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Daily IoT/Blockchain News from @surgethings - Sep 6, 2016
Daily IoT/Blockchain news from @surgethings.
The Internet Of Things Is Literally In The Sea
The Internet of Things is in the sea. More specifically, it’s in an Oyster farm in Hobart. And we have The Yield, Microsoft, Bosch and Intel to thank.
China’s US$285B social security funds will soon be using blockchain tech
China’s National Council for Social Security Funds is adopting blockchain tech for the first time to keep down transaction costs. Blockchain technology …
IoT Takes Brands Beyond Screens By Using Sound, Touch, Says Agency Exec
A s the Internet of Things takes communication beyond visual interaction, voice may end up being only one component of that. The IoT Daily caught up …
SP Jain School of high technology launched in Kurla
Skills such as machine learning, virtual reality, Internet of Things and cybersecurity, to name a few, have become critical to both business and personal …
BTL Group and Visa Europe Collab Start Blockchain Financial Services
AllCoinsNews.com (blog) The project will use Interbit, BTL’s cross-border settlement platform, to explore the ways in which a blockchain-based settlements can reduce cost, …
Internet map shows big variations in broadband consumption
“Then there is the ‘internet of things’ that will connect myriad devices from home security cameras and fridges to Fitbits, heatpumps and coffee …
BNC launches finance data Oracles, to expand the usefulness of
Brave New Coin According to Jerry Cuomo, vice president for blockchain technologies at IBM, smart contracts will be useful across industries, from financial services to …
How the Internet of Things will change our lives
we are starting to see its incredible impact, we are still very much at the …
IoT LoRaWAN network goes live in Sydney
… band to support low-power, low-duty cycle communications for various IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) services, along with mobile broadband.
Spark’s Lightbox boss Kym Niblock to step down
Spark’s ventures unit, which had previously housed Lightbox, is starting a new round of investments focusing on big data and machine-to-machine …
Krypton ditches Ethereum for bitcoin proof-of-stake blockchain
New smart contract and distributed apps platform Krypton has announced that it is abandoning Ethereum-based blockchain after 51% attack.
How the Internet of Things is Protecting Our Plates
Sure, opening up a long-established business to the Internet of Things might sound a little overwhelming. But by embracing new connected systems …
Automated Purchasing Coming: 57% Ready For It In 2 Years, 13% OK With It
MediaPost Communications P art of the appeal of the Internet of Things is that it will make some things easier for consumers. Some of that convenience will come in the form of …
Ujo Music to launch blockchain-based full commercial music platform
Ujo Music, that allows artists to own and control their creative content, has intended to use blockchain technology in order to launch a full commercial …
ABB appoints Guido Jouret as Chief Digital Officer
ABB has appointed Guido Jouret, a pioneer of the Internet of Things, as Chief Digital Officer, reporting to ABB’s CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer, effective …
Nokia at CTIA: path to 5G will take next step through 4.5G Pro
With 5G promising to deliver extreme mobile broadband and large-scale critical machine-to-machine communication for a diversity of industries, …
Goldman Sachs Steps In Blockchain: SETLcoin
The Goldman Sachs Group has filed a patent for a cryptographic currency technology, aiming for a faster, cheaper and safer settlement process when …
Blockchain Revolution and Financial Regulation in South Africa
BlockChain is an aspect of FinTech that will allow people to cut out the middleman and the associated cost. It is a type of peer-to-peer ledger system.
BearingPoint and GE Digital combine to provide Industrial Internet of
Consultancy.uk The Industrial Internet of Things has the potential to dramatically improve processes on the factory floor, by integrating horizontal and vertical supply …
Softbank Acquires ARM In One Of The Biggest Tech Deals Of The Year
… low-power processors will be used as well in various electronic applications powering the Internet of Things market. SoftBank has consolidated its …
Olli: Artificial Intelligence for the real world, in record time
take passengers to requested destinations, provide recommendations on …
Blockchain and its application in IoT
has been said of Blockchain. The two should not be confused.
How 50B Connected Machines Will Transform the Future
Thanks to the Internet of Things, today’s developers are riding a big wave of innovation. For the now 15 billion connected devices out there in the world …
Deliver the right data to the cloud for deeper analysis with new edge
The Watson IoT Platform Analytics team has been hard at work on a new feature enabling analytics at the edge of the network. We announced the …
Blockchain and why the financial sector is all excited about it
Repurposing Bitcoin technology: Blockchain, the basis of Bitcoin, is creating a lot of buzz in the financial world. AFP …
Blockchain fundraising company Alice SI receives funding from Bethnal Green
EconoTimes Alice SI, a blockchain based startup that helps charities raise funds, has been added by technology accelerator program Bethnal Green Ventures in …
CityVerve: Is It Time For A Smarter Manchester?
