Game streaming platform Twitch has updated its Android app to support for Android TV. As such, “Users can watch top players score epic goals in Rocket League in their living rooms,” The Next Web reports. “The app lets you watch live broadcasts and recorded streams of games and esports events.”

The next time you travel through Heathrow Airport, you can expect to see new Apple Watch-friendly barcode scanners aimed at making the check-in process easier. On Tuesday, British Airways announced its plans for installing the new “Scan and Go” devices at Heathrow airport by Dec. 15. Customers will find the new scanners in Terminals 3 and 5. Similar functionality is available from other airlines in the U.S., although scanning the boarding pass on an Apple Watch at the ticket counter is an awkward affair. Typically there’s no room to place your wrist underneath the scanner to get an accurate reading of the …

Big data is a big deal, make no mistake about it, but it’s probably not as big a deal as it’s going to be eventually when we really figure out how to make good use of it. For now, we have this muddled middle where we understand the value of the data, but most organizations and governments don’t know how to use that data to its full potential. In a recent issue of The Economist, two separate articles illustrated the state of big data today. In the first, Out of the box, it talks about the promise of open data, …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new invention that means that Internet of Things (IoT) systems can decentralise all their processing and devolve decision-making to local areas. It has also unveiled plans to simplify the roll out of IoT services with the Meridian cloud service. HPE’s new Edgeline IoT Systems 10 and 20 are designed to sit at the network edge, so that customers can aggregate and analyze data in real-time, more quickly and securely, and control devices and things, it says. By keeping data localised, they can also alleviate traffic across the network.

Freescale‘s newest chip is as thin as a blade of grass. Targeted at Internet of Things applications, which are expected to become a$1.7 trillion market by 2020, the Kinetis K22 microcontroller from Freescale is just 0.34 millimeters in height. But it packs a 120-megahertz processor and a variety of memories and interfaces into a tiny little package for Internet of Things applications. It’s small enough to serve as the chip brain of secure credit cards, wearables, and other razor-thin consumer electronics. Multiple products using the chip are expected to debut in the months ahead.

From fancy door locks to sprinkler systems, Denver-area companies are figuring out new ways to live smarter with the Internet by making things. Lots of things. The Internet of Things is a trend to build Internet connections into everyday objects to help people track and control those objects. Common IoT devices include light bulbs, watches and home thermostats such as Nest. There's even a new home-grown IoT community called TechRiot, backed by Arrow Electronics and the Innovation Pavilion in Centennial. What started as a meeting among interested IoT developers in July has grown to more than 1,000 members. That just gives …

Steve Ballmer thinks Microsoft should disclose profit margins and sales for its cloud and hardware businesses. “It’s sort of a key metric,” the company’s ex-CEO tells Bloomberg. “If they talk about it as key to the company, they should report it.” Microsoft currently reports an annualized revenue run rate for its commercial cloud business.

Apple has applied for a patent covering its iBeacon system, the poorly understood network it wants to build that might help it create maps of the inside of buildings or send ads to your iPhone as you walk past store shelves. While the existence of iBeacon itself is not news, the new application is interesting because it gives us more detail — and a lot of diagrams — on how Apple believes marketers ought to use the iBeacon network, how it can track iPhone users with a "Universally Unique Identifier," and the information it collects about you that can be used for …

Sales for the Apple Watch jumped over the holiday weekend thanks to a series of special offers, alluding to a potentially brighter future as prices come down and opening up new opportunities for developers. Apple Watch product sales are likely to reach 6 million this December according to analyst Daniel Ives of FBR & Co, based on checks with Apple, which means the product is likely to become a more important aspect of consumer behavior in the near future. A wider base of marketers will need to look at the device as a means of communication with consumers, but also can …

As companies race to embrace the inanely-named "internet of things" (IOT), security and privacy are usually a very distant afterthought. That's been made painfully apparent by "smart" refrigerators that expose your Gmail credentials, "smart" TVs that transmit your living room conversations unencrypted, or "smart" tea kettles that compromise your Wi-Fi network security. In all these examples the story remains the same: everybody's so excited to connect everything and anything to the internet, few companies can be bothered to do so intelligently and correctly.  And with the mad rush to bring this kind of aggressive myopia to toys, the lack of security is now impacting kids as well. …