Let’s face it, there will be no hiding in the future

One of the most interesting movies in the past couple of decades was the Minority Report. Perhaps one of its biggest impacts on society was alerting people to how technology may be used in the future by Law Enforcement.

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Fox’s ‘Glow Puck’ was the original sports IoT application

As a Canadian, hockey is pretty much in your blood, says Larry Bellehumeur of Novotech. Although I don’t follow the National Hockey League (NHL) that closely (I am more of a baseball and NFL fan), I have no issues “following” the game.

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Smart home: Solving problems or just making us lazy?

Hello and thanks for reading. I remember talking to a fellow entrepreneur who sold some of the least sexy products on earth…. ranging from toilet plungers to door stops.

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I’m 2.5 km below the earth’s surface … ‘Can you hear me now?’

Part of my rationale for spending money on space programmes is the number of spin-off technologies that have been created by/for the space industry… technologies that benefit all of us every single day.

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Can your toaster help solve a major hurdle to M2M’s success?

No, I haven’t “lost my marbles” and the title of this blog is actually not a joke. It stems from an interesting article (can’t find it online = sorry) in a recent issue of MacLife, where Rik Myslewski suggested exactly that. While the idea does sound a bit wacky, it may have some merit.

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How ‘free’ is free WiFi anyway?

March 12, 2014 (Blog) — OK, in my most recent guest post here on M2M Now, I may have creeped you out on how a trendy neighbourhood in Toronto was keeping a pretty close eye on all of its visitors. Although I grew up in Toronto, I haven’t been to that area in a long

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Big Data: Is it just ‘creepy’?

(Blog) — Ok, this takes creepy to new levels, says Larry Bellehumeur…  Last fall, I wrote a guest blog here about some very expensive (and intelligent) garbage cans that are being used in England.  Those were kind of creepy, as they were keeping track (anonymously) of how many users of a particular carrier were in certain

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Is M2M a waste of money?

(Blog) — As entrenched veterans in the machine-to-machine communications (M2M) industry, says Larry Bellehumeur, it’s easy to think what we do is absolutely vital and that anyone who doesn’t hop on the M2M bandwagon is crazy.

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Positioning M2M solutions to C-Suite executives… first up, to the CTO

(BLOG:) For many companies, wireless has been the domain of the purchasing department.  When wireless only meant voice, this made sense.

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