IoT weekly round-up: Thursday 25th January 2018
Written by Jen Clark | January 26, 2018 | Commentary / Opinion
This week, we’re delighted that IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty is one of the chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Elsewhere, Facebook and Element AI announce new artificial intelligence endeavours, and GM turns its attentions to autonomous driving tech. Davos forum chaired entirely by women This is a big one – the World ...read more
IoT weekly round-up: Thursday 27th July 2017
Written by Jen Clark | July 27, 2017 | Blog
This week in the connected world: Disney tracks movie audience’s enjoyment with a new facial recognition system, Apple and Cochlear develop the first iPhone hearing implant and Google announces a new studio aimed at getting machine learning startups off the ground. Read on for the latest. Google introduces Launchpad Studio for AI startups Another week, ...read more
IoT weekly round-up: Thursday 20th April 2017
Written by Jen Clark | April 20, 2017 | Blog
Welcome to the IoT weekly round-up. Unsurprisingly, this week is full of Facebook news from the two-day F8 event on 18-19 April, the most interesting of which is the possibility that one day we will be able to publish emails, tweets and messages directly from our thoughts. Read on for the latest. A flood of ...read more
IoT weekly round-up, Thursday 6th April 2017
Written by Jen Clark | April 6, 2017 | Blog
In this week’s IoT round-up, Garadget throws its toys out of the pram following a rude review of its garage door opener app, Greenwich gets a taste of the self-driving shuttle bus and Amazon will refund millions of dollars in unauthorized in-app purchases made by children. Amazon will refund kids’ unauthorized in-app purchases Amazon will ...read more
IoT weekly round-up: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Written by Jen Clark | February 2, 2017 | Blog
In this week’s IoT round-up, Facebook-owned Oculus loses a legal VR dispute with ZeniMax, stratospheric iPhone 7 sales put Apple in the top spot for smartphone vendors and tax services firm H&R Block brings the power of IBM Watson to the chore of doing your taxes. Pokémon Go crosses the $1 billion revenue mark Pokémon ...read more
IoT weekly round-up: Thursday 19th January 2017
Written by Jen Clark | January 19, 2017 | Blog
Welcome to the IoT weekly round-up. This week, the connected world brings you flying cars! Well, almost. They’re going to be tested by Airbus this year, apparently. TomTom acquires Berlin-based start-up Autonomos to beef up its self-driving tech, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg defends Oculus Rift against allegations of stolen trade secrets, and Brexit takes its toll ...read more
IoT weekly round-up Thursday 20th October 2016
Written by Jen Clark | October 20, 2016 | Blog
Welcome to IBM’s weekly IoT round-up: the latest news in the connected world of the Internet of Things. This week, the WristWhirl prototype lets you use your Smartwatch one-handed, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ are in hot water over unlawful data collection and Facebook launches ‘Workplace’, its messaging service for businesses. Read on for the latest ...read more
IoT weekly round-up: Thursday 6th October 2016
Written by Jen Clark | October 10, 2016 | Blog
This week in IoT and tech news, Facebook launches its new Marketplace feature and a Lite version of Messenger, police body cameras are a big hit with the force, and agriculture entrepreneurs gather to ask how technology can solve food shortage across the world. Check out the top IoT news stories of the week. Facebook ...read more