Internet of Things at home: Why we should pay attention

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	The Internet of Things at home: Why we should pay attention The Internet of Things is producing a lot of interesting consumer products that have the potential to lead to important enterprise tools. Here is a basic overview of the concept, together with examples of available products and what they offer. Read More In this Issue Google terminates Quickoffice apps on Android, iOS The Internet of Things at home: 14 smart products compared The Internet of Things at home: 14 smart products that could change your life Microsoft to shutter security notification service Why Android Wear is the new iPad Aereo to "pause" service after Supreme Court defeat Gartner cuts 2014 IT spending growth forecast Google agitates for a revolution in Web development California removes ban on alternative currencies Michael Horowitz: Comcast XFINITY WiFi: Just say no Richi Jennings: Mood experiment helps Facebook innovate a new way to creep-out users WHITE PAPER: Medhost Improve care delivery and performance MEDHOST YourCareCommunity is built on prevailing industry standards, making it vendor-agnostic, and as an SaaS-based solution, no hardware or software needs to be installed at the Customer site. Learn More Google terminates Quickoffice apps on Android, iOS As Google last week introduced new features for its online and Android productivity apps, it also quietly announced that it has halted development on Quickoffice and would soon pull the free software from the Google Play and Apple App Store. Read More The Internet of Things at home: 14 smart products compared What can Internet of Things products bring to your home? Here are the features offered by 14 of the major vendors. Read More The Internet of Things at home: 14 smart products that could change your life The Internet of Things is changing simple homes into smart homes, where everything from your lights to your locks can be controlled from your smartphone. Here are a few products that can help you get started. Read More Microsoft to shutter security notification service Microsoft will shut down its email notification service for security warnings on Tuesday, telling IT and security administrators that they should instead subscribe to RSS feeds from the firm. Read More Why Android Wear is the new iPad Columnist Mike Elgan tested a smartwatch with Android Wear and said he has experienced a culture-changing platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Introducing IBM FlashSystem For your business to gain actionable insight from data and transform it into competitive advantage, your data driven applications must operate at high availability and peak performance. IBM flash delivers extreme performance to derive measurable economic value across the data architecture -- servers, software, applications and storage. View Now Aereo to "pause" service after Supreme Court defeat Following Wednesday's adverse Supreme Court decision, Aereo will suspend its online service, which lets its subscribers watch "over the air" broadcast television via the Web. Read More Gartner cuts 2014 IT spending growth forecast IT research firm Gartner has cut its forecast for global IT spending by about one-third for this year, blaming a tougher competitive environment and subsequent pressure on vendors to lower prices. Read More Google agitates for a revolution in Web development  At the Google I/O conference last week week, the company vigorously lobbied developers to adopt a new programming model, one that could, the company asserted, make it radically easier to build Web applications. Read More California removes ban on alternative currencies A new California law removes a ban on using currencies other than the U.S. dollar, which is intended to accommodate the growing use of alternative payment methods such as bitcoin. Read More     Michael Horowitz: Comcast XFINITY WiFi: Just say no By the end of 2014, Comcast hopes to have enabled 8 million quasi-public XFINITY WiFi hotspots. Many hotspots will run off the home routers of Comcast customers (look for a network called xfinitywifi). Here I offer a very long list of security issues with XFINITY WiFi. It is far more dangerous than people are aware of. Read More Richi Jennings: Mood experiment helps Facebook innovate a new way to creep-out users Zuck pegs our creep-out meters. Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) exceeding expectations once again -- has managed the impossible -- discovering how to creep-out: clowns, possessed toys, and that person you know that never blinks -- all at the same time. How? The social media company recently allowed a team of psychology researchers to validate a theory that happy and sad emotions can spread like a contagion on social networks. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers have had enough social media to last a lifetime. Read More
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