Mellisa Tolentino

Mellisa Tolentino started at SiliconANGLE covering the mobile and social scene. Over the years, her scope expanded to Bitcoin as well as the Internet of Things. SiliconANGLE gave Mellisa her break in writing and it has been an adventure ever since. She’s from the sunny country of Philippines where people always greet you with the warmest smile. If she’s not busy writing, she loves reading, watching TV series and movies, but what she enjoys the most is playing or just chilling on the couch with with her three dogs Ceecee, Ginger, and Rocky.

Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

Smart home pride in Utah: Vivint renames Jazz stadium with automation, security updates to come

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

The Utah Jazz will no longer call the EnergySolutions Arena as their home court, not because they have changed courts, but because the sports complex is now named the Vivint Smart Home Arena. Yes, the home automation, security and monitoring company Vivint, Inc., …

Cute names, serious security: Newest smart home cameras with IFTTT

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

There are two new smart security cameras that have recently debuted on Kickstarter PBC, and both are getting a lot of attention for very different reasons. One is touted as a truly autonomous smart home security system while the other one looks …

Smart homes in the cloud: Icontrol kills DevOps barriers to entry

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

According to a recent report on the state of the smart home by Icontrol Network, Inc., one of the most significant barriers to smart home adoption is interoperability. To address this issue, Icontrol announced that it is expanding its ecosystem of available …

What you missed in the Smart World: Security in smart lights

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

If you’re looking for a new home, you might be interested in a checklist for the latest in smart home security. There’s also a new smart light that will help keep you safe in times of emergencies. Lastly, the wearable market gets a …

Checklist: New homes require smarter security in connected world

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

A smart home checklist for new home hunters looks to keep you secure in the new age of connected devices. Buying a new home? You might be looking for a place with two full baths, a master bedroom, a walk-in closet, two extra …

We’ll survive this drought: $36b going to smart water infrastructure

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

The drought in California is one of the worst the state has experienced in history, and it doesn’t look like things are going to get better any time soon. The thing is, California is not the only state, or even country experiencing …

Creepy IoT: 3 ways to automate Halloween

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

Halloween is a prime holiday for tinkerers, creating spooky effects and haunted lighting through automated solutions. As more connected devices and services hit the consumer market, Halloween opportunists delight in the new ways the Internet of Things (IoT) can make the most …

What Fossil’s new smartwatch needs to succeed

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

As promised during this year’s Intel Developer Forum, Fossil, Inc. revealed its connected wearable devices in time for the holidays. With the holiday shopping season upon us, Fossil has formally launched two smartwatches. the Q Grant and Q Founder, and two smart bracelets, …

Hijacked on Facebook? Here’s the fix

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

State-sponsored hacks may be something governments should be dealing with but according to Facebook, its users have become prime targets for such privacy breaches, making it a social networking problem. So Facebook is giving its users a leg up by alerting them …

Smart home gadgets not getting along? Piper launches marketplace for friendly devices

NEWS By MELLISA TOLENTINO11 YEARS AGO

As exciting as the Jetsons era sounds, today’s most promising connected devices still face the problem of interoperability. Getting smart home products from different brands to work together from a single smartphone remains a major obstacle for the Internet of Things (IoT) …

Mellisa Tolentino

Latest from Mellisa Tolentino

Smart home pride in Utah: Vivint renames Jazz stadium with automation, security updates to come

Cute names, serious security: Newest smart home cameras with IFTTT

Smart homes in the cloud: Icontrol kills DevOps barriers to entry

What you missed in the Smart World: Security in smart lights

Checklist: New homes require smarter security in connected world

We’ll survive this drought: $36b going to smart water infrastructure

Creepy IoT: 3 ways to automate Halloween

What Fossil’s new smartwatch needs to succeed

Hijacked on Facebook? Here’s the fix

Smart home gadgets not getting along? Piper launches marketplace for friendly devices

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