• IoT Smart Cities Market Heading to $148 Billion
    Along with smart watches, smart appliances, smart homes and smart buildings come smart cities. And based on a new research report, the Internet of Things devices that go into making cities smart will be growing significantly. The market size of the things that go into making a city smart will grow from $52 billion last year to $148 billion by 2020, according to the new global forecast by MarketsandMarkets.
  • Connecting Cars On The Road To Driverless
    Before cars become driverless, they will become significantly more connected. And the connections will bring to drivers features and activities in addition to those related to actual driving. Car systems will be able to connect and communicate with home appliances as well as sensors along a travel route providing precise traffic and driving information.
  • Smart, Connected Devices Open More Doors To Personal Networks
    The Internet of Things will cause countless new connections to many devices. There will be devices for monitoring, sensing, anticipating and measuring. Internet-connected devices in the home typically tap into that home's network, the same one that often provides Wi-Fi for the family, along with Web access, TV service and even telephone service to those who still have a landline.
  • US Qualifies Google's Self-Driving Car Technology As An Actual Driver
    That's a computer in the driver's seat. The U.S. government has told Google that its system for piloting a self-driving car can be considered the actual driver of the car. Google had asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to interpret a number of provisions in the federal motor vehicle safety standards as they apply to Google's design for motor vehicles that it's developing and testing. Google stated that its self-driving car has "no need for a human driver."
  • 18 Million Smartwatches Ship; 12 Million Are From Apple
    If traditional watchmakers want to keep up in the smartwatch race, there's one major target ahead of them: Apple. Now that the year is over, a tabulation of what wearables went where is out and, at least for smartwatches, Apple dominates. At 12 million units, Apple accounted for two-thirds of all smartwatch shipments worldwide, according to the Canalys Wearable Technology service. Overall smartwatch shipments totaled 18 million for the year, 8 million of which were in the last quarter.
  • Driverless Car Can Meet You In The Driveway
    So maybe the idea of driverless cars will start very small. Like using a smartwatch app to start the car, open the garage door and have the car drive itself out of the garage to meet you. Then you get in and take over the driving function. That's essentially what a new widely reported feature in the new Remote S for Tesla app does from an Apple Watch.
  • Super Bowl Viewers Meet The Internet Of Things
    Super Bowl viewers met Alexa. Or viewed another way, The Internet of Things just got introduced to the masses in a very big way. It’s not that Amazon’s Siri-like Echo is a brand new product, having officially launched last year, but it is new to many of the masses. The Super Bowl commercial for Echo used big names, tapping football great Dan Marino and well-known actor Alec Baldwin. While most consumers are unaware of The Internet of Things, they all know Amazon. And they now have seen that Amazon has something that can change …
  • Driverless Cars? 'You'll Have To Pry The Steering Wheel Out Of My Cold Dead Hands'
    While the technological feasibility of driverless cars may be just around the corner, there are quite a few hurdles between that and market adoption. Earlier this week, the chief executive of Porsche suggested that his company has no interest in anything but humans driving a Porsche and has no interest in working with any technology company to make anything but that happen. I wrote about that here a few days ago, and based on many readers' reactions, his comment hit quite a nerve.
  • World Going 'Smart:' 600 Million Wearables, Data To Surge
    In addition to many other impacts, The Internet of Things is going to add to the massive growth of mobile data traffic. Mobile users alone will reach 5.5 billion, or 70% of the entire global population by 2020, according to a new major study. The end result of connected devices will dramatically increase the amount of mobile data traffic eight times over the next four years, according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, which is part of an ongoing initiative to track the future.
  • Driverless Car? Forget About It. Porsche Says Keep That iPhone In Your Pocket
    The fundamental problem with pronouncements is that they can be remembered later. This many not be so bad if whatever was pronounced or predicted actually comes true somewhere down the road. But there are other cases where a statement that seemed totally logical at the time later proves to be beyond off-base. There are many classic examples of this from throughout the years.
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