Amazon has made a deal with Verizon to use the communication giant’s network to link its proposed satellite fleet. As Bloomberg News noted in its report on Tuesday (Oct. 26), the deal adds fuel to Amazon’s rivalry with Elon Musk’s StarLink System. Amazon founder Jeff...
United Kingdom-based chip tech firm Arm is debuting tools to help curb the development time of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices by about 40%, Reuters reported Monday (Oct. 18). Arm’s technology involves supplying the underlying blueprints to chipmakers to allow them the power to...
According to government estimates, hearing aids are needed by 25 percent of those aged 65 to 74 and up to 50 percent for those 75 and older. In all, about 28.8 million U.S. adults could benefit from using hearing aids. And yet, the figures also show,...
The connected economy is changing how people, businesses and governments interact within and across once-separate silos. Smart devices within those connected ecosystems are the conduit to linking daily life, from how we pay to how we travel. Within the home setting, appliances talk to one...
At last count, there were roughly 40 billion connected devices in service globally that do everything from responding to voice commands from devices sitting on kitchen countertops to alert consumers who are at their front door before they knock, to tracking their steps and vital...
The great digital shift has changed how we work, communicate and even get our healthcare. But that shift has worked well only for those with the ability to get onboard – namely, via broadband access. In an age when most people carry mobile devices, laptops have...
There are changes driven by choice, and there are changes driven by necessity. In the world of payments and commerce, the pandemic has produced both. It has forced all manner of businesses — younger firms, firmly entrenched enterprises, domestic players and international conglomerates — to...
Bill Gates’ interests are quietly moving from server farms to soil farms. No one knows why except Bill and Melinda Gates and their inner circle, but the speculation is turning again to their vision of building new ‘connected’ smart cities and farms. This is where...
In the Land Down Under, the ripple effects of the clash between regulators and a giant in online search (that would be Google, of course) may be such that consumers are left searching for search. And it signals that Big Tech may deem it prudent...
