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"Internet of Things" (IoT) is the grand catchphrase for network-enabling everyday objects and leveraging the new connectivity to collect information from the devices, allowing network-side control, and supplying information to those objects that allows them to do new tricks – like telling a toaster about the day's weather forecast so that it can burn a sun or a cloud into your morning slice of bread.

The opportunities and the use-cases in this space are...

Service Bus Notification Hubs are a brand new intrinsic feature of Windows Azure Service Bus and are different from other push notification services in four key areas:

• Complete client registration management. Your backend application (if you even have one) does not need to worry at all about device-ids or channels or other particulars of push notifications and doesn't need to cooperate in management. It...