MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SmartThings, creator of the leading open platform for the smart home and the consumer Internet of Things. SmartThings supports an open and growing ecosystem of developers, who are producing new types of connected devices and [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – KT will advance into the “smart” energy market by transforming its 400 branch offices and data centers into advanced energy centers, which, according to KT’s plan, will offer EV (electric vehicle) charging services, recycle wasted heat gathered from data centers, provide integrated ESS-EMS service and manage electric demand intelligently. The [...]
CAMPBELL, Calif. July 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its new Connected Car M2M Connections and Services market size and forecasts report, which focuses on the telecom-related services available for automotive applications, fleet management, and telematics, as well as the business models and trends that are driving the connected car [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Visa Inc., the global leader in payments, today announced the opening of One Market, a 112,000 square foot innovation center and office space at One Market Street in San Francisco. The move provides Visa technologists, clients, partners and the Bay Area tech community an innovative space to jointly [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. July 8, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Technology industry leaders Atmel Corporation, Broadcom Corporation, Dell, Intel Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Wind River, are joining forces to establish a new industry consortium focused on improving interoperability and defining the connectivity requirements for the billions of devices that will make up the Internet of Things [...]
DEARBORN, Mich. June 25 (Korea Bizwire)–As vehicles become an integral part of the Internet of Things, Ford and Intel are researching new opportunities for the connected car, including giving drivers the ability to remotely peer into their car using a smartphone, or a vehicle that could identify its owner using facial recognition software. The joint [...]
LONDON, June 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–“For the automotive industry the emergence of the IoT constitutes a disruptive and transformative environment characterized by value chain and business model upheaval and a ‘collaborate or die’ ecosystem friction reality prompting it to redefine and reinvent itself in order to capitalize on the huge opportunities in the [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–SOASTA, the leader in cloud and mobile testing, today announced the results of its first Internet of Things Survey, which shows that nearly three out of four (73 percent) Americans admit to being unfamiliar with the Internet of Things (IoT), technologies that connect “smart” devices and everyday electronic objects [...]
PARIS, June 11, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Sequans Communications S.A. (SQNS) today introduced the newest member of its StreamliteLTE™ family of chipset solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT). The Colibri LTE Platform comprises Sequans’ latest baseband and RF chips (SQN3221 and SQN3241), an integrated network and application CPU platform running Sequans’ carrier-proven LTE protocol stack, an [...]
PISCATAWAY, N.J. June 12, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, today launched a new standards development project, IEEE P2413™, “IEEE Standard for an Architectural Framework for the Internet of Things (IoT).” Upon completion, the standard will provide a robust architectural framework for the IoT, reducing market fragmentation, improving interoperability, [...]