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Daily IoT/Blockchain News from @surgethings - Nov 4, 2016
Daily IoT/Blockchain news from @surgethings.
IBM Trials Blockchain For Supply Chain Dispute Resolution
Bitcoin showed IBM’s Jerry Cuomo what blockchain could do, but anonymous ledgers didn’t meet the needs of the company’s largest enterprise …
KT, LG Uplus Join Hands to Commercialize Internet of Things
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s second- and third-largest mobile carriers, unveiled a deal Thursday to …
Canonical Focuses On IoT Security With Ubuntu Core 16
It has become apparent that Internet of Things devices need a major security upgrade. Most of these changes need to be made at the software level, …
IU researching cybersecurity for internet of things
The privacy issues in an internet of things environment are numerous, Camp said in a statement. It creates a world where many people may interact …
The connected devices report: market opportunities, top stakeholders, and
Business Insider Australia The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) offers payments companies an opportunity to expand beyond mobile phones, cards, and …
Short Interest: Could Iridium Communications Incorporated (NASDAQ:IRDM)
Post News The Company’s lines of business include land mobile, machine to machine, maritime, aviation and government. Insitutional Activity: The institutional …
Blockchain Not as easy as we thought
After a period of explosive growth in public awareness over the last 12 months regarding blockchain technology, reality has rudely intruded into the …
FBI: New Malware to Spur More Large-Scale Cyber Attacks
The exploitation of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IOT) to conduct small-to-large scale attacks on the private industry will very likely continue due to the open …
Expanse Project [EXP] Announces Blockchain-Based Voting Platform Prototype
PR Newswire (press release) 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – The Expanse Project, Borderless.tech, announces the development of a new blockchain-based voting platform with the …
R3 blockchain consortium welcomes China Foreign Exchange Trade System
Financial industry leaders, blockchain and cryptocurrency experts of the R3 team will collaborate with the members of the consortium on research, …
Orbcomm Inc. (ORBC) Director Jerome B. Eisenberg Sells 5000 Shares
ORBCOMM Inc is a provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, including network connectivity, devices and Web reporting applications.
Blockchain platform DECENT releases web application prototype
The prototype will showcase the works of DECENT platform before blockchain storage is activated next year. The platform has already raised more …
Industrial Internet Consortium Signs Memorandum of Understanding with IoT
Business Wire (press release) … Internet Consortium (IIC) is a global, member supported, organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things by …
Bringing the Internet of Things to Business
lives across the globe by making our homes and buildings more efficient, …
Thailand’s Kasikornbank and IBM team up to develop blockchain services
BANGKOK: Thailand’s Kasikornbank Pcl has joined with the Thai unit of International Business Machines Corp to develop blockchain services in a bid …
ABN AMRO joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
ABN AMRO , the Dutch state-owned bank that serves retail, private and corporate banking clients, has announced that it has joined R3 blockchain …
Making Laws For The Internet Of Things (Part 2)
Under the reference article released by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), the National Telecom M2M Roadmap, machine to machine …
How to Save the Environment - and Money - Using the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) as a concept is not new, but while our phones and our televisions got smarter over the last few years, our homes haven’t …
$1.4bn investment in blockchain start-ups in last 9 months, says PwC expert
Financial institutions have moved from discovery to experimentation with blockchain said PwC Fintech director EMEA Seamus Cushley. Image source: …
Making Laws For The Internet Of Things (Part 2)
However M2M along with the technology that enables it, the Internet of Things (IoT) can only be adopted by the various industries only if policymakers …
IoT security needs rethink - Intel Security
The security industry must think differently about how it is approaching the Internet of Things (IoT), Steve Grobman, Intel fellow and CTO of Intel …
Komodo, A Secure Crypto-Platform for Blockchain Products and Solutions
Komodo Platform is a unique cryptocurrency ecosystem built on ZCash fork. ZCash, aka ZeroCash, is a cryptocurrency built on Bitcoin Core code base …
Blockchain: Skuchain says ‘collaborative commerce’ will revolutionise
International Business Times UK Srinivasan Sriram, CEO of Skuchain, begins a series of interviews about his vision for the future of supply chains. Ian Allison. By Ian Allison. November …
Internet of Things botnet threatens to knock the entire country of Liberia
Boing Boing The various Mirai botnets, which use “clumsy, amateurish code to take over even more clumsy and amateurish CCTVs, routers, PVRs and other …
Why Marijuana Growers Are Racing to Register Their Strains on the Bitcoin
CryptoCoinsNews Medicinal Genomics, which registers marijuana strains on the blockchain, has set off a race among growers to sequence and register their strains, …
Thai Kasikornbank, IBM join forces on blockchain network
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand’s Kasikornbank Pcl has joined with the Thai unit of International Business Machines Corp to develop blockchain …
Trader Alert: VimpelCom Ltd. (VIP), Square, Inc. (SQ), Callon Petroleum
iStreetWire … and offers other data services, such as machine-to-machine, mobile virtual private network, geo-positioning services, fixed mobile convergence, and …
Cognitive computing systems a natural fit for IoT devices
The internet of things is more than just a data source for analytics. Powered by cognitive computing platforms, it can turn devices into conversant tools.
