Marc Naddell is VP of Ecosystems at MediaTek, one of the leading chipset manufacturers behind the IoT ecosystem. He came to the ReadWrite office to sit with Christopher Caen and talk about how one of the leading chipset providers in the industry managed to get ahead of the hardware curve in developing for IoT. “We looked at the potential for IoT and realized it’s either going to be huge, or it’s going to be really huge

Following the Department of Transportation’s timid self-driving regulations, California governor Jerry Brown has greenlit a bill that provides driverless cars with a zone to test without the need for a steering wheel, brake or accelerate pedal, or human test driver. The new rules are filled with restrictions to avoid Google and Tesla pushing fully autonomous cars throughout California. The cars can only drive in designated areas, must have a top speed of 35mph, and must be insured for $5 million to drive on public roads

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is a pretty frothy space these days. Chief among the foam-makers are new network providers of what is broadly known as LPWANs, which are a category of new, low bandwidth connectivity solutions marketed as optimized for IoT. I think these claims can be disputed by taking a look at how similar technology has fared in the past