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How did you buy your last thermostat? What about your last door lock? If you don’t know, the odds are that’s about to change. If you do know, the odds are… Read more »
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Stacey is happy when immersed in SEC filings, tech specs or poking through a data center. She has spent the last 15 years covering technology and finance for publications such as The Deal, the Austin Business Journal, The Bond Buyer and BusinessWeek, and works remotely from Austin, Texas. At Gigaom, Stacey covers broadband, the internet of things, policy and regulation, and entrepreneurs/startups. She is particularly excited to discover new ways technology is changing the world.
How did you buy your last thermostat? What about your last door lock? If you don’t know, the odds are that’s about to change. If you do know, the odds are… Read more »
The Bluetooth tracker to help people stop leaving their wallet or purse behind has become almost ubiquitous, as has the GPS-based tracker for things that people have deemed a little bit… Read more »
One of the biggest roadblock to adopting the public cloud for Rich Roseman, former CIO at 21st Century Fox had nothing to do with bandwidth, vendor-lock in or security. It had… Read more »
The wealth of data and convenience a connected home can offer is impressive. Saving energy or adding security are primary reasons consumers are buying… Read more »
One year ago, Comcast, the largest cable provider in the country announced it would buy Time Warner Cable, the nation’s second largest cable provider, in a deal valued at $45 billion… Read more »
There are several efforts to build a more decentralized internet — from attempts to build peer-to-peer wireless networks like Commotion or Open Garden to similar efforts with P2P browsers, such as… Read more »
Updated: This story was updated on Feb. 17 to note that as of Feb. 15 Netatmo had updated its process to fix this security flaw. The Netatmo weather station, a popular… Read more »
Combining the long haul fiber optic networks with IP transit routing networks could help telecom operators save 40 percent in costs or could let them boost their network capacity by the… Read more »
Sonic, the regional ISP that is transitioning from a copper-based DSL and telephone company to a fiber-to-the-home provider, has announced plans to expand its fiber construction to Brentwood, a Silicon Valley… Read more »
Cambridge Consultants, a product development group based in the U.K., is showing off a connected shopping cart that can tell a retailer where you are in a store within three feet… Read more »