Joe McKendrick

Should businesses use company-wide dashboards with key operational metrics for all employees to see?

Machines that can auto-transact with other machines — a car that pays for its gasoline, for example — aren’t that far off.

It’s not the things that are valuable in the IoT.

Modern marketers must become data-driven detectives.

“Blockchain theoretically enables the car to become a smart asset because it can auto-manage services like auto insurance, lease payments, tolls, parking — even your coffee at Starbucks.”

Will IoT skills and the job market be able to keep up with the explosive growth in IoT?

An IEEE expert sees blockchain uses in supply chain analytics, solar energy trading, and device management.

Blockchain has numerous uses and applications in the IoT, but pressing issues remain with security and trust, as well as scalability.

Remember PKI? Blockchain might go the same way.

Blockchain goes way beyond financial transactions.

An Ericsson report estimates there will be 1.5 billion IoT devices needing cellular connections by 2021.

A deal to make GE’s Predix platform available on Microsoft’s cloud will likely bring industrial IoT applications to even small companies.