Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

The VW Golf and Audi TT share a common platform, as do Chevy and GMC SUVs. The foundations for these automotive platforms are, firstly, cr...

Earlier this week,  Amazon opened its Sidewalk long-range, low-bandwidth network to developers with an offer of free, low-speed data . On t...

Amazon opened 2022 with announcements targeting the smart home community that is forming around the Matter protocol and opportunities for I...

Over the past few years, the World IoT Day movement [1] has drawn considerable attention to the opportunities presented by IoT technologies....

Much has changed over the last 10 years that I have published this annual review of corporate initiatives in the IoT sector. I do not track ...

The analyst firm, Transforma Insights (TI), recently published a report comparing the cloud hyperscalers – Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web...

A couple of recent and seemingly unconnected publications provide food for strategic thought on the topic of IoT platforms.  Platforms are a...

I delivered a presentation some weeks back at an online conference for the managed-services industry. My talk was about the implications of...

IoT Analytics, the German market research firm, recently published a customer satisfaction assessment of IoT platforms [1]. It covers 50 ven...

Compared to previous years, the pace of corporate activity in the IoT arena has settled down. This is to be expected in a maturing market cy...

Corporate activity in the M2M/IoT market continues to grow in line with the roughly 30% growth rate that many market analysts forecast for...

Almost 10 years ago, Amazon formed a team to work on a groundbreaking, highly integrated consumer product. Amazon began with a goal of impro...