M&A, Strategies, Alliances Big data vendor ParStream has joined the HyperCat Consortium, the body that oversees the HyperCat protocol – a silo-busting way of cataloging data so that it can be queried by other platforms or devices for use in IoT applications. Peltz Shoes is abandoning the RFID project it began in 2009, after finding that the 1% of tags that failed to read properly caused more labor than the other 99% saved – among smaller issues with tag accuracy and line labor. GE and NTT Docomo have signed an MoU to work together on industrial IoT technology. Telefonica and Jasper have partnered on an IoT platform in Brazil. Etisalat is working with Oberthur Technologies and ThingWorx to create the…