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What can a toothbrush teach us about IoT business models?

SlashData Team

Apr 27, 2016
3 min

Internet of Things

What can a toothbrush teach us about IoT business models?

We recently published a report showing that e-commerce doubled in popularity as a business model for Internet of Things (see Commerce of...

70% of Smart Home developers are hobbyists

SlashData Team

Sep 14, 2015
3 min

Internet of Things

70% of Smart Home developers are hobbyists

1.5 million developers are working on Smart Home solutions. And yet, the Smart Home market is struggling to move beyond early adopters...

SlashData Team

Jun 2, 2015
5 min

Internet of Things

The Commerce of Things

You might be forgiven for thinking that Internet of Things stands for adding apps to a watch, or connecting a thermostat to the internet....

SlashData Team

May 5, 2015
3 min

Internet of Things

Everyone will be a developer

We continue with a fourth and final installment of insights from our most recent publication, IoT Developer Megatrends – a short...

Consumers outweigh the CIO in the Internet of Things

SlashData Team

Apr 20, 2015
3 min

Internet of Things

Consumers outweigh the CIO in the Internet of Things

We continue with insights from our most recent publication, IoT Developer Megatrends – a short publication on the most important trends...

The currency of the Internet of Things is data

SlashData Team

Apr 2, 2015
3 min

Internet of Things

The currency of the Internet of Things is data

In last week’s blog post, we said that IoT is breaking free from Internet and Things. That is, Internet of Things is not about how to add...

What the Internet of Things is NOT about

SlashData Team

Mar 30, 2015
3 min

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What the Internet of Things is NOT about

It seems that if your company doesn’t have an IoT strategy nowadays, you might as well quit. But not just any strategy will do. Let’s...

IoT developers: The baby boomers of the smartphone wars?

SlashData Team

Feb 4, 2015
3 min

Internet of Things

IoT developers: The baby boomers of the smartphone wars?

Internet of Things comes to life thanks to wide availability of inexpensive and powerful hardware components. Chris Anderson, the former...

The kingmakers of the Internet of Things

SlashData Team

Oct 15, 2014
4 min

Internet of Things

The kingmakers of the Internet of Things

[Communities of developers play a key role in shaping the future of Internet of Things. For the first time we have the data to understand...

The 3 key Apple Watch features that nobody talks about. Yet.

SlashData Team

Sep 10, 2014
4 min

Internet of Things

The 3 key Apple Watch features that nobody talks about. Yet.

[If Apple wants to create a new, large product category out of smart watches, they need to create mass-market demand for their new...

The trillion dollar choice for car makers: control or cooperate?

SlashData Team

Jul 9, 2014
8 min

Internet of Things

The trillion dollar choice for car makers: control or cooperate?

[Will the car become little more than a smartphone accessory on wheels? This question is highly relevant after the recent CarPlay and...

SlashData Team

Jun 26, 2014
5 min

Internet of Things

Who will be the iOS and Android of IoT?

[Put together, the announcements at Google I/O and from Apple, Samsung, Nest, Quirky and others in the past weeks paint a crystal clear...

How Samsung enlists developers to make sense of health data

SlashData Team

May 28, 2014
4 min

Internet of Things

How Samsung enlists developers to make sense of health data

Samsung unveiled its vision on mobile health. The company wants to provide the “voice of your body” with two new intiatives: a...

From 4 to 4000 apps: disruption deja-vu in the car industry?

SlashData Team

Apr 14, 2014
3 min

Internet of Things

From 4 to 4000 apps: disruption deja-vu in the car industry?

[What if cars were like mobile phones? There are some eerie similarities between the approaches of car makers in 2014, and operators and...

How We Learned to Built Hardware, the Agile way

SlashData Team

Feb 24, 2014
7 min

Internet of Things

How We Learned to Built Hardware, the Agile way

I ‘m part of a hardware research group at Telefónica Digital called “Physical Internet Lab”. Three years ago we started a small group...

SlashData Team

Feb 4, 2014
3 min

Internet of Things

Will China take the lead in IoT?

In our June 2013 paper “The M2M Ecosystem Recipe” we argued that the Internet of Things is ready for a broad developer ecosystem. We may...

SlashData Team

Oct 1, 2013
2 min

Internet of Things

Are you safe from digital disruption?

Mobile business models are disrupting just about every industry. Mobile carriers felt pretty comfortable, but while they were working on...

5+1 ways to attract Internet of Things developers

SlashData Team

Sep 16, 2013
4 min

Internet of Things

5+1 ways to attract Internet of Things developers

With so much buzz around the Internet of Things, many are wondering what will be the platform on which the IoT ecosystem will be built....

The future of M2M: Eternal Fragmentation or Winner-Takes-All?

SlashData Team

Aug 26, 2013
7 min

Internet of Things

The future of M2M: Eternal Fragmentation or Winner-Takes-All?

[In The M2M Ecosystem Recipe report, which we published in June, we presented some ideas on how the full promise of the...

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