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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has advised on and developed product and service marketing for many businesses and he has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them.

SkyBell HD, the best video doorbell so far

Good video, fast startup, neat design makes the SkyBell HD the best video doorbell so far.

02/14/17

Nanoleaf Aurora: Smart lighting for the nerd set

The Nanoleaf Aurora is smart lighting for the nerd set and integrates with Alexa and Siri but getting it past your non-nerd significant other might be tricky.

02/04/17

The LeEco Le Pro 3 Ecophone; an Android smartphone definitely worth considering

The LeEco Le Pro 3 Ecophone; great performance, fantastic battery life, and a very good price. It's an Android smartphone definitely worth considering.

02/04/17

Internet of Things Messaging, Part 3: Testing Mosquitto

Testing Mosquitto, an MQTT broker that's a good choice for IoT messaging

01/28/17

Internet of Things Messaging, Part 2: The Mosquitto MQTT broker

Getting the free, open source, efficient, and robust Mosquitto MQTT broker up and running

01/24/17

Cluster HAT, the easiest way to build a Raspberry Pi Zero cluster

One Cluster HAT, four Raspberry Pi Zeros, and one controller Raspberry Pi, and for under $100 you have a working cluster.

01/20/17

Slideshow

10 amazing Raspberry Pi clusters

In this round up we have 10 Raspberry Pi clusters ranging from tiny, four node systems all the way up to 250 nodes behemoths. These clusters are being used for everything from teaching through to simulating massive IoT networks to...

01/12/17

The Rosie Pattern Language, a better way to mine your data

Goodbye regex, hello Rosie Pattern Language, a better way to mine your data.

01/03/17

PIXEL, the latest Raspberry Pi OS ... for x86!

Merry Pi-mas! Santa's got your present: PIXEL, a highly modified version of x86 Debian from the RPi Foundation that will (eventually) run on everything. You must have been good.

12/30/16

Slideshow

10 hot chatbot builders

Chatbots are taking over! These platforms are where your ‘bot gets started.

12/23/16

Slideshow

10 hot Cascading Style Sheet Libraries (Collection 1)

Here’s our first collection of amazing CSS libraries that will take your web content to the next level.

12/15/16

New OS X Tools for Photographers

The OS X apps in this review make creating the perfect photo a whole lot easier

12/15/16

The Ring Stick Up Cam. Don't bother.

Ring's new Stick Up Cam isn't worth buying and technical and support problems with the original Ring doorbell have led me to downgrade the doorbell's original rating

12/13/16