News: Solutions & Services
Samsung Acquires SmartThings for IOT
14 August – Today SmartThings, an internet of things (IOT) company focusing on the smart home market, announced that it was acquired by Samsung . SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson announced the news in a post in which he stated that SmartThings will cont...
Ericsson Acquires MetraTech to Accelerate Cloud, Enterprise Billing and IOT Capabilities
29 July 2014 - Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire US-based MetraTech Corp., a provider of metadata-based billing, commerce and settlement solutions uniquely adaptable to multiple business models and industri...
PTC to Acquire Axeda for Internet of Things Expansion
23 July 2014 – PTC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Axeda Corporation, a pioneer in the development of solutions to securely connect machines and sensors to the cloud, for approximately $170 million in cash....
Samsung Joins Nest, ARM, Freescale and others to Form Thread Group
July 15th, 2014 |
Industries & Applications, All IOT News, Building Management, Consumer-Home, Development, Standards & Consortia
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15 uly 2014 - Seven companies today announced that they've joined forces to form the Thread Group and develop Thread, a new IP-based wireless networking protocol for the home. The charter of the Thread Group is to guide the adoption of the Thread prot...
ThingWorx Delivers Advanced Software Platform for Global, Distributed Internet of Things Deployments
June 16th, 2014 |
Solutions & Services, All IOT News, Cloud Services, Development, IOT Platforms
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16 June 2014 - ThingWorx™, a PTC (Nasdaq:PTC) business and leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, today announced the availability of ThingWorx® Platform v5.0. ThingWorx was the first software platform designed to build and run the applica...
Sequans Introduces Colibri LTE Platform for the Internet of Things
11 June 2014 – Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) today introduced the newest member of its StreamliteLTE™ family of chipset solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT). The Colibri LTE Platform comprises Sequans’ latest baseband and RF chips (...
Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce Wear
June 10th, 2014 |
Solutions & Services, All IOT News, Cloud Services, Development, IOT Platforms, Wearables
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10 June 2014 – Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), a leading CRM platform provider, today launched Salesforce Wear, ab industry initiative for wearable computing in the enterprise. The company also launched the new Salesforce Wear Developer Pack, empowering d...
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel Form Industrial Internet Consortium
March 27th, 2014 |
Industries & Applications, Solutions & Services, All IOT News, Industrial Automation, Standards & Consortia
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27 March 2014 - AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel today announced the formation of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an open membership group focused on breaking down the barriers of technology silos to support better access to big data with impr...
Delphian Systems Eliminates Security Holes in Connected Home Applications
March 4th, 2014 |
Industries & Applications, Solutions & Services, All IOT News, Consumer-Home, Safety & Security
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4 March 2014 - Delphian Systems, a leading wireless engineering firm, today announced enhanced security features to its SecuRemote® technology platform. The advanced encryption and authorization methods are designed to mitigate the security risks in co...
PTC Acquires Leading Internet of Things Platform Provider ThingWorx
30 December 2013 - PTC (Nasdaq: PTC) today announced it has acquired ThingWorx, creators of an award-winning platform for building and running applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), for approximately $112 million, plus a possible earn-out of up to...
