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Security and Privacy Big cloud service providers are already thinking about how to bring the Internet of Things together on an enterprise scale. IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, and Samsung (they’re obsessed with the IoT) have all developed platforms to help businesses manage their Things.

Police forces from LA and London to Moscow and Sydney are accelerating the use of body-worn cameras with over 1 million in use by 2021, said a new Beecham Research report published this week.

Exosite, LLC, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, has launched Murano, a cloud-based IoT software platform to enable end-to-end ecosystem that helps customers develop and deliver connected products.

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.

The potential benefit IoT can bring to an economy is growing at a rapid pace: recent figures show big data and IoT together are expected to generate £322 billion (US$ 456.41 billion) in revenue for the UK economy from 2015 to 2020 alone.

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.

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.

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

A new virtual/augmented reality hub to drive technology has been launched by two PhD students at Liverpool Science Park. This innovative technology sector is projected to be worth $150 billion by 2020.

Microsoft Corp. and the R3 Consortium announced a strategic partnership that will accelerate the use of distributed ledger technologies, also known as blockchain, among R3 member banks and global financial markets.

The CW (Cambridge Wireless) Future of Wireless International Conference, hosted at the IET: Savoy Place in London, UK, will focus on how industry is preparing, adapting and innovating for a fully-connected world.

A new Leaderboard report from Navigant Research examined the strategy and execution of 16 leading smart city suppliers, providing industry participants with an objective assessment of these companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the global market.

Google and Apple have already taken the first steps into the connected car market, and Microsoft is now also going on the offensive to get established in this up and coming market.

congatec, a provider of embedded computer modules, single board computers (SBCs) and embedded design and manufacturing (EDM) services, has added a “powerful graphics version” to its COM Express Basic Server-on-Module portfolio.

A study by Juniper Research shows that over 12 million consumer smart glasses will ship in 2020, with the majority of growth occurring after 2017. This is compared to less than a million devices shipped in 2016, from a variety of vendors.