Episode 405: More CES trends including wireless power
Want to bring an IoT company back from the dead? Or understand the technical and business challenges associated with building an IoT product? Then this story by Kevin Chung is for you. Kevin and I ha...
12 Jan 20231h
Episode 404: CES has more Matter and many voices
Kevin and I are at CES 2023 this week and eager for the show floor to open to see all of the new and crazy gear. But before we see the show floor, we had to slog through the planned news and media eve...
5 Jan 202357min
Episode 403: Matter upgrades aren’t ready for prime time
We tried Matter for the first time late last week, and have a lot to share with our listeners about what we and other journalists learned through the process. The early verdict is that most people sho...
22 Dec 20221h 3min
Episode 402: Google begins its Matter roll out
This week’s show is a celebration of Matter actually hitting devices, with Google announcing its Matter roll out and Eve allowing users to update its devices to Matter as well. We’re super excited to ...
15 Dec 20221h 1min
Episode 401: Two big smart home deals explained
The end of the year is a busy time for M&A as companies rush to get deals done before the start of a new tax year, and this week the smart home sector saw Assa Abloy sell its Yale and August smart loc...
8 Dec 202254min
Episode 400: How to pronounce IKEA’s Dirigera hub
This week’s show starts off with a review of news from AWS Re:Invent which is happening now in LAs Vegas. We cover the general availability of support for the latest version of the MQTT messaging prot...
1 Dec 20221h 6min
Episode 399: Alexa’s drama and our holiday gift guide
The biggest news in the internet of things this week was the staggering story about Amazon’s Alexa business being responsible for the majority of an estimated $10 billion loss in the year ahead. So Ke...
24 Nov 20221h 1min
Episode 398: Bluetooth bets on 6 GHz and TP-Link hops on Wi-Fi 7
Amazon has started laying off workers, including some working on Alexa and in Amazon’s devices business. We discuss this as well as IBM following in Google’s footsteps and shutting down its IoT cloud ...
17 Nov 202256min
