When it comes to improving connectivity, IoT-enabled devices aren’t just getting smarter – they are also getting better at helping people more easily connect with one another and their devices. And now, that same technology is also helping people connect with their pets. The January...
Smart speakers get an awful lot of press — other than cars, they seemed to be everyone’s favorite gadget of the future at CES this year — but do regular people love them as much as tech writers seem to? NPR, it seems, had a...
“How do we get people and things from point A to point B in way that makes the experience frictionless,” is how Hany Fam, Mastercard executive vice president of Enterprise Partnerships, started the conversation with Karen Webster about Mastercard’s newly announced partnership with digital location platform HERE Technologies. For Mastercard,...
The right connections can open up plenty of opportunities. And, in the automotive world, connectivity is helping automakers find new opportunities to rev up in-vehicle purchases among motorists. Every weekday morning, 135 million U.S. adults drive a car to work, with commutes ranging from as...
Retailers are starting to tune in to the potential of smart TVs for offering on-screen, real-time commercial purchasing. In the latest PYMNTS Intelligence of Things Tracker™, Connekt CEO Mike Fitzsimmons explains how the company’s ShopTV app lets viewers buy goods from the commercials they’re watching...
The retail industry seems to be taking inspiration from the 1985 film The Purple Rose of Cairo. While audiences won’t see products actually moving out of the screen and into the real world, smart TV-enabled shopping, which allows viewers to purchase goods straight off the screen,...
“Alexa?” “Hey, Siri…” “Okay, Google…” “Hi, Bixby…” If we told the average person in early 2013 that someday it was going to be very important to learn the correct way to greet your devices, the average person might have thought we’d gone mad. It wasn’t that people...
If it ain’t broke — then use IoT to fix it before it breaks. In November’s Intelligence of Things (IoT) Tracker™, Bell and Howell CEO Ramesh Ratan and VP Don Bullock explain why companies are rushing to embrace IoT to fix machines before they break...
Handing off product packaging to an automated system is a relief, but returning from a meeting to find a treadmill on the fritz and product sitting still — all while customers call in, clamoring for their shipments — is not. That’s the kind of problem with which...
