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Daily IoT/Blockchain News from @surgethings - Oct 26, 2016
Daily IoT/Blockchain news from @surgethings.
NSD and CSDC pen MoU with an eye on blockchain
Both parties have also agreed to cooperate in FinTech developments with a particular focus on the application of blockchain technology in the …
The Day of the Zombie Baby Monitors: When hackers weaponized the Internet
Washington Post The attack appears to be an unprecedented exploitation of the Internet of Things, a term that includes more and more devices that offer user …
SMEs can benefit from riding the wave of Internet of Things (IoT)
IoT powers machine-to-machine automation and generates big data, which help businesses optimise processes automatically, minimizing waste.
Take Back Stock and Share Voting with Blockchain Tech, Says Delaware Judge
In a highly symbolical moment indicating the realization across the world of blockchain’s potential to create more equitable and efficient trading …
ABBA Logic Selects Echelon Corp. Embedded Industrial Internet of Things
Yahoo Finance Echelon Corporation (ELON) today announced that ABBA Logic, a supplier to security integrators, has introduced a revolutionary upgrade to its line of …
SMEs can benefit from riding the wave of Internet of Things (IoT)
Even if some of us are still strangers to the acronym “IoT,” we may already have experienced the start of the ongoing IoT revolution. IoT is at work when …
The Blockchain Created By Ethereum’s Fork is Forking Now
A blockchain that was born out of the rejection of a contentious technical change is on the cusp of making a decision some argue contradicts its core …
Intel’s new chips are for smart cars and the Internet of Things
Intel has been investing in IoT for years, playing catch up to compete with companies like Qualcomm that got to the market early and saturated it with …
Malaysia Well on Its Internet of Things Journey through Its Open Innovation
The launch of this Internet of Things (IoT) Open Innovation Platform is in line with Malaysia’s focus on transitioning from a manufacturing-based to an …
Money 20⁄20 recap: Jack Dorsey, blockchain, and the future of financial
VentureBeat In the financial services industry, blockchain looms as a large but distant and somewhat mysterious presence. A few forward-thinking bankers take it …
Here’s who’s leading VC prospecting in Internet of Things startups
SILICON VALLEY Friday’s massive Web attack put a spotlight on the Internet of Things, with its burgeoning army of connected devices that go far …
Vodafone positioned as a Leader by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for
Vodafone has been named by Gartner as a worldwide Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Managed Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Services, Worldwide* …
A New Major Contribution From Eurotech, With the Support of Red Hat, Leads
PR Newswire (press release) AMARO, Italy, Oct. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – Eurotech, a leading provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platforms and Internet of Things (IoT) …
South Korea plans national digital currency using a Blockchain
At Monday’s 12th annual FinTech Demo Day in Seoul, the chairman of South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), Yim Jong-yong, …
GE’s cloud to power EY’s industrial internet of things
Consultancy EY is betting big on industrial internet of things (IoT) in India through its partnership with General Electric, which will help companies …
Meet the Nightmare Machine, AI’s discovery of our deepest fears
It was only a matter of time before computers started honing in on humanity’s deepest fears of darkness, fire, war and aliens. Researchers at MIT have …
Blockchain platform Lisk announces new COO and call for new talent rolls
EconoTimes Lisk, the blockchain application platform, has announced the appointment of a new Chief Operating Officer, along with a ramped up call for developers …
Only Permissioned Blockchains Can Transform Finance, Says Chain’s Ludwin
Who really understands what a blockchain is? Could you explain it to your mother? Chain CEO Adam Ludwin got down to fundamentals yesterday, …
Microsoft sets its sights on Internet of Things growth in Asia with Taiwan
The Drum Microsoft has launched its first Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Center in Taiwan, a statement of intent that it views Asia to be a key growth area for …
TU Delft and ABN AMRO to collaborate on the development of blockchain
TU Delft is set to collaborate with ABN AMRO on the development of more complex blockchain applications. The aim is to deliver a secure, working …
Randall’s blockchain to power post-trade FX platform
The blockchain startup led by one of the founders of the European exchange Chi-X has struck an early partnership in the $5.1 trillion-a-day foreign …
Unregulated ‘internet of things’ industry puts us all at risk, security
CBC.ca Last Friday’s massive cyberattacks should serve as a “wake-up call” and a warning to consumers that smart devices designed to make our lives more …
The IoT market will grow through cannibalisation, says Tech Mahindra
It grew out of the company’s previous work on machine-to-machine (M2M) instrumentation in the US, which came to a head after the 2014 New Jersey …
IoT drives new data centre architectures
Kathy Gibson reports from Infracom 2016 The digital world is impacting on the data centre, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is making infrastructure …
Synereo Raised Over $4.7m for Decentralized Computation Blockchain
Synereo, a company developing a decentralized tech stack (allowing web applications to exist without centralized servers) got a major boost lately for …
First came banks, now come IT companies, then comes widespread blockchain
JAXenter A few months ago, the World Economic Forum claimed in a report that blockchain can become the future of FinTech. After a plethora of banks decided …
Senator Wants to Classify Insecure Internet of Things Devices As ‘Harmful’
The Senator warned of the dangers the internet is facing due to the seemingly unstoppable proliferation of Internet of Things devices in a letter he sent …
Latin America: A hotbed for the Internet of Things
looks at the Latin American Internet of Things landscape.
ConsenSys, Synechron and BlockApps collaborate on Financial Services
Yahoo Sports Synechron, Inc., a global consulting and technology services provider specializing in the financial services market, has today announced a blockchain …
Funderbeam to Build Blockchain-based Stock Exchange for Startups, Raises $
CoinTelegraph London-based Blockchain company Funderbeam announced that they will be building a Blockchain-based stock exchange specifically for startups …
Internet of things: Just what the doctor ordered?
This is just one example of the potential benefits of the internet of things coming to healthcare. Across the world, pharmaceutical companies are now …
Microchip Launches Its First Sigfox FCC-certified Long-Range RF Transceiver
PR Newswire (press release) This is ideal for IoT applications in the US, ranging from logistics, to agriculture, smart cities and other Machine-to-Machine (M2M) sectors.
5 things to know about blockchain technology
As more organizations contemplate blockchain technology’s place in higher education, discussions around its potential are growing, especially as …
ABN Amro Partners with Dutch University on Blockchain Projects
A prominent bank in the Netherlands is working with a local university to develop a series of blockchain prototypes. ABN Amro, which is a member of …
Jaxx Blockchain Wallet Announces Plan to Integrate Zcash
Zcash is a new technology that lets you put encrypted data into a blockchain. Blockchains as they currently exist, don’t offer much (or any) control over …
Korea’s Fourth Largest Bank Tests Blockchain With Coinplug; Eyes Commercial
Apart from its blockchain services, Coinplug is also the only startup in South Korea to provide unique bitcoin trading methods to local consumers.
IoT Growing Faster Than the Ability to Defend It
With this year’s approaching holiday gift season the rapidly growing Internet of Things or IoTwhich was exploited to help shut down parts of the …
Blockchain for President: How It Can Disrupt US Voting Machine
This juggernaut is in the process of being disrupted by Ripple Labs, one of the world’s most innovative, and most successful, Blockchain companies.
Australia to lead development of international blockchain standards
The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has appointed Standards Australia to lead the development of international blockchain …
SETL partners Cobalt DL to put a blockchain into FX
London blockchain firm SETL has partnered with peer-to-peer network provider Cobalt DL to implement its SETL OpenCSD system with Cobalt’s FX …
Who’s in charge of regulating the Internet of Things?
Pressure is growing on federal regulators and homeland security officials to offer some reassurance to the public about the security of the internet of …
OKWU to unveil new range of IoT-ready smartphones
OKWU smartphones are android-based phone, which enhances machine-to-machine interactions. It features apps that communicate with other …
Qubit Unveils New Machine Learning Engine to Automatically Uncover Revenue
SYS-CON Media (press release) Qubit, the pioneer in delivering context-driven customer experiences, announces the deployment of its machine learning engine as part of its …
Swift Fights to Stay Relevant in A Blockchain World
With a blockchain, the potential exists for all of Swift’s members to someday send each other money instantly, instead of several days it can currently …
PayStand Introduces First-Ever Blockchain Certification of Payments
PayStand customers can now certify and notarize payments (from request to receipt) on the blockchain, ensuring the history of payments is secure, …
How Ready Are Indian Banks For Blockchain Adoption?
Blockchain technology underlying the ‘Bitcoin’ crypto currency has created lot of buzz in the technology landscape compared to any other technology …
Erasing anonymity: How to prevent hacking with blockchain - #ibmwow
The threat of anonymity is eliminated with blockchain, a technology that serves as the public ledger for financial transactions. To hack such a system, …
BRIEF-Honeywell and Flowserve collaborate on industrial internet of
Reuters Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing …
Bosch to deploy own cloud for IoT services soon
BENGALURU: Bosch today said it will deploy its own cloud for the Internet of Things (IoT) within weeks for augmenting revenues. “Bosch will deploy its …
Blockchain Startups Collaborate to Support Currency Trading
Two London-based start-ups have joined forces on a platform to process currency trades with blockchain technology, in an effort to cut settlement …
Visa Partners with Chain on Blockchain-Based Money Transfer Network
Visa has rolled out VisaB2B, which uses blockchain technology developed in partnership with Chain Inc., challenging the SWIFT messaging network …
Israeli Blockchain Startup Synereo Raised Over $4.7m in Fundraise
The recently concluded funding campaign was launched shortly after Synereo announced its Blockchain 2.0 architecture, called RChain, which lies at …
DDoS And 3 Recommendations To Secure The Internet Of Things (IoT)
And so it begins. Last week we experienced the first security attack publicly and widely attribute to the Internet of Things (IoT). This day has been a …
Mirai Botnet Rattles Confidence in the Internet of Things - XRX UBNT
Only devices connected to the wider Internet could have been made part of the botnet. Most of the connections use the machine-to-machine protocol …
Major banks open to exploring blockchain but majority hesitant to fully
International Business Times UK A new blockchain study released by global constultancy firm Accenture indicates that major commercial banks across the US, Europe and Canada are …
Jaxx Blockchain Wallet to Integrate Zcash
Canadian Blockchain company Decentral, creators of the universal Blockchain wallet Jaxx, today announced plans to integrate Zcash into its entire …
Chain Releases Open Source Blockchain Solution for Banks
Chain, a San Francisco-based Blockchain startup, launched the Chain Core Developer Edition, which is a distributed ledger infrastructure built for …
SETL blockchain powers Cobalt’s FX post trade
London-based blockchain firm SETL and Cobalt DL, a private peer-to-peer network, have teamed up to use SETL’s OpenCSD within the Cobalt FX …
Blockchain Wave Headed Toward CPG and Retail industries
retailers and consumer goods companies.
The Internet of Things gives hackers an attack path
E-commerce sales by region, sales by product category, holiday data, online spending by shopper and as percentage of household income, and more …
Intel announces Internet of Things-enabled Atom E3900 processor series
Intel has announced its new E3900 series Atom processors that will support Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The E3900 series will have Intel’s …
EIT Digital’s new Internet of Things security course
‘Web Connectivity and Security in Embedded Systems’ course is the …
Gem Partners With Capital One for Blockchain-Based Health Care Claims
Bitcoin Magazine Blockchain company Gem aims to tackle one of the biggest issues in health care insurance claim payments: providers have to wait a long time to get …
Visa makes payment on digital bets checkout, ad tech and blockchain B2b
Visa makes payment on digital bets checkout, ad tech and blockchain … facilitates financial transactions on scalable, private blockchain networks.
