Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is pulling the plug on its plans to create a smart city district in Toronto, CEO Daniel L. Doctoroff said in a Medium post Thursday (May 7). For more than two years, Sidewalk Labs worked with...
The coronavirus has forced us to embrace the connected age in ways we might not have dreamed of a few short months ago. Work from home, play games (online) from home, bank from the comfort of your couch — because the bank branches are closed,...
The flurry of legislative action was not limited to stimulus bills. As of this writing, the House of Representatives is poised to take up a $2 trillion plan to help individuals, families and businesses hurt by the economic fallout tied to COVID-19. And elsewhere, perhaps...
Indispensable but interchangeable. Such is the problem of modern ISPs – the telcos, cable companies and satellite providers. They provide the fundamental infrastructure that keeps the entire digital ecosystem running, but they are a utility service of sorts, and thus don’t have much to differentiate themselves beyond...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a phenomenon — so far, a bit of a limited one. Connected devices harbor the potential to bring commerce to endpoints where it never existed before. But right now, most firms that enable commerce are struggling to enable it...
For iPhone users, leveraging their Apple Wallet to store their boarding pass is old hat. Buy a plane ticket, click the button in the confirmation link in the email — and the boarding pass appears, ready to use on almost any airline. Easy peasy. For...
Flash back a few years and everyone had one or maybe two connected devices. There were the smartphones we all had, with a heavy sprinkling of tablets and connected gaming consoles. One could count a computer, although desktops tend to lack portability. Today, the landscape...
After years of talk and theorizing, the Internet of Things — and that seems to be the label that will stick, at least for now — is finally coming together in concrete, measurable ways that are making impacts on the daily lives of consumers. Even...
Europe’s smart home market growth increased in the last year, growing by 18.1 percent over the same quarter from 2018. “Amazon had a stellar quarter and was responsible for more than half of the smart speakers shipped to Europe in the third quarter of 2019,”...
