MyGeotab fleet management software app now available in Google Play Store

Geotab, an open platform in telematics with more than 500,000 subscribers in 70 countries, reported that the MyGeotab fleet management software app is now available in the Google Play Store.

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Audio industry set to capitalise on new role at centre of the smart home, says new report

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.

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Smartphone VR to claim over half of VR device shipments by 2021, says Juniper

A new Juniper Research study has forecasted that there will be nearly 60 million smartphone VR headsets shipped in 2021, an increase of around 240% on an expected 16.8 million this year.

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How will we pay in 2020?

The history of payments is best described as a search for simplicity, security and convenience. Coins, banknotes, cheques, payment cards have all been introduced with the

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Why your toaster may be part of an attack on Google one day

One phenomenon that has always intrigued me is hypnotism, says Larry Bellehumeur of Novotech Technologies. It always seemed amazing and confusing to me that so-called “normal” people can have their common sense overridden to the point that they

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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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Discovering start-ups finalists announced, as CW competition showcases best in tech innovation

CW (Cambridge Wireless) has announced the 10 finalists for its Discovering Start-Ups 2016 competition, sponsored and hosted by Deloitte, the business advisory firm.

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Open collaboration will help bring about a single 5G standard, says Huawei’s Ding

At the FT-ETNO Summit held in Brussels, Huawei executive director and Products & Solutions president Ryan Ding said, “5G will be one of the cornerstones of industry digitalisation. A single global standard is vital.”

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Dumb thermometer shows why there’s a chill in the smart home market

There are significant challenges facing the smart home market, and perhaps the most visible is being caused and perpetuated by market fragmentation, says Thomas Rockmann, VP of Connected Home, Deutsche Telekom AG.

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Technology vs. Humanity

A review of the latest book by Gerd Leonhard, futurist, keynote speaker and author. I’ve been writing about technology for many, many years and along the way I’ve come to the conclusion that guru-type predictions tend to be pretentious and all too often they turn out to be wrong.

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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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VR Headset sales grow faster than expected as awareness grows and content improves

Global sales of dedicated virtual reality (VR) headsets will grow to 21 million units by 2020 — a tenfold increase over 2016.

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Revenue from smart audio hardware to increase from $1.4 billion to $5.5 billion by 2020

A new study by Juniper Research has found that revenue from smart audio hardware will more than triple over the next four years, rising from an estimated $1.4 billion this year to over $5.5 billion by 2020.

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ABI Research finds the future of BLE beacon shipments is not in retail

Though beacon retail technology is grabbing headlines, the future of BLE beacon shipments is not in retail.

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Emerging platforms for better-integrated M2M deployments

To illustrate the work already being done, Part 2 of this IoT standards article lists five groups that are working to make it easier for M2M applications and devices from different vendors to discover and communicate over diverse networks.

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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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