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Daily IoT/Blockchain News from @surgethings - Aug 12, 2016
Daily IoT/Blockchain news from @surgethings.
The Internet of Things is the Great Equalizer for Startups
In the early stages of the IoT, many of today’s commonplace platforms were either nonexistent or extremely expensive. But now, companies with …
Dubai Opens Up an Accelerator for Blockchain Startups
The accelerator will support applications and projects built around smart cities, smart meters and blockchain technology. Dubai’s government seeks to …
Blockchain and Insurance: Partners in Crime?
According to PwC, 56% of financial firms recognise the importance of blockchain, but 57% do not know how to respond to the blockchain boom. A new …
Major firm launches full-fledged bitcoin practice
Steptoe & Johnson is launching a full-fledged, multidisciplinary blockchain practice to be headed by two veteran lawyers who are former US …
New IoT security risks identifed at DEF CON
… network infrastructure, phones and tablets, and even the tiny, embedded microcontrollers making up the so-called Internet of Things (IoT).
Blockai is a Blockchain Company With a Use
By using the blockchain, and providing downloadable software that allows you to pull the certificate from the blockchain on your own, Blockai largely …
81 FR 53125 - Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things Workshop
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action%3FgranuleId%3D2016-19048%26packageId%3DFR-2016-08-11%26acCode%3DFR%26collectionCode%3DFR&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzQ2MzEyMzAxNTQ5OTAxNDA2OTIaNTgyNWFhYTk5YmRkZDQ0ODpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHdKUB7GhAxxtHXe8jtGYpU2VZIxg Korea Internet of Things Forecast, 2016-2020 - AP40283516 Korea Internet of Things Ecosystem and Trends (Korean Version). Regions Covered. South Korea. Topics Covered. Analytic applications, Application …
Jim Rock Seegrid CEO Talks Future of VGVs in the Age of Industrial Internet
Press Release Rocket Jim Rock, Seegrid CEO, recently authored an article discussing the future of vision guided vehicles in the age of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Chain partners with US universities for ambitious industry-academia
EconoTimes Chain Inc, an enterprise software company that partners with leading financial firms to design and build blockchain networks, has partnered with the …
GNSS and the Internet of Medical Things
working together is in the Internet of Things (IoT) or, in this case, the …
Banks are scared of blockchain: Law experts
Blockchain the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin is grabbing the attention of banks, says a prominent local law firm.
NetComm passes technical milestone in US
NetComm Wireless is a developer of fixed wireless broadband, wireless machine-to-machine and fibre and cable to the distribution point technologies …
Japan must invest more actively in the Internet of Things to jack up
The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration) To effectively make use of the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects all kinds of devices via the internet, it is vital for the public and private sectors to …
90 pct believe blockchain technology to alter payment landscape by 2025 EPC
EconoTimes 36% respondents see impact of the technology in some niches or aspects of the payments activity, meaning adoption of blockchain technology for …
Stop talking ‘Internet of Things’ and deliver the experiences!
When people talk IoT they usually focus on the devices, how they connect to the Cloud and about the volumes of data. This is all really cool stuff from …
WEF took a year-long look at blockchain and concluded it will be the
Business Insider UK The World Economic Forum (WEF) has concluded that blockchain technology “will fundamentally alter the way financial institutions do business …
DealBook|Report Envisions Bitcoin’s Technology at the Heart of Global
New York Times The World Economic Forum’s report is one of the strongest endorsements yet for the blockchain, the underlying technology introduced by the virtual …
Europe Internet Of Things (IOT) Microcontrollers Sales
Sales, updated 2016-08-12 05:01:50. Watch for more news articles, …
Vodacom Tanzania launches service package for SMEs
The communication services include voice and data, mobile money, wireless connection, hosted services, machine-to-machine security, managed …
R3 tackles trade financing challenges with blockchain tech
Financial innovation company R3 and over 15 of its consortium member banks have completed two prototypes that demonstrate how distributed …
Computer scientists call for internet expansion to be limited
“The nature of internet use is changing and forms of growth, such as the Internet of Things, are more disconnected from human activity and time-use,” …
How Blockchain Could Make Robots Smarter
That’s one role for the blockchain proposed in a new white paper from MIT Media Lab research affiliate Eduardo Castell Ferrer. The eight-year …
Insurers to adopt robotic process, blockchain technologies
Indian insurers should adopt technologies like robotic process automation, blockchain technology, Internet of Things (IoT) and others to improve their …
New Boundary Technologies Connects with John Deere Operations Center
New Boundary Technologies (http://www.newboundary.com) has been pioneering innovative Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) …
Blockchain Will Become ‘Beating Heart’ of the Global Financial system
banks do business worldwide, lowering their operating costs, and making …
Blockchain to become ‘beating heart’ of financial system
Blockchain technology will fundamentally alter the way financial institutions do business, according to a report from the World Economic Forum.
