Most of you know that motor vehicles manufactured since the mid-1990s contain onboard black boxes that not only provide system diagnostics for service technicians, but record data about your day-to-day use of the vehicle. You might compare it to the black box that investigators always try to recover in the wake of an airplane crash. They want […]

I don’t know if I was surprised or not when I heard that Google was buying Nest Labs, a maker of connected home thermostats and smoke detectors. Sure, I suppose some believed that Nest Labs would have been a more suitable acquisition target for Apple since the founder, Tony Fadell, was the “father” of the […]