July saw the official launch of CityVerve, the UK’s demonstrator project in Manchester for large-scale deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) technology.
Verizon and Qualcomm double down on the Internet of Things
“When it comes to the Internet of Things, no single company can go at it alone in order to scale from the millions of devices to the billions of devices …
Stadium Group’s design focus paying off
Here the company is working in the fast-growing machine-to-machine sector. Chairman Nick Brayshaw said: “The half-year results show continued …
Nelson 13 Sep 2016 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
Businesses and Government connect and use bigger data to enhance their …
BTC combines paper ballots and blockchain technology for new voting
EconoTimes Blockchain Technologies Corp. (BTC), a New York-based blockchain and cryptocurrency software technology company and startup accelerator, has …
Digi International Honored as Silver Winner in the 8th Annual 2016 Golden
PR Newswire (press release) 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – Digi International, (NASDAQ: DGII, www.digi.com), a leading global provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of …
Why the food and beverage industry needs to start using Internet of Things
Food Dive Food that knows if it’s spoiled. Machines that know if they’re about to break. An inventory that regulates itself. It’s not a crazy vision of the future.
4G will not ‘evolve’ into 5G, economics firm says
Bets are on extremely high frequenciespretty much what’s vacant in the spectrumand the Internet of Things (IoT) will play a part in driving 5G.
Telit Announces Major Updates to IoT Portal
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced major updates to their IoT Portal. Now, users …
Will LTE Lead the Machine-to-Machine Market After 2021?
According to a recent research report published by research and advisory firm, Ovum, the cellular mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are …
Microsoft Azure’s CTO Wants Blockchain to Connect Every Industry
Mark Russinovich envisions a world where every industry is involved in a blockchain consortium. In fact, since the network effect of a blockchain is …
Clearvoter Founder, Rosa Shores Discusses Blockchain Technology For
CoinJournal (blog) Clearvoter will soon launch in beta as yet another example of how blockchain technology can be leveraged to provide greater freedom globally …
Synereo Discloses What Powers Its Ambitious Social Network Project
Israeli startup Synereo today disclosed the underlying Blockchain Technology Stack which powers its decentralized social network. RChain, as the …
How Pernod Ricard is using the Internet of Things to bring ‘the product,
Marketing Week Pernod Ricard says the Internet of Things will play an increasingly important role for the business, as it looks to create more experiences around its …
Digi International Honored as Silver Winner in the 8th Annual 2016 Golden
PR Newswire (press release) Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) is a leading global provider of business and mission-critical machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) …
Digi International to Present at Liolios 5th Annual Gateway Conference on
PR Newswire (press release) 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – Digi International, (NASDAQ: DGII, www.digi.com), a leading global provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT …
Secure Voting Solution Unites Bitcoin Blockchain and Paper Ballots
Bitcoin ATM-developer and blockchain-tech firm Blockchain Technologies Corp (BTC) has revealed that it is developing a tamper-resistant voting …
Aricent Rated in the Leadership Zone for Internet of Things Technology
MarketWatch The Zinnov Zones 2016 - Internet of Things Technology Services study analyzed the Global IoT market and trends from the perspective of both …
Raritan and Legrand Data Center Infrastructure Experts to Speak on Internet
PR Newswire (press release) SOMERSET, N.J., Sept. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – Raritan, a leading provider of intelligent data center management and rack power distribution …
Aeris Publishes Book On Internet Of Things
aeris_m2m Internet of things firm Aeris Tuesday said it has releassed the second edition of its popular IoT eBook, The Definitive Guide: The Internet of …
SoftBank completes 24 billion pound acquisition of ARM holdings to boost
Gizmodo India In a bid to make an early in the Internet of Things segment, SoftBank Group, the Japanese software giant has completed the acquisition of ARM …
Qualcomm says India can scale IoT like no other country, predicts 15
Digit It is quite apparent that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big push for mobile chipset-maker Qualcomm. The American semiconductor company …
Industry 4.0 and mining: keeping technology at the heart of the matter
Telstra Telecom is investing in machine to machine connectivity in order to improve technical input. This investment is just one example of how …
AT&T to test drones on LTE with Qualcomm
… internet of things solutions. Solving for the connectivity challenges of complex flight operations is an essential first step to enabling how drones will …
Intel Buys Movidius to Grow Computer Vision Capabilities
Intel is expanding its capabilities in virtual reality, artificial intelligence and the internet of things with the planned acquisition of Movidius, whose …
Six Startups to Join EY Blockchain Initiative
Six startups will contest a challenge laid down by accounting giant EY, to develop blockchain solutions for energy trading and digital rights …
China’s Social Security Chairman Open to Blockchain Integration
China’s state social security system is reportedly looking into how it could leverage blockchain technology. According to state-run newspaper China …
China cooperation a ‘win-win,’ according to ASE chief Wu
… a pivotal role in next-generation innovations, such as drones, electric cars, smart city, the internet of things and machine-to-machine communication.
