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How long will it take for Internet of Things Hello Barbie to be hacked?

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How long will it take for Internet of Things Hello Barbie to be hacked?

Watch out world, here comes Hello Barbie, an internet-connected smart Barbie. What could possibly go wrong? Network World | Feb 18, 2015 10:47 AM PT  Watch out world, here comes an internet-connected version of Barbie, complete with a wireless connection, microphone, speaker, advanced voice recognition capabilities, and a “customized cloud-based database of her owner’s likes and dislikes” so Barbie can have “real” back and forth conversations with her owner. Hello Barbie is expected to sell for $75 by…

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Why Your Things Need the Cloud

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Why Your Things Need the Cloud

Building the Next Big Thing Will Require Cloud Based Systems To Manage IoT Technology. By GotIoT  Every few years there is a new “next big thing” in the fast-changing computing industry. Sometimes these “next big things” have proven to be fads or simply repackaged versions of what has come before. But sometimes the latest craze is worth paying attention to because it signals a more significant shift to new capabilities and applications that will have a more profound…

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Tech Outlook: The Next Industrial Revolution

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Tech Outlook: The Next Industrial Revolution

The future belongs to the machines. More than one billion smartphones will be shipped this year, and several million smartwatches and fitness monitors of various sorts will be worn. But if predictions about the so-called Internet of Things are right, the number of unmanned computing devices that populate the world, connected over wired and wireless networks, eventually will dwarf the number of devices that people carry around with them. Market research from Gartner predicts that…

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As Objects Go Online Via The Internet Of Things

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As Objects Go Online Via The Internet Of Things

The Promise (and Pitfalls) of the Internet of Things By Neil Gershenfeld and JP Vasseur Since 1969, when the first bit of data was transmitted over what would come to be known as the Internet, that global network has evolved from linking mainframe computers to connecting personal computers and now mobile devices. By 2010, the number of computers on the Internet had surpassed the number of people on earth. Yet that impressive growth is about…

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The rise of IoT data and the death of politics

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The rise of IoT data and the death of politics

Government by social network? US president Barack Obama with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Internet of Things brings big data into the focus. Evgeny Morozov On 24 August 1965 Gloria Placente, a 34-year-old resident of Queens, New York, was driving to Orchard Beach in the Bronx. Clad in shorts and sunglasses, the housewife was looking forward to quiet time at the beach. But the moment she crossed the Willis Avenue bridge in her Chevrolet Corvair,…

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We finally know what comes after the smartphone

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We finally know what comes after the smartphone

I’m very sorry, but you have to learn two new technology acronyms today: IoT and ADAS. Neither is elegant, both are important. Yesterday was “CES Day Zero,” otherwise known as press day. It’s when all the major tech companies presenting at the show make their big keynote presentations and unveil the product lineups for the next months — if not the entire year. The CEOs of LG, Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, and Mercedes strode across their…

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The IoT service opportunity – The Next Business 3.0

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The IoT service opportunity – The Next Business 3.0

The internet of things (IoT) is a powerful, unstoppable, world-changing force. Analysts predict that 20 billion to 30 billion “things” will be connected to the internet by 2020. As such, launching an IoT business is quickly becoming an imperative across industries and around the world. Most companies have websites. If they didn’t, we’d question their viability. Fast forward 15 years from now, and we’ll be even more shocked when we hear of companies operating outside…

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Security Problems with IoT already?

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The Half-Baked Security Of Our ‘Internet Of Things’ It is a strange series of events that link two Armenian software engineers; a Shenzen, China-based webcam company; two sets of new parents in the U.S.; and an unknown creep who likes to hack baby monitors to yell obscenities at children. “Wake up, you little slut,” the hacker screamed at the top of his digital lungs last summer when a two-year-old in Houston wouldn’t stir; she happened to…

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In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One

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In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One

In our houses, cars, and factories, we’re surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Now they are beginning to talk to one another. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, even save our lives. On a 5-acre plot in Great Falls, Virginia, less than a mile’s stroll through ex­urban scrub from the wide Potomac River, Alex Hawkinson has…

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