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Matter has gone from a handful of devices to more than 750 listed products in three years, yet the people who actually buy smart home gear still hit walls that the standard was supposed to remove. The Connectivity Standards Alliance's…
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Ceva, Inc. retained the top spot in wireless interface IP in IPnest's September 2026 Design IP report, holding roughly 68% market share by revenue. That is twelve times the share of the next-largest vendor, in a category that grew about…
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The number of connected IoT devices reached 21.1 billion in 2025, a 13 percent jump from the year before, according to IoT Analytics' State of Enterprise IoT 2026 report. That figure works out to roughly three connected devices for every…
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The Internet of Things has spent the last decade piling devices into homes and offices. The next phase is different: 21.1 billion connected devices were online at the end of 2025, up 13 percent year-over-year, according to IoT Analytics…
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A software flaw first disclosed in 2002 was still shipping inside a home security camera sold in 2026, and nobody along the supply chain noticed. Finite State, a firmware security firm, found CVE-2002-1819 buried in the Wansview WVC Q5, a…
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The Internet of Things has moved past the phase of simply adding more connected gadgets. According to NXP Semiconductors wireless product marketer Charlie Ice, the next wave of IoT growth in 2026 will focus on making homes and buildings…
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The Connectivity Standards Alliance spent 2025 adding device types to Matter, but the question for 2026 is less about what the spec covers and more about whether the products actually work together once they leave the lab. Matter is the…
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Two announcements late in October 2026 show that the Internet of Things does not belong to one standard or one geography alone. On October 13, Apple announced the Apple Home Collection, a new product lineup of smart cameras, thermostats…
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The average home now runs 24 connected devices, and most of them are running on borrowed time. NETGEAR and Bitdefender's 2026 IoT Security Landscape Report, built from anonymized data covering about 10.4 million homes between January and…
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The Connectivity Standards Alliance announced Matter 1.6 and Product Security 1.1 in June 2026, opening the second day of its annual Unify event with changes aimed squarely at the part of the smart home nobody enjoys: adding a new device…
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The smart home market in 2026 looks less like a revolution and more like a sorting-out. PCMag's June 2026 update to its best smart home devices list still puts the Aqara Camera Hub G5 Pro at the top of outdoor security picks, at $179.99…
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The European Union's NIS2 directive enters its enforcement phase in 2026, and IoT vendors are scrambling to meet new requirements for network segmentation, encryption, and incident reporting. The directive demands early warning…