Tag: Quocirca
Otto closes doors on $699 smart lock business
Otto, the IoT-enabled door lock company, closed down and sacked all of its staff just before Christmas.
Otto's business was built on a door lock...
VMware teams with Adlink to offer pre-integrated IoT product
VMware, the cloud infrastructure and virtualization vendor, is teaming with Adlink Technology, a Taiwanese designer and manufacturer of embedded and edge computing products, to...
IoB Insiders: Why are so-called ‘smart meters’ so very dumb?
IoB Insiders: Quocirca analyst Clive Longbottom discusses why many smart meters, currently being rolled out across the UK, are not all they're cracked up to be.
If you...
IoB Insiders: Time to contemplate the end of the smartphone?
IoB Insiders Rob Bamforth, analyst at Quocirca, asks: Is it time to contemplate the end of the smartphone era and if so, what will its replacement...
Sierra Wireless to acquire Numerex to boost IoT capabilities
Sierra Wireless, the Canadian wireless communications designer and manufacturer, is to acquire managed Internet of Things (IoT) products and services provider Numerex for $107m.
According...
“Scary” number of healthcare IT execs put faith in inadequate IoT...
More than 70 percent of healthcare IT decision makers (ITDMs) believe that traditional security products can secure IoT-onnected medical devices.
That’s according to a survey...
Wearables: Look for compelling use cases, not empty wrists
IoB Insiders - Rob Bamforth, analyst at Quocirca, discusses the challenges facing the wearables market, and why he believes devices with a strong use-case story...
Plotting to rule the IoT via graphs
IoB Insiders Clive Longbottom, analyst at Quocirca, makes the case for using graph databases when dealing with increasingly complex IoT platforms.
At a high level, the...
ENISA works with industry on IoT cybersecurity requirements
The EU Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), an advisory body for the European Union (EU), has been working with several European semiconductor vendors...
IoB Insiders: IoT gets us into another fine mesh
IoB Insider Rob Bamforth of analyst company Quocirca, on why the time has come for commercial IoT applications to use the mesh technologies more...
Honeywell introduces industrial cybersecurity software to tackle USB threats
Industrial automation company Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has developed cybersecurity software to protect industrial facilities from USB-borne threats.
'Removable media' like USBs are part and...
IoB Insiders: Wearables and companion devices in the workplace
IoB Insiders Rob Bamforth, analyst at research company Quocirca, considers how organizations can adapt to and prepare for the growing number of different wearables being...