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internet of things

The Azure cloud wants to power the Internet of Things

Before turning over the Keynote podium at Microsoft's Tech Ed Europe 2014 event to another Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Joe Bellfiore, Jason Zander brought two recent success stories to his audience's attention: the London Underground, "a user of Azure with IoT" Coca Cola "working with sel...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

As Cyber Attacks Grow in Volume and Intensity, The Long Term Viability of an Internet of Things Should be Reconsidered

Small to Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. are starting to directly feel the pain of the increased daily volume of cyber attacks, not to mention the malicious intent of the payloads they often include. Whether this pain amounts to persistent, annoying junk email, or the mess resulting fr...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

On the Need to Set Boundaries Around an Internet of Things

The March/April 2014 edition of Foreign Affairs includes an article titled As Objects Go Online, which was written by Professor Neil Gershenfeld of MIT, and JP Vasseur, Cisco Fellow and Chief Architect Internet of Things at Cisco Systems. This article appears to have been published to coincide wi...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Building a Data Security Model for the Internet of Things

Two executives from Cisco jointly presented a Keynote at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco. The Keynote was titled The New Model of Security Christopher Young, Senior Vice President, Security Business Group, and Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer spoke for 26 mins ...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Intel Introduces an embedded platform for industrial and automation markets and talks up 64-bit processors for tablets

On February 25, 2014, Intel® published a press release on its new embedded platform for industrial and automation markets. Titled “Intel Introduces Family of Virtualization Solutions for Industrial Systems”, the press release focuses on a new embedded system from Intel’s “Internet of Things” solu...

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Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Strong Quarterly Reports from NVidia and Control4 Point to Growing Consumer Appetite for New Smart Devices

The most recent quarterly earnings reports from NVIDIA and Control4 point to an increasing retail consumer appetite for home automation and "web connected" mobile transportation systems (cars). The expansion of automated features for automobile drivers is new, but the resurgence of interest in "s...

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Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

ProofPoint Uncovers Successful Malicious eMail Activity and Finds Security Holes in the Internet of Things

On January 16, 2014 ProofPoint published a press release, titled ProofPoint Uncovers Internet of Things (IoT) Cyberattack. According to the company, some 750K "Phishing and SPAM emails" were uncovered through ProofPoint's efforts. The sources of these attacks were traced back to a set of home ent...

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Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

What is Google’s Acquisition of Nest All About?

Back on April 1, 2013 I wrote a post to this blog about the Nest home thermostat, The Learning Feature of the Nest Thermostat is Interesting, But the Zigbee Internals and Compatibility with Smart Meters is More Important. On May 7, 2013, I interviewed Kate Brinks of Nest Labs and wrote a follow o...

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Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

The Internet of Things Does Not Need a New Common Language

Over the last several months Cisco, Salesforce.com, General Electric and other businesses have published a lot of promotional information about a new concept - the "internet of things". I've written earlier on this topic to voice two opinions: the notion is nothing new. Process control and indust...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago