HP Labs has joined the race to build an infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things. The giant computing and IT services company has announced a project that aims to Continue reading »

A subject of interest to us ReadWriteWeb folks this year has been smart grids - a method of delivering electricity to users' homes in a way that has been the Continue reading »

IBM has launched a new product called Returnable Container Management, which uses the Internet of Things to track and measure the usage of shipping containers. These containers are a large, Continue reading »

Today at the IBM Information on Demand event, IBM will demo a new app that will bring the Internet of Things to the iPhone. The as yet unreleased iPhone app Continue reading »

This post is sponsored by IBM's A Smarter Planet blog. Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media ran a panel called Humans As Sensors. With him Continue reading »

Yesterday we analyzed some of the applications being built with Pachube, an open source platform enabling developers to connect sensor data to the Web. We at ReadWriteWeb think that Pachube Continue reading »

Last week we reported that Pachube, an open source platform enabling developers to connect sensor data to the Web, had released a real-time notifications feature. We at ReadWriteWeb think that Continue reading »

Earlier this year we profiled Pachube, (pronounced "PATCH-bay"), a service which stores and shares real-time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments. The uses for Pachube are only beginning Continue reading »

This post is sponsored by IBM's A Smarter Planet blog, where it has also been cross-posted. In recent posts we've looked at three of the world's leading RFID-powered Smart Cards: Continue reading »

This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. So far we've explored these trends: Structured Data, The Real-Time Web, Personalization, Mobile Continue reading »