New York City is starting to see its first LinkNYC public Wi-Fi kiosks. The Links, so called, offer up speeds upwards of 300Mbps for free. “For comparison, that’s about thirty ...

Seemingly onto something, Amazon is reportedly readying a smaller, portable version of its voice-activated tabletop Echo speaker. The move is “building off the device’s surprise success since it was released ...

It will take that long for virtual reality headsets to become cheap and portable enough to replace smartphones as the tech industry’s dominant computing platform, the founder of Oculus VR has ...

Like any technological tsunami, The Internet of Things requires walking before running. And during that walking, some bumps along the way can be expected. One such bump just got highlighted ...

The Internet of Things is coming. Now the issues of privacy are floating to the top, more like scum than cream. We are warned by pundits to be wary of ...

The first casualty of war with our quantified selves may be self-delusion. Maybe that isn't as fine a prospect as it sounds. ...

It would be somewhat of a great understatement to say that The Internet of Things is a work in progress. As more connected things join the network, more people around ...

For a business to tap into the potential of The Internet of Things is going to require some buy-in from those at the top. Of course, a CEO or CMO ...

A landmark law privacy protecting people's health and medical information doesn't cover wearables like Fitbit, testing companies or online services that allow people to store individual health records, Pro Publica ...

IBM this morning announced it had acquired the Weather Co., which operates the Weather Channel, Weather Underground and extensive digital assets. And yes, it's all about Watson. ...

Space-Time Insight announced a new version of its real-time visual analytics software suite, SI Suite 6.0. The situational intelligence solutions company says the suite now provides real-time analytics for the ...

There are pockets of the Internet of Things. Attending the Xperience IoT Summit in Boston just a few days ago, I was in a room of several hundred people from ...

Almost everything is going to be on the Net. Well, not literally everything, but essentially most anything that has an on-off switch. If it can be turned on and off, ...

John Lewis has announced that start-up company Peeple has been chosen as the winner of its programme designed to fast track the Internet of Things tech companies into the retail ...

The biggest opportunities lie in the data. Each object within the IoT is monitoring our day to day routines, gathering data, communicating with other objects within our personal ecosystem, and ...

For me, the adoption curve of the Internet of Things is fascinating to observe. Take the PoloTech shirt from Ralph Lauren, for example. It's a "smart shirt": the skintight shirt ...

The Federal Trade Commission is calling for original research into privacy and security issues, including how "vulnerabilities" might be exploited to harm consumers. ...

A privacy policy update at Spotify angered some users, forcing CEO Daniel Ek to issue a non-apology apology of the digital startup sort. ...

Ring, a Santa Monica tech start-up that sells a doorbell with a video camera, announced a $28-million investment , mostly from business mogul Richard Branson and the venture capital arms ...

Google has partnered with TP-LINK to launch the home router OnHub, a different kind of device to keep search and display ads and YouTube videos serving up and playing without ...

The Romanian branch of Carrefour, Europe's largest retailer, has deployed a beacon solution at 28 of its stores throughout Romania, in order to deliver location-specific content to customers' smartphones. The Carrefour app uses beacon-based ...

Researchers from University of California at San Diego say they can hack into thousands of cars through a device used by insurance companies to monitor vehicles' location and speed. "By ...

The full potential of data can only be unleashed once we realise how many hidden gems are tucked away in silent silos. Let the data flow and the discoveries will ...

The Internet of Things (IoT: machine-to-machine) solutions may finally be ready for 'prime time.' Business Decision Makers (BDMs) report that IoT has become a top business priority and they are ...

Hacker Samy Kamkar says he has built a gadget that enables the takeover of GM vehicles with OnStar systems. The gadget, dubbed OwnStar, allows people to locate, unlock and start ...

My favorite new MediaPost publication is the IoT (Internet of Things) Daily. They haven't asked me to talk about this at all; I promise. But it's so cool. It's the ...

A privacy bill unveiled today would prohibit car manufacturers from using data collected from vehicles for advertising or marketing purposes, without obtaining owners' explicit consent. ...

Hulu has added Apple Watch support to its app, which can function as a remote, or let you pause and stuff. So now, you surely want an Apple Watch ...

Marketers may not think of IBM as driving the next vision for search services, including advertising and marketing, but the cognitive technology behind the next generation of search engines sits ...

T-3's ingenious "hands-free Tinder" app will use Apple Watch's heart-rate monitor to find matches triggered by a quickened heartbeat. Get ready for the emotion-based interface. ...