How the Mirai botnet almost took down an entire country, and what your
TechRepublic “With the availability of cheap and easy-to-build Botnets using Internet of Things devices, DDoS attacks will increase and have significant impacts on …
Blockchain Workshops Round 1 (East Coast)
Ledgers. A workshop examining the interplay between blockchain …
Some serverless cloud myths debunked by DevOps creator
It is particularly well suited to event-driven processing, as is typical in the machine-to-machine and IoT space, but the bank CapitalOne is using it to …
Bayshore Networks® Receives Strategic Equity Investment from Yokogawa
BETHESDA, MD–(Marketwired - November 04, 2016) - Bayshore Networks, the cybersecurity leader for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), today …
ICOs and Appcoins: A Blockchain VC’s View
Travis Scher is a bitcoin and blockchain investor at Digital Currency Group, and a former attorney working on M&A and corporate finance transactions.
Beyond the Void Creates a Blockchain Game Economy with Nexium Blockchain
newsBTC In the case of Beyond the Void, it is using a custom Ethereum smart contract backed by Nexium crypto tokens to create a blockchain-based economy …
BBB Tip of The Month; Internet of Things
Its already time to talk about Christmas lists, but just when you get all excited about a great new electronic device we realize they may be coming from …
Novatel Wireless Announces Inseego Corp. as Name of New Holding Company
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Novatel Wireless, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIFI), a leading global provider of solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), including …
Overstock Secures New Partnership For Blockchain Stock Sale
In March, the e-commerce giant said that it would issue its own stock via blockchain, utilizing its t blockchain platform to facilitate trades. During an …
Blockchain: RBS builds Ethereum-based distributed clearing house
Richard Crook, head of Innovation Engineering at RBS talks about a cross border payment system using distributed ledger technology. Ian Allison.
IoT powerhouse launches $5 million program to create smart cities in remote
StartupSmart An Internet of Things (IoT) powerhouse is launching a $5 million program to get 50 Australian councils connected to a network that will ignite new life …
Telit New Autonomous Navigation IoT Module Relies on Internal Sensors to
Business Wire (press release) LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced commercial availability of the SL869-3DR, …
Expanse Project and Borderless.tech to develop blockchain-based voting
EconoTimes The Expanse Project, a fault tolerant cloud computer built on blockchain technology to censorship resistant applications, and Borderless.tech has …
Kbank rolls out blockchain document-verification service
KASIKORNBANK (KBank) has tapped IBM expertise to introduce blockchain technology, which will be used to certify original documents for greater …
Taking the low-power modular approach to LoRa in the IoT
… remote sensing and asset tracking, along with increased use in machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, the pace is picking up with major LoRaWAN …
Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec: Cloud computing, Internet of Things threaten
Healthcare IT News … so-called Internet of Things without full thought given to potentially tragic consequences. It is in this environment that CIOs find themselves today, …
Canonical Officially Releases Ubuntu Snappy Core 16 with a Focus on IoT
Softpedia News “As companies continue to embrace Internet of Things solutions, security and quick, easy system updates are critical,” said Jason Shepherd, Director …
OPC UA: The Honeywell/Emerson Connection
… wrote about the increasing number of unconventional partnerships being created to deliver Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) products and services.
What you need to know about blockchain
A blockchain system consists of two types of record, transactions and blocks. Transactions are simply the actions carried out in a particular period, …
Telecom Application Programming Interface (API) Market to 2025: Trends,
Digital Journal The global API market is expected to grow with the rise in adoption of machine-to-machine devices (M2M). The global API market is segmented on the …
CIO interview with Bask Iyer, CIO and GM, IoT at VMware
CIO and General Manager of IoT Bask Iyer shared his take on the Internet of Things, balancing the future and the past, and putting the customer first.
Artificial Intelligence Could Pave Way to New Cyber Warfare, Elon Musk
Nature World News Analysis of the incident confirmed that the hackers used a huge “botnet,” or a system of computers, that comprised simple internet of things (IoT) …
Blockchain Router Solution to Government Surveillance, Nodio Believes
Nodio, a development company behind the Xana blockchain network, believes its blockchain-based router is the solution against government …
Fintech firms are innovative but pose no risk to traditional banking
International Business Times UK Banking and finance “Most fintech at this stage, have not come to a point where systemic financial system risks are posed.“iStock. We have noticed …
Zenia Tata is on a mission to help women feel safe in any situation
The company is currently researching how machine-to-machine technology could make the pendant work independently from a smartphone.
