Episode 357: Too many companies are paying ransomware
This week we kick off the show with an explainer on Sigfox’s receivership before delving into grim news from Claroty, a cybersecurity firm. Claroty surveyed 1,100 IT and OT (operational technology) p...
3 Helmi 202258min
Episode 356: Smart home improvement is now a thing
This week’s show starts with a healthy portion of chips, with the main course being Nvidia’s reported acceptance that its deal to acquire ARM isn’t likely to happen. We then turn to the U.S. Commerce ...
27 Tammi 20221h
Episode 355: Get ready for an active FTC and energy storing appliances
The big story this week in IoT was the joint venture between Ford and ADT to add smart home security to cars through an in-vehicle security system. Then we discuss the FTC and Department of Justice re...
20 Tammi 20221h 7min
Episode 354: Google’s Soli pivot and Amazon’s Sidewalk news
This week Google reminded us that we don’t actually own our connected products when it removed functionality from grouped Nest speakers after losing a patent case filed by Sonos. Amazon’s Sidewalk net...
13 Tammi 20221h 5min
Episode 353: Virtual CES extravaganza
It’s CES week, and neither Kevin nor I are physically there for the second year running. That makes it really tough to get a macro sense of cool tech and upcoming trends outside of press releases and ...
6 Tammi 20221h
Episode 352: As Alexa goes, so does the smart home?
We’re back after a one-week break in the Internet of Things Podcast, and we didn’t miss too much. The biggest stories of this show are the slow collapse of CES 2022 and a Bloomberg article that uses i...
30 Joulu 20211h 8min
Episode 351: Smart homes in the metaverse
What happens when the smart home meets the metaverse? We talk about the potential for better user interfaces and home mapping if we build digital twins of the home in a metaverse, while also discussin...
16 Joulu 202158min
Episode 350: Lexmark shares how to manage millions of connected devices
Today’s show is our 350th episode, so we start off with a little bit of celebration before hitting half a dozen pieces of Amazon-related news, including the AWS outage that took out many smart home se...
9 Joulu 20211h
