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Connectivity is vital for most modern devices. It’s no longer just for computers, smartphones, or tablets. Televisions, baby monitors, thermostats, medical devices, automobiles and even aircraft are all connected today.

We’re rounding the corner to the end of the year, finally, and everyone’s fingers are crossed hoping 2021 is just as good as 2020 has been awful. Things are getting better already, if you judge by the fact the storm hitting Florida today is just Tropical Storm Eta and not Hurricane Eta.

IoTPlaybook Insight: IoT security always needs more help. Microsoft's Azure Defender for IoT: Agentless Security for OT offers end-to-end security solutions and you can try it for FREE during the public preview.

Learn how to integrate a real-time FreeRTOS application running a timing-sensitive ultrasonic distance sensor with Azure Sphere security.

IotPlaybook Insight: Digital identity management player Sectigo teams up with the embedded firmware analysis folks at ReFirm Labs to help OEMs release safer IoT devices. Too many early products treated security as something to be avoided, leading to many, many sad headlines.

Speaking at the company’s Next Tech online partner conference this week, company executives cited mobile connectivity, tele-medicine, and cybersecurity as three examples of areas where opportunities for partners persist despite the coronavirus.

Results from our latest channel opinion survey suggest that the two defining markets of the decade just ended are fully mature ones as well.

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Short-range communication has gone the distance with Bluetooth