What works best with IoT devices: hardware vs software presentation
Thursday, March 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Icon Labs, a provider of security solutions for IoT and edge devices, has announced Icon Labs President Alan Grau has been selected to present at Embedded World Show Europe. Alan’s presentation will provide engineers, product managers and executives with an overview of the available security technologies for the IoT and IIoT, and a framework to start building secur...
Just what is the DroneDeploy app market
Monday, November 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
PwC has predicted the global market for commercial drone technology to reach as much as $127 billion by 2020, and the FAA believes at least 543,000 drones will be in civilian hands by 2020. Developers will play a critical role in helping business adopt drones on every job site - whether it’s to monitor construction sites, improve farming methods, verify insurance claims...
IoT Tech Expo descending on Silicon Valley next week (October 2021st)
Friday, October 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
The IoT Tech Expo will be descending on Silicon Valley for 2 days (October 20-21st) of top-level content, discussion, case studies, live demos, workshops and plenty of networking opportunities. There will be 8 conference tracks, an exclusive Samsung Workshop, IoT hackathon and a vast exhibition including robotics, 3D pizza printers, drones, mind-reading tech and more! O...
Cortet Connectivity Suite gets new features to better control IoT devices
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
CEL has announced that it has added new features for its Cortet Connectivity Suite. Cortet enables building automation, lighting control, and industrial and machine to machine (M2M) product manufacturers to confidently link their physical 'things' to the digital world.CEL’s new Cortet Voice Control makes it easy for integrators and manufacturers to add natural voi...
CTIA Super Mobility 2016 Will Turn Expo Floor Into a Smart City
Sunday, June 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
CTIA Super Mobility 2016 will be transforming its show floor into a Smart City with approximately 1,000 companies exhibiting products and services for mobile-first businesses and connected consumers.The conference will be held September 7-9, 2016 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev., USA. A projected 30,000 technology and business professionals wil...
CTIA Super Mobility 2016 Will Be Held September 7 9 in Las Vegas
Monday, April 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
CTIA Super Mobility 2016 will focus on the vertical markets that comprise the connected life for business, home, networks, retail, health, auto, media and money. The event will be held September 7 - 9, 2016 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.The event includes exhibits, keynotes and interactive smart experiences that demonstrate and advance t...
2016 IoT Tech Expos Will Be Held In London, Berlin and San Francisco
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The IoT Tech Expo has released it’s the dates for its 2016 world series with IoT Tech Expo’s in London on February 10-11, Berlin on June 13-14 and in San Francisco October 20-21.The IoT Tech Expo events offer five conference tracks with 200 speakers, 100 exhibitors, networking, incubator programs, live hackathons, and more. Conference tracks include Connecting Living, C...
Choosing Your Next Industrial Mobility OS
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 by Mark Kirstein
With Windows Mobile and CE About to Sunset, Android and Windows 10 are Tomorrow’s Top OptionsToday’s mobile operating system landscape presents choices for industrial enterprises when it comes to selecting the platform upon which their applications should be built. When you think about a global enterprise distributing internal mobile solutions, you’re talking about...
GSMA's Mobile IoT Initiative Wants You to Develop Using LPWA Solutions
Sunday, August 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
The GSMA announced that it has established the ‘Mobile IoT Initiative’, a new project backed by a number of mobile operators, OEMs, chipset, module and infrastructure companies, whose goal is to address the use of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions in licensed spectrum. The GSMA is a trade organization representing the interests of nearly 800 mobile operators inc...
CTIA Super Mobility 2015 Hits Las Vegas in September
Monday, July 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Ok, I know it is hot in Las Vegas in September, but since all the good stuff at this year’s CTIA Super Mobility 2015 conference will be at the Sands Expo Center, a top Las Vegas destination on the best part of the strip, you really won’t be spending too much time outside. The Sands convention venue is huge, when I was there for CES earlier this year much of that ev...
Eseye Offers Enhanced M2M Real Time Device Management
Monday, June 22, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Eseye has announced updates to the functionality of its SIM Information and Account Management Portal (SIAM). SIAM R3.0 extends the platform’s ability to facilitate day-to-day management and administration, and includes the ability to quickly create requests for assistance from the support team.The SIAM portal provides a window to all connected M2M devices, allowing rea...
Consumer Adoption Could Drive IoT Initiatives
Saturday, June 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
ThroughTek, a cloud-based platform for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) industry operations provider, has announced findings from its “2015 Internet of Challenges Report” around consumer adoption and identified challenges regarding the Internet of Things (IoT). The online survey was taken in May 2015 and included 1,181 adults. The figures have been ...
Zebra Technologies Creates New ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit for Zatar
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Zebra Technologies Corporation has collaborated with ARM to create an ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit for Zatar powered by Atmel’s Xplained board to enable simple, standards-based cloud connectivity for creating Internet-aware, enterprise products integrated with the Zatar IoT cloud platform.The ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit for Zatar is a ready-made, standards-based reference desi...
Sierra Wireless and L&T Technology Services to Offer Linux Based Internet of Things (IoT) Platform
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sierra Wireless and L&T Technology are teaming up to establish a Legato Lab, designed to support the development of IoT applications with the Sierra Wireless’ Legato embedded application platform. The two companies will jointly market their respective products and services to customers in the automotive, transportation, and industrial markets.The Legato platform is ...
IBM Announces $3 Billion IoT Initiative
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced that it plans to spend $3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) business unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions.These resources will be made available on an open platform to provide manufacturers with the ability to design and p...
