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Amazon Echo: great tech present for your tech-averse parents!
Never let it be said that I get serious about my Christmas shopping until about this date!
This year, my major suggestion is about a product that it took me a full year to buy after my mother-in-law of a certain age sent last Christmas’s check: never let it be said that I rush into purchases […]
Live Blogging Gartner ITxpo Barcelona!
After a harrowing trip via Air France (#neveragain) I’m in lovely Barcelona, live-blogging Gartner ITxpo courtesy of Siemens — but they aren’t dictating my editorial judgment.
Keynoter is Peter Sondergaard, Sr. VP, Gartner Research:
start with high-scale traditional IT structures, but with new emphasis on cloud, etc. IT system now partially inside your org. and part outside. We […]
Smart Disposables: Could This Be Birth of Internet of Everything?
Could EVERYTHING be “smart?” It may be happening sooner we thought, and with implications that are hard to fathom today.
That’s the potential with new technology pioneered by Shyam Gollakota, an assistant professor at the University of Washington. For the first time, it would let battery- and cordless-less devices harvest signals from Wi-Fi, radio, or TV to […]
Amazon Leads IoT With Comprehensive Services, Platform & Devices!
Several months ago I predicted that Amazon’s Echo might become the IoT’s killer device, primarily because it is voice activated. It appears that prediction is coming true, which should give the entire consumer IoT a boost because Amazon is also providing a soup-to-nuts approach of devices, platform, and storage meeting a wide range of IoT […]
Zoe: perhaps even better than Echo as IoT killer device?
I’ve raved before about Echo, Amazon’s increasingly versatile smart home hub, primarily because it is voice activated, and thus can be used by anyone, regardless of tech smarts — or whether their hands are full of stuff. As I’ve mentioned, voice control makes it a natural for my “SmartAging” concept to help improve seniors’ health […]
My IoT Day Interview With Sudha Jamthe
Oops: I’ve been preoccupied with all sorts of dreck since returning from my SAP event, so I haven’t been able to post.
Did want to call your attention to a long IoT Day interview I did with the estimable Sudha Jamthe, author of The Internet of Things Business Primer. We covered a range of topics, including […]
Amazon Echo: is it the smart home Trojan Horse?
Could Amazon’s Echo be the Trojan Horse that gets the smart home and IoT inside our homes — and consciousness?
I’ve always suspected Amazon was critical to corporate adoption of e-commerce in the ’90s because so many C-level executives were introduced to the concept by doing online holiday shopping for their families. Just a hunch …
Fast forward to […]
Live Blogging from the IoT Global Summit
Keynotes:
Came in on end of presentation by Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-WA, co-chair of the House IoT Caucus and an IT industry vet. Her litany of federal inaction in the face of rapidly-evolving tech — especially regarding privacy protections, where the key law was enacted in 1986 — was really dispiriting, although it’s good to know […]
W. David Stephenson
W. David Stephenson, principal of Stephenson Strategies, has built an international reputation as creative Internet of Things (IoT) consultant, thought leader and journalist.
He particularly focuses on a paradigm shift to “circular companies,” away from traditional hierarchies and linear processes, to a new model in which everyone — supply chain, manufacturing, product design, marketing, distribution networks, and […]
