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Retailers to Spend $2.5 Billion on Internet of Things by 2020
Retailers seeking to capitalise on Internet of Things technologies will spend an estimated $2.5 billion in hardware and installation costs, nearly a fourfold increase over this year’s estimated $670 million spend.
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This guy's light bulb performed a DoS attack on his entire smart house
The challenge of being a futurist pioneer is being Patient Zero for the future’s headaches. In 2009, Raul Rojas, a computer science professor at the Free University of Berlin (and a robot soccer team coach), built one of Germany’s first “smart homes.” Everything in the house was connected to the Internet so that lights, music, television, heating and cooling could all be turned on and off from afar. Even the stove, oven, and microwave could be turned off with Rojas’s computer...
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Angela Merkel argues against net neutrality, calls for special access fast lane
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has laid out her vision for the future of the internet, and net neutrality proponents won't be pleased. In comments on Thursday in Berlin, Merkel argued for a two-lane internet. One lane for "special," high priority service, and another that's meant to resemble the internet as it exists today.
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The 'Internet Of Things' Will Be Bigger Than The Smartphone, Tablet, And PC Markets Combined
The numbers being forecast for the Internet of Things (IoT) are truly mind-boggling. BI Intelligence finds that the number of everyday and enterprise devices that will soon be connected to the Internet — from parking meters to home thermostats — will be huge.
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Even Toilets Aren’t Safe as Hackers Target Home Devices
Come home to a hot iron and smoldering clothes this afternoon? Soon, it may not be a sign of forgetfulness, but rather evidence that you’ve been hacked.
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Needy robotic toaster sells itself if neglected
A glimpse into a bizarro near-future, one where the internet of things leads not to harmoniously interconnected gadgets but rather a house full of junkies.
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