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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 This has had a ripple effect through the market.”.

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Applications and innovations in the Internet of Things (IoT)

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated devices that have unique identifiers and can autonomously transfer data over a network. IoT ecosystems consist of internet-enabled smart devices that have integrated sensors, processors, and communication hardware to capture, analyze, and send data from their immediate environments.

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SupPlant is an Internet of Trees solution dramatically reducing irrigation needs for thirsty crops

TechCrunch

Agtech startup SupPlant ‘s flagship product is, essentially, a Babel fish for plants: leveraging a set of hardware sensors, the plants can tell you whether they’ve been drinking enough water, or whether they could do with an additional sip or two. The hardware will be an enabler for that,” explains Ner.

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How to expose events to third parties on the public internet

Xebia

Server-Sent Events are a great way to expose events to trusted third parties over the public internet. In this blog we will explore five ways to expose your existing messaging middleware to the internet: direct, polling, websockets, webhooks and server-sent events. Direct connection. Websockets. figure out why. security measures.

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Indian electronics and lifestyle brand Boat raises $100 million from Warburg Pincus

TechCrunch

Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second-largest internet market. There aren’t many hardware startups in India. and AirPod-like earbuds at $27.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

TechCrunch

There’s no escaping SPACs for a bit, so if you are tired of watching blind pools rip private companies into the public markets, you are not going to have a very good next few months. There are nearly 300 SPACs in the market today looking for deals, and many will find one. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Is it SaaS, IaaS, or NaaS?

CIO

SaaS spans a variety of internet-based applications every day, with popular CRM tools like Salesforce and HR apps like Workday, representing good examples of this. networking hardware, software, and services) delivered in a “cloud-like” motion, which implies subscription-based or consumption-based billing. Networking