The deployment of smart meters is fast gaining traction worldwide. According to forecasts published by Machina Research, Europe’s connected energy market will be worth $26 billion alone by 2026 with a potential 158 million new smart meters set to be installed across the continent. While cellular technology presents an attractive connectivity option for smart meter […]
An Overview of Academia & Blockchain
The Importance of Academia By: Wesley Graham and Ronen Kirsh Technological limitations associated with scalability, privacy, and interoperability currently limit much of today’s most important blockchain infrastructure. Many investors believe that the solutions to these limitations will be sourced from the world of academia: home of cutting-edge discoveries and many leading cryptography and distributed systems experts. […]
Physically Unclonable Functions as a Solid Foundation of Platform Security Architecture
Introduction Today, there is general agreement amongst most stakeholders that IoT is not going to take off and reach its full potential unless we come up with a solid approach to securing both the “Things” in IoT and the communication between them. An Arm-led initiative which is specifically relevant to device OEMs and silicon manufacturers […]
Mobile security trends: app containers, app wrapping for BYOD
Is a Cloud-native Strategy Right for You?
A cloud-native approach offers an agile environment enabling organizations to meet ever-increasing customer demands and expectations. This allows companies to grow a product, service, or idea and deploy all these things as quickly as business plans change. Delivering applications at breakneck speed is routine for new-age companies, including Amazon, which releases new code every 11.6 seconds. It […]
Halloween Horrors: Real-Life Scary Stories from the Data Center and Beyond
The end of October means it’s time to start carving pumpkins and picking the perfect Halloween costume. This is also a good time to scare yourself silly with horror stories from your data center. The end user’s ghost haunts us all with innocent mishaps this Hallows Eve. From security oversights to trying to troubleshoot […]
Nasdaq and Microsoft join forces to deliver blockchain services
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies have been an attractive proposition for a lot of traditional technology and financial companies recently and everyone is trying to board the bus in the best way they can. Same has been the case with Microsoft and Nasdaq who are coming together to deliver on the blockchain promise. <![CDATA[ ]]> The partnership […]
South Korea is Building its Blockchain Empire in the Silence Created by Bitcoin’s Stability
While the world is seeking answers for Bitcoin’s stability, prices, regulations, and various other topics, South Korea is slowly carrying advancing to be at the numero uno position as far as blockchain and cryptocurrency are concerned. The investments happening in the sector and the number of traditional companies embracing blockchain is rising in South Korea […]
Alibaba opens its blockchain doors to the rest of the world
While Chinese regulators are cramping the cryptocurrency industry in the country, Alibaba has been pretty optimistic about blockchain technology thanks to its visionary leader Jack Ma. Continuing its support to blockchain now Alibaba has opened doors to rest of the world by offering its blockchain as a service (BaaS) product. <![CDATA[ ]]> Welcome Asia, Europe, […]
Lightning Network Payments Soon Coming to Microsoft Excel
Pierre Rochard is working on an Excel plugin in order to make and receive Lightning Network payments with just a few clicks, further exposing Bitcoin, Blockchain, and crypto industry to a vast audience. <![CDATA[ ]]> Receive & make LN payments on Excel with a few clicks Cryptocurrency sphere is constantly evolving. And soon we might […]