Once a week Future Designs, Inc. rounds up the news that got us talking.
Industry News for the week ending November 13, 2015:
- Aw, shift. Folks are finally getting smart about IoT security (Read: Companies are starting to market branded security software in their IoT-optimized HW solutions).
- In hopes to soothing security woes about the IoT, ARM rolled out 2 solutions aimed to take the industry by storm, TrustZone and mBed. (https://bit.ly/1lkbZYk) via PCWorld.com
- To prove they are serious about things, ARM called their friends at Cadence and said, ‘let’s set the rules.’ Then Tuesday the two announced a new “reference system” is ready for everyone to play by. (https://bit.ly/1Pq8SdW) via Design-Reuse.com
- And, It just might work. Partners like Renesas and Zebra Technologies announced almost simultaneously that they’ve got the goods and their combined platform will keep your data safe all the way to the cloud. (https://bit.ly/1MKOP36) via SemiconductorOnline.com
- Icon Labs announced Tuesday that they, too, have been integrated into the Renesas Synergy Software Platform as well as the R-IN32M3 ICs for Industrial Automation. (https://bit.ly/1MKOP36) via M2MNow.biz
- Here’s what people are connecting to the internet: everything. Gartner predicts, in a report released Tuesday, 5.5 million things will be connected each day in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015. Safe to say this a good place for evaluating anticipated customer needs. (https://gtnr.it/1SIyYXS) via Gartner.com
- Elo, from the other side… of the US. CA-based Elo, the inventor of the touchscreen, announced this week partnership with marketing research management platform, Vya. The two designed EloView™ software for secure, cloud-based content delivery and remote device management platform. The CEO of Vya, John Brokamp, put it this way: “This [will] reinvent in-store shopping and other in-person experiences, bringing those interactions closer to the online experience modern consumers expect.” https://bit.ly/1HK3Z7A via MarketWired.com
- It’s OK to miss real buttons. Bosch won a 2106 CES Innovation Award for an innovative touchscreen featuring a GUI that gives users the sense of pushing buttons. As one author put it, the desire for such technology may have stemmed from users sometimes feeling the urge to, “rage-poke a hole through some indecipherable, unintuitive touchscreen.” (https://bit.ly/1HK3Z7A, https://bit.ly/1RQYdXg) via RoadandTrack.com and Businesswire.com
- Focus. That’s what we want our customer to do and leave the tinkering and tweaking to us. It’s just better than way and here’s why. (https://bit.ly/1Pq7mby) via Embedded-computing.com