of Things – is industry IoT ready?

Industry 4.0 refers to the fourth industrial revolution – the first being manufacturing and mechanisation, the second mass production and the third the digital revolution.

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