DataArt Launches M2M IoT Consulting Services
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
DataArt, a provider of custom software solutions, has announced the launch of its M2M/IoT consulting practice, to meet the quickly growing demands of the IoT marketplace. The new practice group is dedicated to helping clients who are interested in experimenting with the Internet of Things (IoT) space across a variety of industries, including insurance, utilities, h...
Aeris Launches Neo Marketplace for Internet of Things (IoT) and M2M Connectivity
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Aeris is launching the Neo marketplace for IoT and M2M connectivity with a goal of simplifying the development process, speeding time-to-market, and lowering costs.The Neo online platform enables prospective customers the ability to purchase a connectivity solution in minutes, and have a fully functional solution within a day. The program requires no volume requirements...
App Dev Trends Conference at Mandalay Bay Las Vegas in December – Count Me In!
Monday, September 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
I don’t know what you’re doing the first of December but I’ll be at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas covering the new App Dev Trends conference on December 8-11, 2014.The event is being hosted by 1105 Media which conducts a number of conferences including the Visual Studio Live!; Live! 360; and TechMentor events. 1105 Media is also the publisher of Appl...
RacoWireless Launches IoT App Marketplace for Mobile Developers
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
RacoWireless has announced the launch of its Application Marketplace, an IoT app store that allows companies build, enhance and sell connected IoT/M2M solutions. The Application Marketplace allows app developers to create new revenue streams by offering their value-added products and features to a growing community of solution and service providers. Solutions...
AT&T to Give Away Over $100,000 in Two Days at the AT&T Hackathon @ Super Mobility Week Code for Car and Home
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
AT&T is going to give away $100,000 during a 24-hour Hackathon as part of Super Mobility Week in Las Vegas. The Hackathon, app presentations, and judging will take place on September 6-7, and the finalist judging, awards & VIP Party will be held on September 8. There is no charge to compete, however developers are encouraged to sign up prior to the hackatho...
RacoWireless to Offer Developers Cloud Based M2M Development Tools
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
RacoWireless, a machine-to-machine (M2M) service provider, is making available the Omega DevCloud to facilitate communication with IoT applications in a standardized environment. The platform will assist device communication by providing an interface that is able to take device messages and commands, in any format and on virtually any device, and translat...
Google and Android Are Not the Same... and That’s a Good Thing
Monday, July 28, 2014 by Terry Hughes
Android and Google may seem synonymous with each other, but they are actually quite different. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is an open-source software stack for any device, from smartphones to tablets to wearables, created by Google. Google Mobile Services (GMS), on the other hand, are different. GMS are a range of Google-branded services that Google want...
Extending Back End Systems to the Real Time Web
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 by Peter Moskovits
The Web was first designed for a very simple task: to distribute documents to wide audiences, primarily in academia. The browser, a dumb document-rendering engine, was introduced to display these uploaded documents, and thus eliminate or minimize the need of installing and maintaining applications on clients. And lastly HTTP, the underlying communications protocol betwe...
Eclipse Shoots for the Moon with Luna Release
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse Luna which includes official support for Java 8 in the Java development tools, Plug-in Development Tools, Object Teams, Eclipse Communication Framework, Maven integration, Xtext, Xtend, Web Tools Platform, and Memory Analyzer. The Eclipse compiler includes language enhancements, search and refactoring, Quick Ass...
ABO Data announces the US availability of PLAT.ONE Enterprise Grade Internet of Things Application Platform
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
ABO Data has announced the US availability of PLAT.ONE, an enterprise-grade Internet of Things application platform. PLAT.ONE has already been available in Europe supporting Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. PLAT.ONE provides the ability for enterprises to create scalable and secure, multi-tenant, cloud-ready application ...
Software AG Releases Internet of Things (IoT) Solution Accelerator
Saturday, May 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
Software AG has unveiled its Internet of Things (IoT) Solution Accelerator, a tightly-bundled set of smart tools to help gain actionable insights from different, disparate data sources.The new Software AG IoT Solution Accelerator enables the ability to visualize and analyze the performance of devices individually or together. It also allows the development of ...
OASIS Consortium Approves OData 4.0 Standards for Open, Programmable Web
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The OASIS international open standards consortium announced the approval of the Open Data Protocol (OData) 4.0 and the OData JSON Format 4.0. These REST-based standards simplify the querying and sharing of data across applications for re-use in the enterprise, cloud, and mobile devices. With OData, information can be accessed from a variety of sources including rel...
Weekly Roundup: Apple Developer Outage, Jellybean 4.3, Amazon and Windows Phone, Unity and Blackberry 10, and GDC 2014
Saturday, July 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
From the Editors DeskThis weekend is the last weekend before the August issue release and there has been no shortage of news to cover! From the Apple outage, to the Android 4.3 Jellybean update this week has been one for the books! We won't be publishing a podcast this week, while put all of our efforts towards putting the finishing touches on the August issue, but we'l...
BlackBerry Supports Bluetooth Smart Ready to Drive M2M App Development
Friday, July 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
BlackBerry has announced native support in BlackBerry 10 for Bluetooth Smart Ready, to help provide seamless connectivity between Bluetooth Smart devices. Tightly integrated into the BlackBerry 10 platform, developers can now easily incorporate Bluetooth Smart functionality into their BlackBerry 10 applications.
BlackBerry 10 applications can be written to leverage the...
Everything.me, can it really bridge HTML5 and Native apps
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
Native apps are stealing the show when it comes to usage and functionality on mobile devices these days, but a lot of companies continue to hold out hope that more open HTML5-based mobile web services will ultimately win the day. In the meantime, those who can straddle the two worlds beautifully and effectively may end up the winners.One example comes in the form of Eve...
