The issue focused on how the businesses would expand their service offerings beyond email, the Internet, and apps to connect to the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile phones, and social networks. We learn what connected devices we could purchase, what data we would need, and how many of these devices would cost.


Connected devices have been hyped as allowing consumers to live much more digitally connected, but Google and Microsoft are only now releasing standards on their new platforms for networks of devices called Internet of