AT&T said Monday it is partnering with Microsoft to debut an IoT solution for quick deployment of asset monitoring and management solutions in the Cloud. The new IoT solution called AT&T Asset Management – Operations Center, will be run on...

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO), co-chairs of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, along with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-WA) and Steve Daines (R-MT) on Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation to improve the cybersecurity of Internet-connected devices. The...

Philips Lighting, a provider of lighting solutions, announced on Friday what it called “the first application” of an autonomous, indoor drone that uses Visible Light Communication (VLC technology) from Philips Lighting to navigate. The drone, developed by Blue Jay, can...

Sprint announced Tuesday it will complete its deployment of LTE Cat 1 technology across its nationwide network by the end of July 2017. In addition, Sprint announced plans to begin deploying LTE Cat M in mid-2018 followed by LTE...

IT firm Atos and Dell EMC said Tuesday they are joining forces to address the growing Internet of Things (IoT) and business analytics markets. Both companies are working together to build an IoT service management framework which they say will...

Spanish device maker and solution provider SAYME and the South-Korean module manufacturer Wisol said Wednesday they are aligning to become the biggest high-quality LPWAN IoT solution maker with the best cost-benefit ratio of the market. In the IoT context, collaboration...

If this is not a testament to the frightful reality of the possibilities promised by the internet of everything, then nothing is. A manufacturer of IoT garage doors (don’t ask why it is necessary for a garage door to...

Verizon says it has launched what it calls “the first nationwide commercial 4G LTE Category M1” (or Cat M1) network, which spans 2.4 million square miles. According to the company, this is the “first and only” Cat M1 network...

Mastercard announced Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire NuData Security, a global technology company that helps businesses prevent online and mobile fraud using session and biometric indicators. The acquisition will strengthen its efforts around device-level...

Communications technology and services company Ericsson said Wednesday it has signed a “healthcare IoT strategic MoU” with China Mobile and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to connect healthcare equipment using NB-IoT technology. The partnership aims to capitalize on the potential of...

The GSMA said Wednesday it has launched an “IoT Big Data API Directory” to make harmonized data sets from multiple sources worldwide available to developers and third parties, enabling them to create “innovative” new Internet of Things (IoT) services. According...

IBM, Nokia, Palo Alto Networks, Symantec and Trustonic are partnering to use their combined expertise to help tackle today's top Internet of Things (IoT) security challenges, said AT&T last week. The companies have formed what they call an IoT Cybersecurity...

Technical standards body GlobalPlatform has published a framework which details how trusted applications hosted on a GlobalPlatform compliant Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) can be remotely and dynamically managed. The framework is applicable to any type of device including mobile and...

Honeywell said last week that it will collaborate with Intel to develop new Internet of Things solutions for the retail industry to enhance logistics, improve inventory visibility and drive supply chain efficiencies. The Honeywell and Intel collaboration will focus on...

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday issued a green paper outlining guiding principles and an approach to support the advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT). According to the Department, IoT is a transformational evolution in global technology with...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday announced a prize competition that challenges the public to create a tool that consumers can deploy to guard against security vulnerabilities in software on the IoT devices in their homes. According to the...

  The zigbee alliance announced Tuesday that from CES 2017 this week it will be showcasing the path to what it called “a unified Internet of Things.” Highlights will focus on the growing momentum behind zigbee (3.0) products and development solutions,...

Citing an enormous potential to reduce crashes on U.S. roadways, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a proposed rule Tuesday that would advance the deployment of connected vehicle technologies throughout the U.S. light vehicle fleet. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, The Center for Digital Democracy, and Consumers Union have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Genesis Toys and Nuance Communications for what they...

Sigfox, the world’s leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), said Friday it is closing its Series E funding round of €150 million ($159 million) to accelerate the expansion of its global network and soon reach...

SAP and GE Digital said Wednesday they are collaborating in the area of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Building on the respective strengths of GE Digital and SAP, the companies plan to focus their initial efforts on opportunities to...

Relayr has said it is partnering with Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB), part of Munich Re, to create customized insurance products to relayr's customers making IoT investments. HSB has 150 years of experience insuring the equipment and technology used by...

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, member supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), said on Thursday that it will collaborate with the IoT Acceleration Consortium (ITAC) to further the development...

AT&T has enabled LTE-M technology on its first site in the San Francisco market to support the pilot of AT&T's LTE-M Low-Power Wide-Area network at the AT&T Labs in San Ramon, the company said. LTE-M will connect a wide variety...