The four key features of successful smart cities
To take the example of driverless cars, they need to speak to sensors to pick up information and allow machine-to-machine communication to take …
WEF: Blockchain to Form Foundation of New Financial Infrastructure
Released today, the 130-page report aims to provide a clear view of how financial services could be reimagined by combining blockchains and …
Australian firm Power Ledger tests blockchain for peer-to-peer solar
EconoTimes Perth-based company Power Ledger has announced that it will start testing a blockchain technology-based system that will allow people in Perth and …
PwC blockchain expert Ajit Tripathi pinpoints sources of ambiguity in smart
International Business Times UK With solid expertise in financial markets and technology, PwC’s Ajit Tripathi is part of a growing body of specialists examining the limits of automating …
Perth Startup Set to Begin Trials of P2P Energy Trading on the Blockchain
According to the founder of L03 Energy, blockchain’s impact could be much bigger than bitcoin, because it can record transactions that are designed …
Trinity College Dublin connects into LoRa global internet of things
Siliconrepublic.com … being deployed around the world to enable Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to- machine (M2M), and smart city, and industrial applications.
Ethereum Venture Claims Off-Blockchain First
While the FinTech industry is exploring the potential of blockchain technology, some are taking another path and exploring how another distributed …
Hyperledger Blockchain Project to Elect New Tech Committee
Election season has begun for the Hyperledger Project, the open-source, Linux Foundation-led blockchain initiative. The project is preparing to elect a …
Swirlds releases SDK for hashgraph distributed consensus platform
According to Swirlds, its software development platform goes beyond blockchain to build and run shared worldsfully distributed applications that …
The Netherlands’ Small (But Mighty) FinTech Scene
Willem Vermeend, the first official FinTech Ambassador of the Netherlands, and the Dutch Ministry of Finance said the blockchain will become a …
Concept 10 10 brings its new exercise approach to Gables
The upper age range is pretty much unlimited as long as the member is capable of getting from machine to machine. The first session is always free.
Why Banks Are Scared of Blockchain
Using the blockchain technology and its digital distributed ledger to confirm batches of transactions just as it does for bitcoin, it can take over functions …
The technology behind bitcoin could change global finance
Journalist Martin Wolf, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, British Finance Minister George Osborne, Indian …
How global money transfers will work in the future
Courtesy of WEF: How blockchain is going to become the beating heart of the global financial system, neatly summarised in two charts and a few …
The Internet of Things will always be vulnerable
The “Internet of Things”, also known as the “IoT”. A made up marketing buzzword now used to refer to anything and everything that can connect to the …
AVTV on Demand | How does the Internet of Things affect AV?
AV Magazine Editor Clive Couldwell talks to (from l-r) Michael Carter, Vice-President, Business Development & Marketing, The Clarient Group; Brad …
ISO and IEC approve OASIS consortium’s MQTT Internet of Things standard
The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have approved for release the …
Swipe: Star Wars Droid Controlled By The Mind
This week the Swipe team visited IBM’s research labs in Hampshire, where they tried out an Internet of Things project that allows a user wearing a …
Cramer: 16 Things I Am Watching Right Now
… build fiber optic networks at lower cost, while increasing network capacity substantially to meet the bandwidth drivers like Internet of Things. Strong …
ISO and IEC approve OASIS consortium’s MQTT Internet of Things standard
The MQTT classifies an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport protocol. MQTT is ideal for IoT applications where resources …
Lightning Fast Raiden Network Coming to Ethereum Blockchains
… as a millionth of a dollar, Hees hopes that it will find applications for the IoT, as well as for machine-to-machine and application-to-API transactions.
Echelon Reports Key New Hire Inducement Grant Under NASDAQ Listing Rules
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON), a leading independent control networking company for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), today reported …
The World Economic Forum’s bullish blockchain report is, naturally, quiet
Quartz The World Economic Forum published a report yesterday (Aug. 11) that is a ringing endorsement of blockchains, the technology underlying …
Lightning Fast Raiden Network Coming to Ethereum Blockchains
It is widely felt that in order to challenge traditional payment networks and assume a key role in the decentralized future of the internet, blockchains …
The 5 Best Stocks to Buy Now to Play the $6.5 Trillion Fintech Boom
Most of the action in fintech (a portmanteau of “financial technology”) is rooted in the blockchain, the technology that underpins the digital currency …
Lightning Fast Raiden Network Coming to Ethereum Blockchain
Today’s representative blockchain such as Bitcoin takes 10 min or longer to confirm transactions, achieves 7 transactions/sec maximum throughput, …
Startup Spotlight: NewSky Security looks to disrupt hackers before
GeekWire Explain what you do so our parents can understand it: Attackers are everywhere, anywhere and anytime in the age of mobile and Internet of Things.
ConnectedYard Wins Product of the Year Award From IoT Evolution for pHin
Business Wire (press release) PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ConnectedYard, an innovator in smart technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), has received a prestigious …
New Huawei Enterprise chief handicapped by politics, not products
Huawei’s strengths include competitive technology in all the hottest markets – cloud and internet of things (IoT) infrastructure and big data analytics, …
Blockchain Trials Accelerate as South America Sees Ethereum Uptake
ConsenSys blockchain specialist Daniel Novy tells CoinDesk he’s been surprised by how quickly his country has adopted a diverse set of ethereum …
New Report: World Economic Forum Says Blockchain Lives up to the Hype
Rather than to stay at the margins of the finance industry Blockchain will become the beating heart of it, the head of financial services industries at the …
DHS S&T Awards $1.3 Million to Small Businesses for Cyber Security Research
Newswise (press release) Applicability of Blockchain Technology to Identity Management and Privacy Protection: The goal of this topic is to use blockchain technology, which …
How Internet of Things can transform cars
With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), automobiles have the potential to become more than just means of transport. Imagine how much …
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