6 Blockchain Startups Accept New Ernst & Young ‘Challenge’
Ernst & Young has announced six startups will participate in its first-ever startup contest focused exclusively on blockchain. Over a six-week period …
Musings on the Internet of Things: I Am Now a ‘Thing’ - @ThingsExpo #IoT
SYS-CON Media (press release) As many of you who have read my articles and posts the last few years already know, medical devices in the Internet of Things is topic that is near and …
South America’s Biggest Stock Exchange Joins R3 Blockchain Consortium
BM&F Bovespa, based in Brazil, announced today that it is now part of the effort, launched last September. The news comes as more financial …
From antiquated processes to the fourth industrial revolution
Now, the Internet of Things (IoT) is FE Birst blog author ushering in the fourth industrial revolution. To remain competitive in this new global economy, …
Softbank’s bid for Arm now a done deal
The purchase was first announced in July and is part of Softbank’s push to expand its presence in the burgeoning internet of things, or IoT, market.
Musings on the Internet of Things: I am now a ‘Thing’
should explain. As many of you who have read my articles and posts the last few …
Verizon, Qualcomm extend partnership to aid IoT deployments
One such commitment took place in 2009, where Verizon and Qualcomm paired to offer machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communications and …
Northland Securities announced (NASDAQ:MIFI) Novatel Wireless Inc, upping
Breaking Finance News … universal serial bus (USB) modems, embedded modules, integrated asset-management and mobile tracking machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, …
Synereo Unveils Tech Behind Its Decentralized Web
The purported advantage of RChain over existing blockchains is twofold, which Synereo says makes it cheaper, faster and much more scalable.
The five must-knows of blockchain in financial services
here are the five things you must know about blockchain in financial …
Verizon Is Teaming With Qualcomm to Push Smart Devices
The goal is to capture a growing share of the market from the Internet of things movement. Verizon faces competition not just from other major carriers …
Highlighting Electronics for the Internet of Things Era and Wearable and
Reminder Paper Submissions at ww.date-conference.com/submission-instructions. Deadline Paper Submission: 11 September, 2016. We would like …
Mobile ERP: A 2-Way Experience That Provides Real Manufacturing
CIO It’s a two-way experience where machine-to-machine communication is as relevant as human communicationto provide real manufacturing …
Top 10 industrial IoT cloud providers
The AWS IoT Device SDK enables devices to connect, authenticate and exchange messages with AWS IoT using the MQTT, HTTP or WebSockets …
R3 Blockchain Consortium Welcome BM&FBovespa As Its Latest Member
The R3 blockchain consortium has been adding a lot of new members as of late. The demand for their distributed ledger research services continues …
How the Internet of Things Can Give Smaller Businesses an Edge
INEX Advisors’ IoT Impact Labs are working to show the significant impact the internet of things can have on SMBs. Here are examples of how the IoT …
Sandia Labs to Enable Homeland Track Bitcoin Transactions
Sandia National Laboratories is working on a blockchain analysis tool that allows law enforcement agencies to track and crack down on illegal Bitcoin …
AT&T powers a bike as smart as your phone
… how connectivity can change how we work and play,” Chris Penrose, AT&T’s senior vice president of Internet of Things Solutions said in a statement.
Qualcomm and Verizon Double Down on the Internet of Things
Verizon are leading an effort to drive innovation, productivity and value for …
LTE to Dominate M2M After 2012, Finds Ovum
LONDON – Ovum’s latest forecasts show that cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections (not including NB-IoT) will reach 733 million globally by …
The Stolen DAO Funds Are On the Move
Identified via an analysis of the ethereum classic blockchain, the finding comes courtesy of data analyst Bok Khoo. Founder of New Zealand-based …
Verizon Will Team With Qualcomm to Advance Internet of Things
NEW YORK Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced a new Internet of Things partnership that will see the wireless …
INEX Aims To Amortize Industrial IoT R&D At The Edge Of Small Business
INEX Advisors, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has created an innovative approach to making the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) work for small …
Stay Connected with the Engager Directional LPDA Antenna Series
6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – Taoglas (www.taoglas.com), the leading provider of IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M (Machine to Machine) antenna …
Funding woes threaten a unique gym in Florence
… where staff from ServiceNet, a behavioral health agency, guide her from machine to machine, ensuring that her workout is both comfortable and safe …
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