Vodafone said Wednesday that it will launch what it called “the world’s first live commercial NB-IoT networks” in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain in the first three months of 2017. NB-IoT is the newly agreed standard for an industrial...

Nutonian, a machine intelligence company, said Tuesday it is forming an OEM relationship with Autodesk, the global leader in design software and services. Autodesk’s Fusion Connect, an IoT cloud platform, will embed Nutonian’s artificial intelligence (A.I.) modeling engine, Eureqa,...

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and the AllSeen Alliance, two groups that have been developing separate open-source frameworks for standardizing the means by which IoT products communicate with each other and connect to networks, announced Monday that they have...

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) last week released a guidance report titled, Future-proofing the Connected World: 13 Steps to Developing Secure IoT Products, created to help designers and developers of Internet of Things (IoT) related products and services understand...

AT&T said Wednesday it is introducing data plans for developers and businesses to wirelessly connect their Internet of Things (IoT) projects. The data plans allow developers to purchase a bucket of prepaid data to power up to a thousand devices on...

IBM on Monday unveiled a $200 million USD investment in the new global headquarters for its Watson Internet of Things (IoT) business in Munich. The company is exploring new IoT capabilities around Blockchain and security and an array of clients...

Johnson & Johnson has issued a security alert on one of its insulin pumps, sending letters to consumers warning them of a vulnerability that hackers could exploit to overdose diabetic patients. “We have been notified of a cybersecurity issue with the...

A new report by the cyber arm of Auditing firm KPMG states that cybersecurity concerns may adversely affect the realization of the full potential of internet of things devices. Titled, Consumer Loss Barometer, the report found that nearly a third...

Isreal-based IoT platform newcomer Reposify said Friday it wants to become the Google for the Internet of Things. The cyber-sensing company launched a platform which it says is to research all the devices available on the internet in real...

German software maker SAP SE, said Wednesday it is spending €2 billion euros through 2021 to help business and government entities benefit from the proliferation of sensors, smart devices and Big Data that is transforming business with the Internet...

GE and Bosch announced Monday they are partnering to shape the connected world through a collaboration between the software divisions of both organizations, GE Digital and Bosch Software Innovations. The agreement focuses on technology interoperability and platform integration through GE’s...

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a global, public-private organization formed to accelerate adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced Monday the publication of the Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF), a common security framework that addresses security issues...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced Monday that it is convening meetings of a multistakeholder process concerning Internet of Things Security Upgradability and Patching. The initial meeting will be held in Austin, Texas, on October 19, 2016, NTIA...

Manufacturers, military personnel programmers could escape any liability in cases involving injuries or deaths caused by fully autonomous machines, or “killer robots,” according to a report by the Human Rights Watch. The report titled, “Mind the Gap: The Lack of Accountability for Killer Robots,”...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a $9.4 million grant to the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop new ways to monitor low-power, embedded IoT devices for malicious software, without affecting their operation. According to the researchers...

Several leading technology security experts have collaborated to create the Open Trust Protocol (OTrP) to combine a secure architecture with trusted code management, using technologies proven in large scale banking and sensitive data applications on mass-market devices such as...

76 percent of companies believe the IoT to be "critical" to future success, according to Vodafone’s fourth annual IoT Barometer Report which examines how organizations are really using IoT today. IoT has gone beyond being the latest buzz word in...

GE and Microsoft Corp. today announced a partnership that will make GE’s Predix platform for the Industrial Internet available on the Microsoft Azure cloud for industrial businesses. Azure will support the growth of the entire industrial IoT ecosystem by offering...

Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to surpass mobile phones as the largest category of connected devices in 2018, according to the 2016 Ericsson Mobility Report. IoT is expected to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23...

South Korea has launched its first commercial, low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) network. SK Telecom said they have concluded the nationwide deployment of Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) based on LoRa technology across the country. According to SK Telecom,...

Alibaba Group on Wednesday unveiled a new internet car for the China market aimed at expanding the internet-of-things (IoT) to the automotive sector. The company’s new OS’Car RX5 sport utility vehicle was built in partnership with SAIC Motor Corp., China’s...

In keeping with the current trend of high-profile partnerships in the IoT space, Intel Japan, Mitsubishi Electric and Hitachi have announced the approval of a factory automation platform as a service (FA PaaS) testbed to facilitate the integration of...

Dutch telecoms group KPN said Thursday that The Netherlands had become the first country in the world to implement a nationwide long range (LoRa) network for the so-called Internet of Things, reports Phys.Org. The Netherlands, which is about the same...

