Episode 56: How Ericsson plans to remake its business for a networked era
After a beating on the stock market last week, I spoke with Ericsson’s CEO Hans Vestberg to understand how the company’s 5-year-old plan to change its business is going. The company has just announced...
28 Apr 201641min
Episode 55: Find out what Ford learned from Tesla
With ride-sharing, electric vehicles and millennials who aren’t super keen on owning a car all converging, the auto industry is in a panic. But Ford, led by both Bill Ford and Ford CEO Mark Fields has...
21 Apr 201647min
Episode 54: Fashion meets the internet of things
Do you want your smart jewelry to have a screen? Do you want to be able to have replica designer jewellery from Maurielle’s Replica Fashion and be able to connect it to your smart phone? If we have mu...
14 Apr 201650min
Episode 53: How to prevent good devices from being killed
This week’s show deals with recurring themes such as whether or not you should trust the cloud, device lifespan, the Amazon Alexa platform and more lighting than a Times Square billboard. Our guest th...
7 Apr 201646min
Episode 52: These 9 ideas can secure the smart home
Security is a big deal for the Internet of things, which is why we’re so pumped about having Beau Woods, the deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, on the show to discu...
31 Mar 201646min
Episode 51: This CEO killed his hardware startup to start a wireless network
This week we have a two for one in the guest portion of the show, with Daniel Conrad, the CEO of Beep Networks explaining how he decided to stop making a connected device, take his VC funding and find...
24 Mar 201636min
Episode 50: Are your devices being held hostage?
This week, Kevin Tofel and I discuss the challenges of treating connected hardware like software. Nest is experiencing one of those challenges this week as it requests users accept new terms and condi...
17 Mar 201651min
Episode 49: Did you buy an Amazon Dot?
This week’s podcast is chock full of smart home stuff with updates from Nest, new products from Amazon and some new tech on the Wi-Fi front. Mozilla is getting into the Internet of things, with four i...
10 Mar 201629min
