Internet of Things (IoT) blog

The Internet of Things (IoT) is at the peak of the famous Gartner hype cycle. Many things reach that peak then fall off into oblivion. For many months now, I have been looking into the factors that would…

Very fast, very passable this world wide web thing. Well, who'd have thought twenty five years ago we'd be sitting here looking up the news of the day on our search engine of choice, browsing the shops…

中文版 Chinese Version: 面向可穿戴设备的蓝牙技术 Wearable technology certainly made a splash at CES 2014 in Las Vegas. Several industries such as healthcare, sport and fitness, gaming, and even fashion were demonstrating…

A great deal of attention at this January’s OCP Summit was focused upon ARM’s SBSA Server platform standardization announcement.  The importance of the SBSA to the ecosystem and our ARM partners cannot…

It was not that long ago that embedded development meant working on an x86 PC with loads of memory and power hungry CPUs then running a cross-compiler to get code compiled for the target embedded architecture…

It has been a little more than a year ago since I got my Surface RT tablet from the Microsoft BUILD event and I have committed myself to use it as my only computing companion device (other than my smartphone…

Arduino Due, Beaglebone, mbed or Raspberry Pi are just some of the ARM based embedded platforms used for IoT product prototyping. We’ve written this blog to compare the boards.

Sony Mobile started shipping the Smartwatch 2 (SW2) last month. Sony is encouraging developers to get involved in its development community so here are the details of how you can join in.

I particularly like this case study that I found over on edn.com for two reasons; 1) it is nice and detailed and explains the underlying science of a heart monitor that I'd never read before, and 2) I…

LTE (Long Term Evolution) is already gaining momentum as the world’s most rapidly deployed cellular technology, giving mobile wireless broadband services to millions of users worldwide.  Consumers…

For those of you that have met me or heard me speak about the “Internet of Things” (IoT) would know that I normally indicate my displeasure for the term. Don’t get me wrong. I am a firm believer that the…

One of the fun things I find about ARM technology is the way it scales up as well as down. Take for example ARM moving into the Server market space. There is a lot excitement around building new low power…

Rest in Peace Symbian  After 11 years, this is the first quarter when a S60 Symbian phone will not be shipped. Though in its day, Symbian had a very strong fan base with over 75% market share, it has since…

It all started back in 2008, I'd been looking at what the Software Bill-of-Materials would be for an ARM-based Netbook. I'm a great fan of JEOS (Just-Enough-OS) to support the end users software…

I have a confession to make... I started writing this post in November 2011, but in the excitement of the events at the time, I left it unfinished... until today. This morning I stopped at a local supermarket…

On June 29, 2007 -- the original iPhone went on sale and unleashed an unrivaled period of creative innovation and destruction in the mobile phone business.  In case you have forgotten, the original iPhone…

Wouldn't it be great if I could transmogrify the PC to become an intelligent network of specialized components? The goal would be to create a much more efficient computation system marrying critical software…

Since you're reading this blog, it's fairly likely you're technically minded and would've heard of contact-less payment cards. These smart-chip enabled cards promise to speed checkout for…

I've always wanted a Smartphone that can be an abstraction of me. This is driven by my belief that there are people who like writing diaries and those who do not. I've been waiting for a device for…

The 180nm node of today is nothing like the 180nm node of 2004. In fact the market opportunity for the 180nm node is bigger today than at any time in the past.

After the video of my most recent Arm-powered Android LEGO Speedcuber robot became so popular, I thought that it would be a while before I was involved in creating another. I should have learned from previous…