The house (or the apartment or the studio or your parents’ basement) is increasingly becoming a focal point of daily life. Time, then, to picture the house as a bit more like home. As PYMNTS found in one recent study, “Navigating The COVID-19 Pandemic: The...
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...
The Chinese and American governments are engaged in another proxy war. Nothing new there. But for all the saber rattling, this time it’s not about battleships and fighter planes. What we’ve got now is a tech war over super high-speed data networks, more specifically, whose...
The global smart city market is set to reach $252 billion by 2025. To keep smart city initiatives secure, there’s a growing need for stringent measures that can safely manage the increasing data flows and foster connectivity. In the latest Intelligence of Things Tracker, Vikas...
With some analysts projecting a trillion IoT-enabled devices to be in use around the world by 2035, defending the IoT ecosystem is becoming more crucial as emerging technologies spread across business sectors and spark the development of smarter cities, homes and automobiles. In the February Intelligence...