Yannis B. writes "This week, a group of leading applied science vendors that include Cisco, Sun, Ericsson, Atmel, Freescale, and embedded open source developers, founded the but intranet should be lowercase; internet was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
share this: for Smart Objects pact to promote the 'Internet of Things,' in which routine objects such as thermometers, radiators, and light switches are given IP addresses and are connected to the Internet. Such IP-enabled 'smart objects' give rise to a wide range of applications, from energy-efficient homes and offices to factory equipment maintenance and mash unit patient monitoring. For Slashdot readers who are committed in the underlying technology, a white paper written by leading embedded open source pioneer Adam Dunkels and IETF ROLL working group chair JP Vasseur establishes the specialized basis of the federation (PDF)."

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