The Intelligence of Things (IoT) has become a fixture of everyday life, with more than 14 billion connected devices expected to be in use by the end of 2019. However, as IoT continues to proliferate in more industries and use cases, concerns about data privacy...
Facebook and its social media properties Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger all experienced outages over the weekend, with users around the world reporting problems. According to a report in Mashable, users said they were having difficulties when using Facebook and Instagram, complaining of not being able...
Approximately 20 billion IoT-enabled devices will be connected by 2020. These items are fast, handle an increasingly large amount of personal and financial data and tend to be prone to cybercriminals’ attacks. A large-scale, IoT-based breach has yet to occur, but the seeds are already...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has firmly taken hold, with new applications — focusing on the support of consumer, business and industrial use cases — now being developed and rolled out regularly. The adoption of IoT technology to support business use cases is particularly impressive....
Every day, in nearly every corner of the world, 1.4 billion people log onto Facebook and 500 million people log onto Instagram. On Wednesday (March 13), that audience of almost two billion – roughly a quarter of the planet’s population – got something of a nasty shock. When...
Google has expanded its users’ choice of search products, with pro-privacy rival DuckDuckGo benefiting the most. According to reports, Google has “quietly” updated its default search engine lists, expanding them to include pro-privacy search engines in 60 markets around the world. These search engines are...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, is marking the technology’s 30th anniversary by asking for an end to its misuse. According to Bloomberg, Berners-Lee explained in a letter that while the technology had created positive opportunities, it had also been abused...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is about much more than the actual things, of course. All those “smart” appliances, speakers, TVs, vehicles, thermostats and other devices connect to networks and infrastructure in certain ways, with that back-end work a relatively significant source of anxiety in...
There’s room for payment technology providers to marry speed and safety as IoT transforms the way consumers receive and make payments. According to NMI CEO Vijay Sondhi, government efforts can help with security, and loyalty programs can help with consumer stickiness.