Intel and Samsung announced June 21 the formation of what they called the National IoT Strategy Dialogue, an initiative to convene like-minded industry partners and organizations to collaboratively develop strategic recommendations for U.S. policy makers on the Internet of...

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman & CEO Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon unveiled on June 21 Samsung’s vision for ‘Human-Centered IoT,’ including a strategy to spend $1.2 billion over 4 years for U.S.-based Internet of Things (IoT) R&D and investments. This will be...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Monday they will vote next month on a proposal to help identify and free up wireless spectrum at very high frequencies that could be used to power fifth-generation, or 5G, cellular networks.  FCC Chairman...

The U.S. Department of State has awarded IoT firm, C3 IoT, a multi-year contract up to $25 million to provide the C3 IoT enterprise application development platform, the company announced Monday. This is the Federal Government's first enterprise-wide contract to deploy energy...

Symantec, a cybersecurity solutions provider, today introduced Symantec Anomaly Detection for Automotive to protect against zero-day attacks and other issues facing modern connected vehicles. Leveraging Symantec’s security and analytics expertise across complex networks to the vehicle, Anomaly Detection for...

BullGuard, an internet security vendor, today announced what it called a “world first” with the launch of BullGuard IoT Scanner – a free tool for consumers that reveals connected devices that could be vulnerable to hackers. BullGuard IoT Scanner allows...

Cisco and IBM announced on June 2 a global collaboration to provide instant Internet of Things (IoT) insight at the edge of the network. This will allow businesses and organizations in remote and autonomous locations to tap the combined...

IOActive, an information security services firm, today released the findings of the IOActive Internet of Things (IoT) Security Survey which revealed that less than 10 percent of IoT devices are adequately secured. The IOActive IoT Security Survey, conducted in March...

Intel announced Thursday that it is buying Itseez, a Russian developer of computer vision algorithms and related technology for embedded systems. Itseez will become a key ingredient for Intel’s Internet of Things Group (IOTG) roadmap, and will help Intel’s customers...

Samsung Electronics announced today that it is collaborating with SK Telecom to build a nationwide network in South Korea to connect the intelligent devices required for the smart cities of the future.  The network, described by the company as the...

This research breakthrough provides fast and easy storage to capture the exponential growth of data from mobile devices and the Internet of Things. IBM announced Tuesday that its scientists have demonstrated reliably storing 3 bits of data per cell using...

Avista, a  provider of energy services and electricity to 375,000 customers and natural gas to 335,000 customers in eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and parts of southern and eastern Oregon, has picked Itron to modernize its electric and gas network...

Microsot announced yesterday that it has acquired Solair, an Italian company that  delivers Internet of Things (IoT) services to customers across a number of industries, including manufacturing, retail, food & beverage and transportation. With this acquisition, Microsoft aims to offer...

Researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in Samsung's Smart Home automation system which they could manipulate to carry out a host of remote attacks, including digitally picking connected door locks from anywhere in the world. This only highlights the dangers of...

66 percent of consumers are very worried about hacks and breaches against their IoT devices, and 72 percent do not know how to protect themselves from these risks, according to new research from BullGuard, an antimalware and mobile security...

A new interdisciplinary Research Hub to drive forward UK research in the Internet of Things (IoT) called PETRAS has been launched. The Hub is a consortium of nine leading universities led by UCL with Imperial College London, University of...

AT&T announced Monday that it has created a new report to share how businesses can best use the Internet of Things (IoT). The report provides data on how connected devices can help cut costs, grow revenues, boost efficiency and...

Wi-Fi solution, Wi-Fi Alliance today announced the Wi-Fi HaLow designation for products incorporating IEEE 802.11ah technology. Wi-Fi HaLow operates in frequency bands below one gigahertz, offering longer range, lower power connectivity to Wi-Fi certified products. The Alliance would like to...

RWE Effizienz GmbH, a provider of smart solutions for energy efficiency and electricity storage solutions, is currently seeking to make the Lemonbeat smart Device Language (LsDL) - its homegrown communications protocol for smart devices - the new international communications...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of Amazon IoT, a new service the company states will enable manufacturers, companies, artisans and other users build applications from any internet-connected device. The service was created to bridge the gap...

The global Internet of Things (IOT) in energy market is forecasted to grow from USD 7.59 Billion in 2015 to USD 22.34 Billion by 2020, according to a recent market research report published by MarketsandMarkets. This is at a...