Disruptive Technology for Hackers: The Internet of Things
Despite its many benefits, the Internet of Things (IoT) is posing a real threat to the cybersecurity of public and private sector systems. This disruptive …
Password Managers Just Got A Lot More Accessible
Earlier this year, the Director of National Intelligence named the internet of things as a major threat to America, and just last month, a massive attack on …
Telit New Autonomous Navigation IoT Module Relies on Internal Sensors to
Yahoo Sports Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced commercial availability of the SL869-3DR, a GNSS module for global use which …
The Internet of Things Is a Cyberwar Nightmare
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/11/03/the_internet_of_things_is_a_cyberwar_nightmare_287277.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTODg2MjQwMDA2OTUzMjkxNDIyMzIaNTgyNWFhYTk5YmRkZDQ0ODpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGyQD60dEcK-aZBVKp7YPJ_4Bdrxw The race to the IoT OS Software firms large and small and frantically pumping, re-tuning and finessing their operating systems to embrace Internet of Things (IoT) centric …
R3 Adds Interbank Trading Market to Blockchain Consortium
R3 Adds Interbank Trading Market to Blockchain Consortium … work with other financial institutions worldwide on blockchain development initiatives.
ChronoBank Time-Based Cryptocurrency Platform to Disrupt Recruitment
newsBTC An Australian startup has decided to offer blockchain based solution for the recruitment industry. The distributed ledger platform, ChronoBank is built …
Princeton Identity receives Outstanding Technology Development Company
SourceSecurity.com Princeton Identity Inc. is formerly a line of business of SRI International, marketed under the SRI Identity brand. Under its new name, it continues to …
Global Accumulator Market: Explores New Growth Opportunities by 2026
Thus synchronizing different manufacturing operations and increasing efficiency, by facilitating a continuous flow of products from machine to machine …
Cisco: Securing the Internet of Things Is Everybody’s Responsibility
For the past couple of weeks, security and the Internet of Things (IoT) have been in the news like never before. During the first few days after the …
Why Sierra Wireless, Inc. Stock Soared Today
Shares of Sierra Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ:SWIR) were up 14.3% as of 1:00 p.m. Friday after the Internet of Things specialist announced …
Japan Bank Blockchain Consortium Launches With 42 Members
However, the announcement received an overwhelming response which shows the enthusiasm among financial institutions towards the blockchain …
Microsoft launches Project Bletchley on Azure
Microsoft’s blockchain venture, Project Bletchley, has been made available on the company’s cloud app marketplace. Bletchley v1 is now ready to be …
Ubuntu Core 16 released, UNU AI system makes accurate predictions,
Companies are continuing to embrace the Internet of Things and its solutions, which is why Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 16 for IoT devices …
Security Experts: IoT Will Be Biggest Threat Of The Next Decade
The Internet of Things will be at the center of enterprise security and infrastructure readiness for the next several years, a panel of security experts said …
As Hype Wanes, Blockchain Settles into Practical Banking Niches
Technologists and bankers may be settling on a narrower range of use cases for blockchain technology than suggested by the euphoric discussions of …
Blockchain-Based Voting Platform Prototype from Expanse Project
The Expanse Project, Borderless.tech, has announced the development of a new blockchain-based voting platform with the potential to change the …
Telit Communications (LON:TCM) Broker Price Targets
Telit Communications PLC (Telit) is a United Kingdom-based enabler of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications providing cellular, short range …
2017 Smart City Expo to focus on the internet of things: organizer
TAIPEI – The 2017 Smart City Summit and Expo, which will be held in Taipei from Feb. 21-24, will focus on the development and application of the …
White House CIO warns health CIOs to beware the internet of things
In keynote at CHIME16 Fall CIO Forum conference of healthcare CIOs, White House CIO Tony Scott says they should be wary of the internet of things …
Hackers might be a pain, but we need them, expert says
Sure, they might take your credit card information, stop you from watching Netflix and figure a way to use any key fob to access your car, but don’t think …
FBI warns of continuing botnet strikes
“The FTC should immediately use all the tools at its disposal to ensure that manufacturers of [internet of things] devices implement strong security …
Bad Digital Law is Fueling the Internet of Things Dumpster Fire
One day you’re using your Hewlett Packard printer, same as always, and the next day it tells you the ink cartridge is empty. You use a high-quality, …
Five Marquette Catholic High School Students Awarded Scholarship to Attend
LaPorteCountyLife.com These five students, along with Marquette Catholic’s Principal Jim White and other MQTT students will travel to Costa Rica, in the summer of 2017, …
Op-Ed: How Blockchain Technology Can Revolutionize E-Democracy
Blockchain technology finally introduces the ability to replace trust in government offices with trust in a protocol based upon the impartiality of …
Will hackers disrupt Tuesday’s election?
Everyone understands that Wall Street would be at a standstill, but so would farmers who increasingly rely on the Internet of Things to monitor …
Link for download MQTT Server feature is broken
https://developer.ibm.com/wasdev/downloads/#asset/features-com.ibm.webspher e.appserver.mqtt-3.1 doesn’t work. Is this feature still …
No, Hackers Apparently Didn’t Take Down The Entire Liberian Internet
The same set of hijacked appliances and other parts of the Internet of Things that powered the US takedown was apparently being used in Liberia to …
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