Amazon to pay FTC for Ring and Alexa violations; Convergint acquires Ballou; Becklar acquires Eyeforce; and an overview of ESX 2023!

Among its allegations, the Federal Trade Commission said Amazon failed to stop hackers from taking control of users' Ring cameras.

ADT, a provider in smart home and business security, brought an action for willful trademark infringement, unfair competition and related violations against Ring LLC (Ring), an Amazon company and provider of smart home security devices.

Vodafone Business today unveiled a powerful new service, combining the quick response times of distributed Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) technology with the fast speeds of 5G. 

Ring, Amazon’s DIY security offering, has recalled 350,000 video doorbells in the United States, and 8,700 in Canada because of fire concerns.

In his keynote, titled “On the Edge of Transformation: Securing a Connected Future with IoT,” MacKenzie explained the benefits and complexities of IoT, using Amazon’s Webservices IoT strategy as an example.

Last month, I had the unique pleasure of attending the 2020 CES Show in Las Vegas as a part of the Consumer Technology Association’s Media Trailblazers Program.

DIY video surveillance company Ring and parent company Amazon are facing a federal lawsuit that claims the companies have not done enough to protect their products from security attacks.

Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet.