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What can a toothbrush teach us about IoT business models?
We recently published a report showing that e-commerce doubled in popularity as a business model for Internet of Things (see Commerce of...
SlashData Team
Apr 27, 20163 min read


70% of Smart Home developers are hobbyists
1.5 million developers are working on Smart Home solutions. And yet, the Smart Home market is struggling to move beyond early adopters...
SlashData Team
Sep 14, 20153 min read


The Commerce of Things
You might be forgiven for thinking that Internet of Things stands for adding apps to a watch, or connecting a thermostat to the internet....
SlashData Team
Jun 2, 20155 min read

Everyone will be a developer
We continue with a fourth and final installment of insights from our most recent publication, IoT Developer Megatrends – a short...
SlashData Team
May 5, 20153 min read

Consumers outweigh the CIO in the Internet of Things
We continue with insights from our most recent publication, IoT Developer Megatrends – a short publication on the most important trends...
SlashData Team
Apr 20, 20153 min read

The currency of the Internet of Things is data
In last week’s blog post, we said that IoT is breaking free from Internet and Things. That is, Internet of Things is not about how to add...
SlashData Team
Apr 2, 20153 min read

What the Internet of Things is NOT about
It seems that if your company doesn’t have an IoT strategy nowadays, you might as well quit. But not just any strategy will do. Let’s...
SlashData Team
Mar 30, 20153 min read

IoT developers: The baby boomers of the smartphone wars?
Internet of Things comes to life thanks to wide availability of inexpensive and powerful hardware components. Chris Anderson, the former...
SlashData Team
Feb 4, 20153 min read

The kingmakers of the Internet of Things
[Communities of developers play a key role in shaping the future of Internet of Things. For the first time we have the data to understand...
SlashData Team
Oct 15, 20144 min read


The 3 key Apple Watch features that nobody talks about. Yet.
[If Apple wants to create a new, large product category out of smart watches, they need to create mass-market demand for their new...
SlashData Team
Sep 10, 20144 min read

The trillion dollar choice for car makers: control or cooperate?
[Will the car become little more than a smartphone accessory on wheels? This question is highly relevant after the recent CarPlay and...
SlashData Team
Jul 9, 20148 min read

Who will be the iOS and Android of IoT?
[Put together, the announcements at Google I/O and from Apple, Samsung, Nest, Quirky and others in the past weeks paint a crystal clear...
SlashData Team
Jun 26, 20145 min read


How Samsung enlists developers to make sense of health data
Samsung unveiled its vision on mobile health. The company wants to provide the “voice of your body” with two new intiatives: a...
SlashData Team
May 28, 20144 min read

From 4 to 4000 apps: disruption deja-vu in the car industry?
[What if cars were like mobile phones? There are some eerie similarities between the approaches of car makers in 2014, and operators and...
SlashData Team
Apr 14, 20143 min read

How We Learned to Built Hardware, the Agile way
I ‘m part of a hardware research group at Telefónica Digital called “Physical Internet Lab”. Three years ago we started a small group...
SlashData Team
Feb 24, 20147 min read

Will China take the lead in IoT?
In our June 2013 paper “The M2M Ecosystem Recipe” we argued that the Internet of Things is ready for a broad developer ecosystem. We may...
SlashData Team
Feb 4, 20143 min read


Are you safe from digital disruption?
Mobile business models are disrupting just about every industry. Mobile carriers felt pretty comfortable, but while they were working on...
SlashData Team
Oct 1, 20132 min read


5+1 ways to attract Internet of Things developers
With so much buzz around the Internet of Things, many are wondering what will be the platform on which the IoT ecosystem will be built....
SlashData Team
Sep 16, 20134 min read

The future of M2M: Eternal Fragmentation or Winner-Takes-All?
[In The M2M Ecosystem Recipe report, which we published in June, we presented some ideas on how the full promise of the...
SlashData Team
Aug 26, 20137 min read
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