Tag: Internet of Things
NSA’s IoT security algorithms rejected over surveillance fears
NEWSBYTE The US National Security Agency (NSA) has had two of its new encryption algorithms for the Internet of Things (IoT) rejected by an...
Smart cities: Intel’s IoT chief on how communities can win |...
Intel sponsored a recently published report that said smart cities will give every person back 125 hours a year. The report then went deeper, showing...
Amazon launching new ‘Vesta’ domestic robots in 2019: report
Retail and Web services giant Amazon is said to be working on a new breed of domestic robots, in a project codenamed ‘Vesta’ –...
Google losing to AWS and Azure for cloud IoT platforms
NEWSBYTE Developers are favouring AWS and Azure to create cloud-based IoT platforms, according to a developer survey by the Eclipse Foundation. But Google’s Cloud...
Qualcomm layoffs suggest the chips are down for industry
NEWSBYTE Embattled US chip giant Qualcomm has confirmed in a WARN filing (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) that it is cutting 1,500 jobs in...
Drones: FLIR eyes emergency services market with DroneSense investment
Thermal imaging specialist FLIR has announced a strategic investment in DroneSense, a Texas-based software platform that aims to help emergency services manage drone operations.
The move...
Will 5G be the big casualty of China-US trade war?
As the war of words hots up between the US and China over some $150 billion in bilateral trade tariffs, evidence that 5G and...
Research questions accuracy of drone data in agriculture
Farmers keen to adopt drone technology to improve crop health should be wary of 'off the shelf' aerial products, according to researchers at the University...
Industry, government, academia to create global smart city roadmap
New plan to plot a roadmap for urban transformation.
A research programme has been launched to provide city leaders around the world with a roadmap...
Qualcomm debuts IoT Vision Intelligence Platform, amid takeover rumours
US chip giant Qualcomm Technologies has announced its new Vision Intelligence Platform, which features a new system-on-chip (SoC) family purpose-built for Internet of Things...
Security: Why you should worry about unsecured IoT devices – Mozilla
The BIG READ. Mozilla has published the full version of its long-awaited Internet Health Report 2018. Chris Middleton looks at what it has to...
IoT security: Half of IT departments don’t change default passwords
Almost half (47 percent) of CIOs and IT managers have allowed IoT devices onto their corporate network without changing the default passwords – even...