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Samsung Galaxy Home Release Date Hopes Finally Raised By Beta Rollout: Tech Radar
Will this smart speaker ever come out?
Smart Home
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Z-Wave Alliance Adds Ring to its Board of Directors
Ring joins Alliance leadership as a Principal Member.
Audio
Josh.ai Announces Partnership With Sonance
Josh.ai: "This is a natural fit given each of our company’s stances on the need to simplify technology to suit elegant design."
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Josh.ai’s Very Good Year
Josh.ai surpasses 300 dealers, signs on first rep firm, and hires first national sales director.
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Z-Wave Alliance Promotes Enhanced Certification for Next-Gen Devices
With 3000+ certified products in the ecosystem, the new Z-Wave Plus v2 certification ensures stronger interoperability, security, and ease of install for end users.
Buying Groups
Nationwide Marketing Group Introduces Connected Home Division
Industry’s first home division exclusively dedicated to independent retailers
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Westinghouse Roku Smart TVs Available At Top U.S. Retailers
Resolutions range from 32-65 inches
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New Age Electronics To Distribute C By GE Connected Products
First distributor to offer GE Lighting’s smart lighting to retail partners
Another View
Google Nest Rebrand Kick-Starts The Next Chapter Of A Smart-Home Evolution
Google Home and related devices have a 24% market share as of January 2019
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Android TV: Bringing Google Assistant And Search To Television
Platform chief Shalini Govil-Pai describes a perfect pairing.
Home Automation
Home Security, Climate Control To Continue To Drive Smart Home Growth
AI expected to be next big development
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V-Commerce To Find Its Voice In 2019: CTA
A quarter of consumers will utter a purchase next year.
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Smart-Home Penetration At 32% And Growing
But platform interoperability remains a key concern for consumers.
Appliances
Whirlpool Simplifies Voice Commands For Google-Connected Appliances
The enhancements were revealed at this week's Google I/O developer's conference.
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Global Smart Home Market Worth $6B In 2017, And Rising Fast
Smart home devices have shaken off their novelty image and are moving mainstream, becoming one one of the fastest growing consumer electronics categories of...
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Bosch: The Smart City Of The Future Has Arrived
The company is currently conducting connected pilots in 14 urban centers worldwide.
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Amazon Cooking Up More Feats For Alexa
The virtual assistant can now control microwave ovens by voice.
news
Alexa, Google Assistant & Other Voice UIs Come Into Their Own
This month’s CEDIA 2017 gave A/V products and custom-installed integrated systems more of a voice in the way they’re controlled. New products are on...
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Blink Zone Defense
Blink Zones are helpful in differentiating the uses you have for your Blink cameras. One benefit to have cameras on different systems is to...
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Blink XT One Camera System
The Blink XT One Camera System is engineered as a whole-home security system that is also extremely easy to setup and install. The battery-operated...
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Samsung Wisenet SmartCam D1 Video Doorbell
The SmartCam D1 Video Doorbell enables homeowners to have complete monitoring of their front door. Featuring human facial recognition and detection technology, the Wi-Fi-connected...
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LG’s Newest Hom-Bot Turbo+ Robot Vacuum Is Also A Smart-Home Cam With Google Assistant
What would Rosie the Robot do? LG introduced a trio of new Hom-Bot+ Turbo robotic vacuums this week, including one positioned as a home-security...
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Bluetooth Mesh Makes Its Official Debut
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced that the Bluetooth LE spec now supports mesh networking, making the wireless technology an option for large-scale...
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Amazon Show A Go For Echo Owners
Echo Show, Amazon’s first smart speaker with a touchscreen, is an object of desire among current Echo owners but merely rates a “meh” among...
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The Smart Home Can Grow By Stealth, Says Futuresource
Smart-home growth may come slowly — but steadily — as just one installed device is enough to motivate consumers to further automate their lives,...
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EZViz’s Mini Trooper Is An Indoor/Outdoor Security Solution
EZViz has broadened its lineup of smart-home security devices with the addition of the Mini Trooper camera. Featuring a wire-free design that’s meant for...
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We’ve Seen The Future Of The Smart Home, And It Is Bright
New research paints a rosy picture for the road to the smart home. Home-automation products will add $1.8 billion of new CE sales through...
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Apple’s HomePod Could Be The Smart Home’s Rising Tide
Apple’s annual WWDC is less a consumer event than a chance to set the stage for the new items announced throughout the rest of...
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