As we segue from spring to summer, spring has turned out to be typical as the Golden State Warriors are favorites to win the NBA Championship, and storms and tornadoes pound middle America from the plain states and flood states downstream.

We heard great wailing and gnashing of teeth from the geek community this week, as both The Big Bang Theory and Game of Thrones ended their original content television runs. The label of “series finale” always sounds so, well, final, doesn’t it?

Get familiar with the Arduino IoT Cloud and take your first steps into the world of connected objects.

Yes, it’s Thanksgiving week in the U.S., which means cheap TVs for sale on Friday. And, of course, giving thanks for the family and friends who invade your house and make fun of your current TV while switching to the football game they want to watch.

Have you rigged up dancing witches and staggering zombies to scare trick or treaters with IoT motion detectors for Halloween yet? How about a candy-cam over the bowl to catch your spouse dipping into the stash? No? Just wait a year or two, and these things will be on the market.

The Internet of Things cuts a wide swath across many applications and technologies. Newcomers should focus on one, simple solution to get their feet wet.

To produce real cost savings and productivity gains, smart office solutions must integrate seemingly disparate IoT systems.

Spring flows into summer as attendees flow into conferences and user group meetings. Both (conferences and user group meetings, not spring and summer) are filled with news that flies by quickly. So let’s adjust our IoT news net and grab a few more interesting stories we missed last week.

Microsoft made IoT news, as did Africa, Comcast, and even Nokia (yeah, those phone guys from back in the day). Catch up with us and start tracking some of your favorite IoT news.