Redmond-based RBC Signals has made a strategic agreement with one of the world’s biggest satellite operators, Inmarsat, to put more networking firepower into its range of Internet of Things applications… Read More
Amazon devices such as Ring cameras and Echo speakers will automatically opt-in to Amazon Sidewalk starting Tuesday, raising concerns from some privacy experts and politicians. Amazon Sidewalk is a shared… Read More
Kymeta Corp. — the hybrid connectivity venture that’s based in Redmond, Wash. — says it has demonstrated how its flat-panel antenna can hook up with Kepler Communications’ satellite constellation for… Read More
Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm is participating in a $19.3 million Series B funding round for Myriota, an Australian startup that’s building a satellite constellation for the Internet of Things.… Read More
For most people, citywide weather forecasts are precise enough for knowing whether to grab a raincoat or shed some extra layers of clothes. But for farmers, climate conditions that shape… Read More
Post updated at 6 p.m. on Dec. 29. Seattle-area startup Wyze, a provider of home video cameras and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices, announced on Dec. 26 that it… Read More
— Do you ever get so frustrated with your smartphone that you want to chuck it out the window, but realize how disconnected you would be to the rest of… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — We’re standing inside what appears to be a normal living room, with a couch and a large-screen TV, when one of our hosts pushes on an otherwise… Read More
Microsoft today announced a series of new Internet of Things tools and features to make it easier for customers to build connected devices and run them on the tech giant’s… Read More
IOTAS, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that helps landlords install and manage smart home devices, has raised $8.5 million. The Series A investment round was led by TELUS Ventures along with… Read More
The quality of local startups in a region can often indicate the future of a tech ecosystem. To find out what the future may have in store for the Pacific… Read More
The elevator is really humming now, as we’ve reached the third episode in the latest season of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch, the show in which entrepreneurs use a 32-second ride to… Read More
Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things is forecasted to reach $745 billion this year and surpass $1 trillion by 2022 as consumers and businesses use an increasing number of… Read More
— Video games tend to take center stage in the gaming world today, but classic tabletop competition is still one of the best ways to get people to socialize and… Read More
The devices that make up the internet of things require a different approach to computing, which is one of the reasons why Microsoft just agreed to acquire a company known… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tens of billions of devices, ranging from coffee makers to cars to spacecraft, could someday be connected to global networks thanks to what’s known as the Internet of… Read More
Medical data startup Sentinel Healthcare has raised $2 million in funding round led by PSL Ventures, Pioneer Square Lab’s investment arm. The company is up and running with a platform that… Read More
A year after making a $900,000 mistake, Swarm Technologies is raking in $25 million in a funding round aimed at getting a constellation of sandwich-sized satellites up and running for… Read More
Bees with tiny electronic devices on their backs could sound like a researcher’s dream come true, or like a science-fiction novelist’s nightmare come true. Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor at… Read More
For years, computer industry leaders have been talking about creating a seal of approval that would assure consumers that their connected devices would be safe to use on the Internet… Read More
Microsoft’s emphasis on the industrial internet of things this year has produced a new service that will let customers create digital models of physical spaces, which the company thinks will… Read More
I have three Amazon Echo Dot devices in my home, which is kind of an ironic admission to make at the start of a rant about new devices from the… Read More
Now that the internet of things is really a thing, Google plans to release a version of its machine-learning chips designed for the tight spaces and power constraints of edge… Read More
There’s a land grab underway as the industrial internet of things continues to shift from thought experiment to technology deployment, and a Seattle startup working on a container-based method for… Read More
Microsoft is doubling down on its Internet of Things operating system, showing a new set of services designed to support connected devices and the companies that make them. At Computex… Read More
As Microsoft leans into its focus this year on cloud services for the internet of things, it’s introducing new platform services that will let companies setting up or operating smart… Read More
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Microsoft’s rebranding of the internet of things as “the intelligent edge” is arguably an improvement over the original moniker, but it will take more than a clever name to capture… Read More
Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm has made its first investment outside the U.S., as part of a $15 million Series A funding round for an Australian satellite-based IoT startup called… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Larry Arnstein, a former Impinj business and marketing executive who is now an entrepreneur in residence at the Intellectual Ventures Invention Science Fund.] A… Read More