Category: IOT
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Are You Willing to Pay More for 5G Wireless Service?
5G is coming soon to a neighborhood near you. As telecoms build out their 5G networks and start to look at services, the Wall Street Journal reports that it will likely cost you more. The cost to build out 5G nationwide is enormous. Companies are spending billions. 5G waves don’t…
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The Biggest Traffic Hogs on the Internet
Video now makes up half of all internet traffic, according to research from Sandvine (a bandwidth management company). Netflix alone accounts for 15% and YouTube 11.4%. General web browsing makes up 7.8% and embedded video on websites was 13.1%. In total, video was 58% of downstream traffic. Web browsing was…
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Listen to Google Duplex AI calling a hair salon and make an appointment
This is truly mind-blowing sci-fi stuff. If you haven’t heard Google Duplex yet, get ready to be impressed. Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, wowed the crowd at I/O 2018 when he played back recordings of phone calls made by Google Assistant to book restaurant reservations and make hair appointments. You tell…
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Amazon moves causes Best Buy to lose $1 billion in market cap overnight
Recode reports that Amazon has been hiring folks to provide in-home installations for electronics and smart home devices. The operation is up and running in 7 markets so far. Smart home gadgets are selling, but Amazon reports higher than normal return rates, in part because they can be tough to…
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A virtual explosion of internet-connected devices in homes
If you believe the new study from Parks Associates, there is a virtual explosion of connected devices going into consumer’s homes over the next few years. Analysts predict more than 442 million connected consumer devices will be sold in the U.S. in 2020. These sales totals include connected entertainment, mobile,…
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