Home automation is not new, but a light bulb socket that lets you manage one light bulb (or more) from the internet is groundbreaking. Or ceiling-breaking, more accurately. Spark Devices has invented ...

He was sitting in a dark prison cell in Mauritius where he was serving a nine-year sentence for smuggling 500 grams of heroin into the country when he had a lightbulb moment: why isn't there one ...

Companies from Google to Comcast to Electric Imp are trying to connect home devices and appliances to the web, but the internet of things remains more of a complicated, distant dream than a reality.