Bluetooth Special Interest Group has ratified a new version of the Bluetooth Low Energy standard that adds new security features preventing people from sniffing out your Bluetooth signal. Read more »
Science teachers wanting to teach their students about the changing ways of weather soon could find themselves with an interesting teaching aid. Crowdsourced weather startup BloomSky plans to give away 10,000… Read more »
Kore Wireless, one of the biggest independent players in internet-of-things connectivity, is buying competitor RacoWireless. Combined, the two will manage 3 million cellular connections linking everything from farm equipment to bagged… Read more »
Mojio’s new plug-in car module will link your car to the cloud, tracking the daily minutiae of driving. App developers like Glympse, Concur and IFTTT are then using that data to… Read more »
A new feature in the Automatic Link called License+ will track a teenager’s driving behavior over 100 hours, giving concerned parents a way to test their kids performance on the road. Read more »
Weightless’ new effort to build an industrial networking standard on new unlicensed frequencies gets that much easier, thanks to Nwave. The company is contributing its proprietary technology to the standard. Read more »
The Apple deal will give Whistle retail reach, while IFTTT will connect the dog activity tracker the wider world of the internet of things. 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 »
Mojio makes a module that plugs into your car’s onboard diagnostic port, bringing cellular connectivity and an application platform along for the ride. It now plans on launching by the end… Read more »
Huawei sees an opportunity in the industrial internet of things, so its buying a U.K. company specializing in sensor and meter networking for a reported $25 million. Read more »