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Honda forced to shut down plant due to ransomware infection
Japanese automotive company Honda was forced to halt production at one of its manufacturing plants when it discovered the WannaCry ransomware virus had infected...
Bosch makes historic investment in IoT with new wafer fab
German engineering company Bosch has placed a big bet on the future value of the IoT, with a €1 billion investment to build a...
Honeywell’s IoT Connected Aircraft takes flight
Industrial automation company Honeywell has taken its Boeing 757 IoT-connected test aircraft on a tour, in order to showcase its promise for the flying...
Start-up of the month: IoTium – time for network-as-a-service
Internet of Business speaks with Ron Victor, CEO and founder of network-as-a-service provider IoTium, about how a new way to acquire network infrastructure could...
With machine learning, Control F1 recognizes drivers within minutes
Digital technology company Control F1 has this week been granted a worldwide patent for its machine learning system for driver recognition.
The system supposedly uses...
IoT spending to reach $1.4 trillion by 2021, says IDC
In the latest update to its Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide, research company IDC has forecast that worldwide spending on IoT will...
GE moves to automate industrial field service operations
During this week’s Minds+Machines conference in Berlin, General Electric (GE) made two announcements aimed at changing the nature of industrial field service operations.
As might...
Nokia launches fifth Open Innovation Challenge with focus on IoT
Finnish telecoms heavyweight Nokia has launched its Open Innovation Challenge for the fifth year running, with a focus on IoT.
Nokia is calling on start-ups and...
Aruba releases new IoT products for large campus deployments
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has launched a new enterprise core and aggregation switch, and a new operating system, ArubaOS-CX, to meet the...
AWS launches Greengrass for IoT edge computing
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its AWS Greengrass software generally available to all customers.
AWS Greengrass, which was launched in limited preview late last...
Actility and Blink partner on national IoT network for Sweden
French low-power, wide-area network (LPWAN) specialist Actility has partnered with Swedish LoRaWAN company Blink to roll out a national IoT network in Sweden.
The companies...
Apple joins race for smart home supremacy with HomePod
Apple has upped the ante in the race for smart home supremacy with the launch of HomePod at its worldwide developers' conference in San...