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Category: Communications

Communications and Networking

  • A Nightmare Bug: Random People Listening In

    A Nightmare Bug: Random People Listening In

    Amazon has apparently had an Echo hiccup of the sort that would give customers bad dreams. It sent a random conversation to a random contact.…

  • Safety and Security Conference

    With the growth of the IoT there is increased interest in the overlapping areas of safety and security. There is already a lot of knowledge…

  • Meet You in Brussels?

    Imec, the Belgian research centre for nanoelectronics has an annual programme of Technology Forums. (Fora?) The European Flagship Forum is scheduled for the end of…

  • A More Secure Time Server

    We would be nowhere without clocks. So much of what we do involves timing, much of which we’re completely unaware of – in particular, electronically.…

  • Fancy walking around with urine in your socks?

    According to a press release from the University of the West of England in Bristol, a team working under Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos has developed socks…

  • Securing the core

    A Franco-German announcement brings improved security to SoCs for the IoT Following Jim Turley’s report on Arm and ARC adding security to their small processor…

  • Four weeks of argument over a second

    Today (November 2nd) the International Telecommunication Union’s World Radiocommunication Conference meets in Geneva. It will run until the 27th and, apparently, during much of that…

  • Single-Radio Zigbee and Thread

    Earlier this year we saw that Zigbee and Thread were collaborating to implement Zigbee profiles or “clusters,” which normally appear at the top of a…

  • The Internet of Lightbulbs

    Based on a solution just announced by CSR (now part of Qualcomm), you can outfit your new building with lights – and your network will…

  • WiFi Three Ways from CEVA

    WiFi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee are vying for primacy, and none of them is likely to disappear anytime soon (if ever). WiFi is the granddaddy, and…