Industrial
COMPUTEX Taipei: Lanner unveils strategy for all angles of the Industrial Internet - Other
June 02, 2015Walter Yeh's promise of a show focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT) was upheld in my very first meeting, as Brian Chen of Lanner Electronics walke...
IoT
COMPUTEX d&i awards - Blog
June 01, 2015The day before COMPUTEX officially opened we trekked to the Taiwan International Convention Center in the shadow of Taipei 101 for a pre-show briefing...
Processing
Chipmaker consolidation continues: Avago Technologies to acquire Broadcom in $37 billion transaction - Other
May 28, 2015After losing out in the Freescale sweepstakes earlier this year to NXP Semiconductor, Avago Technologies appears to have satisfied its M&A appetite in...
Networking & 5G
Technology convergence, non-linear thinking help V2X architectures come of age - Other
April 15, 2015With the groundwork being laid for the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications infrastructure of the future, Scott...
IoT
Industry analysts: Net neutrality "mildly positive" for IoT - Other
April 09, 2015On February 26th the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 to reclassify broadband Internet under Title II of the Communications Act of 19...
Consumer
Building a smarter "smart home" on ZigBee 3.0 - Other
March 01, 2015No longer just gizmos and gadgets for the wealthy, devices for the smart home are fast becoming the purview of the every man. Estimates project that w...
IoT
Scenes from Embedded World 2015 - Lynda Kaye, Hughes Communications - Video
February 26, 2015In this view from Embedded World 2015, Lynda Kaye, Industry Strategist, Hughes Communications, discusses the Internet of Things (IoT), marketing strat...
Automotive
Drivers and their cars, a love story ... and infographic - Other
February 12, 2015Remember that Valentine's Day in 3rd grade when you asked your elementary crush to "be mine," only to find out that he or she had already been serenad...
Software & OS
Software-Defined Networking - A view from the top - Other
February 11, 2015Out of the loosely understood concepts of several years ago, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has evolved into a framework that will usher in the nex...
Consumer
Top 3 wearable sensor startups - Other
February 05, 2015Slide show -- It seems as though everyone has a wearable these days. From Fitbit to Pebble, they have pervaded the consumer market faster than you can...
Consumer
Force Impact Technologies lays a hit on concussions in youth sports - Other
February 05, 2015In recent years we've become increasingly aware of the long-term effects of head trauma, particularly in contact sports such as football, soccer, and...
Consumer
BeBop Sensors brings sensor fabric from musical origins into the "quantified self" - Other
February 05, 2015Another wearable tech vendor to emerge in recent months is BeBop Sensors (www.bebopsensors.com), a company that CEO Keith McMillen founded, strangely...
Consumer
Smartphones and smart socks make big strides in wearable textiles - Other
February 05, 2015In late 2014 I had the opportunity to meet with Davide Vigano, Co-Founder and CEO of wearable technology company Sensoria (www.sensoriainc.com). Unlik...
Open Source
How the newest IoT spec is more than, well, just another spec - Other
January 30, 2015Another IoT standards group? Say it ain't so! But in this quick Q&A, Samsung's Guy Martin and David McCall of Intel explain how the Open Interconnect...
IoT
Deconstructing the hype machine: Data analytics key differentiator for IoT - Other
January 28, 2015When I pulled up a chair next to Gartner's Paul O'Donovan at the 2015 International CES earlier this year, one of the first things he said to me was,...
Open Source
Open-source MEMS initiative seeks to reduce barriers to sensor development - Other
January 23, 2015Whether working with a single input or fusing data from multiple sources, getting sensors to work in real-world systems can be a daunting task for the...
Consumer
Floored: 2015 International CES - Other
January 13, 2015Slide show -- When you take off in Phoenix and land in Las Vegas, the only indicators that you've actually gone anywhere are the flashing lights and r...
Consumer
Who needs Oculus? PNI puts sensor fusion to work in "poor man's" virtual reality - Other
January 13, 2015Here was another pretty awesome showcase - a piece of card-board and a Nexus 5 phone that coalesced into a virtual reality platform. Okay, it's not ex...
Processing
Spansion sees synergies from Cypress merger - Other
January 13, 2015Always one of my better meetings on the conference circuit, Tom Sparkman of Spansion got right into his company's re-cent merger with fellow semicondu...
Consumer
Texas Instruments Takes the Next Step in Wearables - Other
January 13, 2015Another look at auto and the IoT came from TI, who leveraged sensor fusion technology for a couple of active safety demonstrations and took wearables...