NI, IBM and SparkCognition collaborate for Industrial Internet of Things
Bangalore: NI, a provider of platform-based systems today said SparkCognition is partnering with NI and IBM to collaborate on the Condition …
Internet of Things will create new risks and business for reinsurers
While the increasing deployment of technology and the availability of data are set to reduce the risks for primary insurers, new risks are likely to …
Walt Disney releases public-private hybrid blockchain Dragonchain
In this architecture, proof will be abstracted and may be implemented in one or more ways for a given blockchain. For some uses, one may desire to …
The Internet of Things Is Taking Over Cities
When a slew of websites couldn’t be reached last week, suddenly people across the US started paying attention to the Internet of Things. It turns out …
Internet of Things Devices and Their Security Vulnerabilities
Recently, we came across an article CNET wrote about how IP cameras and other Internet of Things devices can easily be hacked and wanted to …
Blockchain Explored by 90% of Major North American and European Banks,
CryptoCoinsNews A survey conducted by professional services firm Accenture has revealed that nine out of 10 major U.S., Canadian and European banks are currently …
Walmart Is Hoping a Blockchain Can Clean Up China’s Dirty Pork Industry
The company is partnering with IBM and a local university to develop a pilot program using blockchain technology to track the country’s pork supply for …
Can anyone keep us safe from a weaponized ‘Internet of Things?’
It will be hard if not impossible to stop hackers from weaponizing the Internet of Things anytime soon. That’s what some experts are warning in …
Cyberattacks could shine light on Chicago startup
Cisco, the Silicon Valley networking giant, expects that the number of machine-to-machine connections will more than double from 4.9 billion to 12.2 …
Internet of Things (IoT) Has Cybersecurity Impact
See Attack reveals new vulnerabilities in nation’s ‘Internet of things’. There has been a first wave of devices connected to the Internet: home security …
Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of a Smarter Internet
What about the Internet of Things? The internet of things is an automated network that allows for the free exchange of information and data amongst …
How the internet of things enable cyberattacks
Internet and making life and business easier and more convenient than ever.
Now’s Your Chance to Crowdfund a Blockchain Nation in Honduras
When people hear we are going to create an independent state using blockchain technology they are amazed, said founder of Bit Bastion, Crypto …
Blockchain start-ups launch FX post-trade tool
Blockchain specialists SETL and Cobalt DL have teamed up to produce a post-trade tool for foreign exchange, with 15 leading institutional FX …
Energy management: Integrate performance analytics with Internet of Things
Utility Products Energy management: Infiswift, an enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform leader, has acquired Smart Resource Labs (SRL), a provider of technical …
Microsoft Supercharges Its Azure IoT Suite With New Upgrades, Capabilities
CRN Microsoft is doubling down on its Azure Internet of Things Suite, introducing Wednesday a new set of connected capabilities for partners to tap into …
CalAmp to Host Investor Relations Webcast Tutorial: LoJack-Branded LotSmart
PR Newswire (press release) … and targeted software applications streamline otherwise complex Machine-to-Machine (M2M) deployments. These solutions enable customers to …
The government is trying to catch up on IoT security policy
The ballooning security problems presented by the burgeoning Internet of Things phenomenon need to be addressed as quickly as possible, but the …
The Internet of Things Ecosystem is Broken. How Do We Fix It?
provider Dyn should serve as a wake-up call: the Internet of Things …
ABN Amro explores blockchain with Dutch university
ABN Amro is teaming up with Dutch university TU Delft to develop what it calls “more complex” blockchain applications that can deal with large …
Virtual Reality vs. the Internet of Things: Which Tech Trend Has More
Madison.com For investors looking to cash in on the next big thing, virtual reality (VR) and the Internet of Things (IoT) may be of particular interest. Both markets are …
Why Is Everyone Freaking Out Over a Little Internet Outage?
Mirai searches the web for easily hackable Internet of Things (IoT) devices still set to factory default usernames and passwords and turns them into a …
Safran Identity & Security to Expand to the Silicon Valley
“Being at the forefront of biometrics, digital identity and security technologies, it was the next logical next step for us to become a part of the vibrant …
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