The Internet of Things is a remarkably fragmented world where no single operating system or technology will dominate for the foreseeable future. So big opportunities exist for developers that can help… Read more »
Zombie technology UWB returns from the dead in a slightly modified format to offer incredibly granular location within a few inches for the internet of things. Read more »
Android L is looking pretty good on the Samsung Galaxy S5 based on a preview video. Tile’s Bluetooth tracking tags are gaining Android support and components of the modular Project Ara… Read more »
Google is proposing a URL-based naming system for navigating the internet of things that it calls The Physical Web. Here’s how it will work and why it might not. Read more »
Tile, the makers of a bluetooth tag that people stick on their personal objects to avoid losing those objects, has detailed its $13 million raised in the last year and its… Read more »
Apple Pay may finally pry open the door for a mobile payments market that remains almost entirely untapped in the U.S. And a soon-to-be independent PayPal could be ready to pounce… Read more »
Open Garden’s smartphone app allows protesters to communicate without an internet connection, but it’s also being used to spread disinformation. With verified accounts and private chatrooms, Open Garden hopes to solve… Read more »
Bogged-down cellular networks and the looming threat of government censorship have led Chinese protestors to turn to FireChat, a smartphone messaging app that doesn’t need an internet connection to work. Read more »
There’s a lot Skyhook can tell about you based on the Wi-Fi networks you cross everyday. It’s putting that info to work with a more refined set of geofencing and profiling… Read more »
U.K. company PitPat is launching its own quantified canine tracker, but this one aims to undercut Whistle and Tagg in price and exceed them in battery life. Read more »