This week, the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) announced several new members, including big names IBM, Inside Secure and National Instruments, as well as a few lesser-known additions to the group from around the globe – including Taiwanese silicon vendors TA-I, Kookmin University in South Korea and South African engineering company Micosa. The OIC, launched by Intel, Samsung and Broadcom, is constructing an open source framework to wirelessly connect technologies and regulate the stream of information between the billions of devices comprising the IoT. The framework is called IoTivity, but we had anticipated it being released by now. Direct rival AllJoyn has already made it to market, but from the outside, it looks like the OIC is lagging behind the Qualcomm…