Verizon lights a fire under IoT

The Internet of Things is supposed to reach billions of connected devices in a few years, but that won't happen unless developers and vendors can mount some steep hurdles. On Wednesday, Verizon took steps to clear those away. At an event in San Francisco, the huge U.S. carrier launched ThingSpace, a platform for application development, device management and other tasks required to make IoT offerings a reality. It also laid out plans for a new network core just to handle those connected obj