On the same day during the second week in November both Bluetooth and Thread announced major updates and roadmaps for their respective network…
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The AllSeen Alliance changes its IP stance after Iotivity launch
After getting hammered on its intellectual property rights by Intel’s competing Iotivity standards effort, the AllSeen Alliance, which is promoting Qualcomm-backed AllJoyn…
Read MoreIntel’s OIC unveils the IoTivity standard for device discovery
After launching last July with a press release and promises of taking on the problem of device-to-device communication and discovery, the Open…
Read MoreLike those Philips lighting tracks for TV shows? They take time
Philips and the SyFy channel teamed up again to produce a lighting track for a television show — this time a season…
Read MoreIt’s an IoT standards shakeup as Broadcom dumps Intel’s Open Interconnect Consortium
Standards formation is a messy business, and that's proving true for the internet of things, as Broadcom leaves Intel's Open Interconnect Consortium after a disagreement over IP.…
Read MoreThis is a real turn on! The AllSeen Alliance offers a connected lighting standard
Connected lighting may soon become much easier for consumers and third-party developers to play with if a new framework from the AllSeen Alliance becomes popular.…
Read MoreOne day our homes will be smart, but we have a long way to go. Here’s how we’ll get there
The tech world is excited about the smart home, but for most consumers, the idea of paying more for a connected device that doesn’t offer much new functionality and opens them up to risks is a tough sell.…
Read MoreSony commits to the AllSeen Alliance as did Electrolux
The AllSeen Alliance is like train that is picking up steam as it signs Sony as a member on Tuesday after last…
Read MoreAllSeen Alliance nabs Bosch and Revolv as members
The steady drip of new members to the AllSeen Alliance continues. Industrial sensor and consumer appliance maker Bosch, Cloud of Things, home…
Read MoreAll about AllSeen, and a bit about the new Thread radio tech that wants to own the home
This week we are all about internet of things standards and certifications as we welcome the head of the AllSeen Alliance to the show and discuss a new radio certification introduced by Samsung, Nest, ARM and others.…
Read MoreNest and Samsung launch Thread, a wireless mesh standard for the smart home
Does the smart home need a new network? Some really big companies have created Thread, a new standard that aims to supplant Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee as the ideal radio tech for the home.…
Read MoreIntel, Samsung and others create new Qualcomm-free internet of things consortium
It's Tuesday, so here's another standards effort for the internet of things! Intel, Samsung, Broadcom, Atmel and Intel subsidiary Wind River have formed the Open Interconnect Consortium to aid in product discovery and authentication.…
Read MoreMicrosoft joins the AllSeen Alliance as it ramps up connected device efforts
Microsoft is joining the AllSeen Alliance, a group dedicated to creating an open protocol for devices connected to the internet.…
Read MoreSupermechanical has a gizmo to make your dumb oven smart
Replacing dumb kitchen appliances with smarter ones will likely take decades, and given the fights over who will control the home, you may not want to start yet. Here's a retrofit that may help.…
Read MoreHow will your home talk to you? We talked to Sonos to find out.
Sonos is launching its new universal search feature for Android. We discuss that and whole home audio on this week's podcast. You'll learn about different standards, how open Sonos plans to be and a connected speaker hack.…
Read MoreThe AllSeen Alliance adds AT&T, iControl and more as new members
The AllSeen Alliance, which is attempting to build an open platform for connected devices to discover and communicate to one another without…
Read MoreLet’s talk about robots: Google’s Nest acquisition brings AI to the smart home
Google's acquisition of Nest is about energy, the smart home and expanding it's expertise and interest in robots. Why? Because the smart home will be comprised of many robots working together.…
Read MoreCES trend? Multiroom audio. This year, everyone is gunning for Sonos
One of the big trends at CES are internet-connected speakers, and for good reason: Industry pioneer Sonos has seen a lot of attention lately as people are turning from local digital files to cloud music.…
Read MoreThe AllSeen Alliance launches as a standard for the internet of things
Qualcomm has handed its AllJoyn protocol for the internet of things over to the Linux Foundation in hopes of establishing a universal standard. The effort has legs, but still has a ways to go.…
Read MoreQualcomm’s AllJoyn protocol for the internet of things finds a home in LG TVs
Wouldn't it be cool to use any handset to control your TV or to share media around your home? A deal to put Qualcomm's AllJoyn protocol on LG Smart TVs brings that reality closer.…
Read MoreWill the Internet of things turn into a Tower of Babel?
Qualcomm is working to build a common platform to help the devices that make up the internet of things rely on a common standard that will let them communicate with one another.…
Read MoreQualcomm launches AllPlay, an AirPlay competitor for multiroom audio playback
Qualcomm is taking on AirPlay, Sonos and Spotify's Connect platform with its own multi-room audio streaming platform dubbed AllPlay.…
Read MoreQualcomm’s decidedly different plan to connect your devices to the internet of things
Qualcomm doesn't believe that everything in the internet of things should have to connect to the internet, and is building out a peer-to-peer networking platform called AllJoyn to test its theory.…
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