A new Android app called Nearby Glasses alerts users if someone nearby is likely wearing camera-equipped smart glasses, such as…
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Apple-led Car Connectivity Consortium outlines future of vehicle access with digital key
The Apple-led Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) today announced that its Digital Key Release 3.0 White Paper – “The Future of Vehicle Access”…
Apple CarKey will soon work with your iPhone in your pocket
With Apple CarKey, you can add car keys to the Wallet app, use your iPhone or Apple Watch to unlock and start your car, and share your key…
Apple’s AirDrop and password sharing features can leak iPhone numbers
The information disclosed may not be a big deal in many settings, such as work places where everyone knows everyone anyway, but it may be creepier in public places…
Bluetooth SIG announces mesh networking capability, ideally suited for IoT solutions
The new mesh capability enables many-to-many (m:m) device communications and is optimized for creating large-scale device networks…
Apple’s iBeacon so far fails to ignite retail revolution, won’t be big this Black Friday either
The launch of iBeacon two years ago was supposed to change shopping. What happened?
Apple iBeacon finds its way into McDonald’s and sandwich sales increase
Ever since iBeacon made its debut on the iPhone in 2013…
So, what’s going on with Apple’s iBeacon tech?
Apple continues to disrupt consumer culture…
Apple TV continues to evolve as a smart home hub
Apple sold more than $1 billion Apple TVs in 2013…
Latest Apple TV update enables remote access relay for HomeKit connected accessories
Apple has much hidden up their collective sleeve…
Apple’s iBeacon: So many opt-out choices, or are there?
here has been a lot of good coverage of Apple’s new iBeacon…
Apple TV gets HomeKit support, now armed and ready to be the hub for the smart home
Apple is getting close to rolling out its smart home plans in a big way…
Estimote makes ‘Nearables’ – iBeacon stickers you can stick on anything
Estimote makes iBeacons in little polygon shapes with cool colors and custom designs…
Apple and the omnichannel: 9 industries already using Apple’s iBeacon
Apple’s quiet introduction of iBeacon is shaping up to be a foundational release…
Hudson’s Bay and Lord & Taylor roll out Apple’s iBeacon tech across North America
Apple’s iBeacon technology delivers targeted content and offers to consumers…
inMarket: iBeacon increases in-store app usage, retention, and brand engagement
The first public stats about iBeacon impact on the shopping experience
Google wants in on Apple Inc.’s iBeacon party
Over the past year, Apple’s iBeacon has gained a lot of media attention…
Apple expected fully unveil iBeacon plans at WWDC today
Apple Inc.’s latest product to carry the ‘i’ prefix…
GE integrates iBeacon into new LED light fixtures, Walmart installing in stores worldwide
Up until now most retailers have been deploying Apple’s iBeacon technology…
Walgreens and Walmart testing iBeacon, Motorola Solutions launches iBeacon marketing platform
Walgreens-owned drugstore chain Duane Reade announced today…
Virgin Atlantic trials Apple iBeacon tech for iPhone users at London Heathrow Airport
Virgin Atlantic has chosen London Heathrow Airport to be the first airport in the world…
New York City bars to use Apple’s iBeacon for pub crawl promo
Companies continue to find new and interesting ways of implementing Apple’s iBeacon tech…
New sunglasses with iBeacon notify you when lost, act as beacons in retail
The first set of eye glasses with embedded iBeacon technology…
Privacy-sensitive Germans not biting into Apple’s iBeacon, yet
Since revelations that the U.S. spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone…
Not For Commerce: As Apple declines support, more retailers drop NFC
Apple’s refusal to support NFC on the iPhone…
Apple’s iBeacon: With great power comes great potential to delight or annoy
With the release of iOS 7.1 Apple made a tweak to a technology called iBeacon…
Why aren’t people freaking out about Apple’s iBeacon?
The new iOS 7.1, which Apple launched this week, contained massively-improved iBeacon…
Apple’s iOS 7.1 delivers major, game-changing iBeacon improvement
A major, game-changing improvement to iBeacon…
How advertisers can use your personal info to get you to pay higher prices
Imagine that you are halfway through the second week of a grueling diet…
Apple’s iBeacon and the future of retail store shopping
Mobile, mobile, mobile. It’s like the Marcia Brady of the retail industry…
Apple’s revolutionary iBeacon: Sometimes the biggest changes in technology have the smallest beginnings
In the summer of 2013, Apple announced iBeacon…
Company rolls out Apple’s iBeacon to grocery stores
Pretty soon, your iPhone might remind you to pick up laundry detergent…
Anybody else want an Apple ‘iServe home’ server with iBeacon accessories?
Apple has started iBeacon activations…
The Internet of iThings: Apple’s iBeacon already in 200 million iPhones and iPads
iBeacon is the most important new feature in iOS 7…
4 reasons why Apple’s iBeacon is about to disrupt interaction design
You step inside Walmart and your shopping list is transformed…
Apple’s revolutionary iWallet is coming
This week, Apple unveiled the first large-scale integration of iBeacon…
Apple could have 250 million iBeacon-capable units in the wild by 2014
Yesterday, Apple began a small press push on its new iBeacon technology…
Apple turns on iBeacon to guide shoppers at 254 U.S. retail stores
Apple Inc. will begin using the technology at its 254 U.S. stores to send you…
Bar deploys Apple’s iBeacon to give patrons free access to Newsstand magazines
Beacon, Apple’s hyperlocal trigger tech in iOS 7…
Apple patent filing reveals Bluetooth-based wireless hotspot tech; perfect for ‘iWatch’
An Apple patent filing published on Thursday…
Apple’s location-tracking iBeacon is poised to explode across retail faster than anyone can imagine
Embedded in Apple’s iOS 7’s flashier interface and multitasking features…
iOS 7 users: Apple’s secret retail weapon is already in your pocket
It’s been a month since Apple unleashed iOS 7 onto the world…
