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    ABI’s Michela Menting: Cyber a ‘Fledgling’ Matter in Internet of Things

    A new report from ABI Research outlines market demand for cybersecurity tools from Internet of Things users in areas such as consumer privacy and data protection. The market intelligence firm said Friday that current product development requirements and the consideration between cost and risk for connected “things” will drive the market. “Embedded security, trusted computing, security protocols—these are all fledgling areas of product development […] More

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    Software AG Unveils Updated Streaming Analytics Platform; Wolfram Jost Comments

    Software AG has launched a new version of its Apama Streaming Analytics platform with multichannel data streaming and parallel processing functions, native integration with Software AG Universal Messaging and a shared developer environment with other products. The company said Monday the platform works to monitor and analyze streaming big data from sources such as social media, mobile applications and the Internet […] More

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    Verizon’s Steve Lefrancois: Cloud, ‘Internet of Things’ to Grow in Public Sector

    Steve Lefrancois, chief technology officer of Verizon‘s public sector markets, highlighted several technologies that he believes will see increasing rates of adoption within the public sector in an interview published Thursday on Verizon’s website. Lefrancois cited cloud computing, mobile, big data and the Internet of Things or machine-to-machine technologies as among several potential growth areas for the public sector market. He […] More

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    Frost & Sullivan: Big Data to Drive Smart Buildings Industry Growth

    Frost & Sullivan believes that big data will help facilitate the development of the smart buildings industry amid the growing trends of urbanization, technology connectivity and convergence and device communications. In the report titled “Big Data as an Enabler for Smart Buildings,” Frost & Sullivan says big data and related technology platforms such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing […] More

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    Joyce Mullen: Dell ‘Internet of Things’ Lab Built for Customer Testing

    Dell‘s OEM Solutions division has partnered with Intel to open the new Dell Internet of Things Lab in Santa Clara, California as the companies aim to help customers develop and test IoT solutions. Dell said Tuesday the lab is intended to help customers explore IoT technologies in order to apply the tools to manage business outcomes and time-to-market for products and services. “This lab […] More

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    Informatica’s Kimberley Williams: Internet of Things Could Transform the Business of Gov’t

    Kimberley Williams, chief strategist for Informatica‘s public sector practice, urges government agencies to keep pace with the commercial sector and look into how the Internet of Things can transform public sector services and operations. Williams wrote in a Federal Times piece published Thursday that the government is wary of the IoT’s relevance to the sector even though IoT has developed in industry […] More

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    Verizon’s Mark Bartolomeo: ‘Internet of Things’ Must Center on Network Security

    Mark Bartolomeo, head of connected solutions at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has urged industry to focus on building a network that utilizes cybersecurity measures and greater cloud capacity in a shift toward the “Internet of Things.” Marie McGehee, the company’s director of corporate communications, wrote Monday that industry usually looks at the future connected machines and devices instead of the network connecting […] More

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    Software AG’s Robert Rowe Discusses How ‘Internet of Things’ Works

    Robert Rowe, a product marketing manager at Software AG, has discussed in a blog article how interconnected devices and home appliances work to exchange information under a common umbrella called the Internet of Things. He wrote Friday that sensors, radio-frequency identification, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, IPv6 and Representational State Transfer application programming interfaces are some of the […] More

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    Tech Firms Start Consortium to Back Interoperability for ‘Internet of Things’

    Technology companies Atmel, Broadcom, Dell, Intel, Samsung and Wind River have partnered to start a consortium that will work to bolster interoperability and define connectivity requirements for products that are a part of the Internet of Things. The Open Interconnect Consortium seeks to ensure the interoperability of billions of devices that could come online by 2020, the companies said Tuesday. “Having […] More

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    Cubic Team to Evaluate Mesh Network Tech at Gulf Coast Port; Randall Shepard Comments

    Cubic has partnered with Gulf Coast State College, Gulf Power and Florida’s Port Panama City in evaluating products and services to support the Internet of Things and training for job opportunities in the field. The partnership is intended to combine the efforts of local industry, academic institutions and government agencies to create jobs that meet the needs of the Internet of […] More

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    Dan Kaufman: DARPA Working to Secure Internet of Things

    Dan Kaufman, DARPA‘s Information Innovation Office director, has revealed that the agency is looking into technology that will help secure the emerging Internet of Things, Gigaom reported Thursday. David Meyer writes Kaufman discussed such potential developments at the recent Gigaom Structure event in San Francisco attended by several technology industry leaders. Kaufman said DARPA is working on […] More

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    CEA Report: Non-Licensed Spectrum’s Annual Economic Value Reaches $62B

    The Consumer Electronics Association has published a report indicating that a radio spectrum used to facilitate enterprise wireless communications contributes $62 billion to the nation’s economy a year. CEA forecasts that consumer electronics devices utilizing non-licensed radio frequency bands will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent between 2011 and 2016, the […] More