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Smart Speakers Are Driving Smart-Home Growth
Voice control in the connected-home market will rapidly expand the adoption of such devices, according to the latest forecast from Park Associates. Parks is...
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Samsung’s Connect Home Mesh Router For Smart Homes Will Be Available July 2 At Best Buy
Samsung’s Connect Home Wi-Fi mesh router for smart homes will become available at Best Buy beginning July 2, with pre-orders beginning this Sunday, June...
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Harman Hooks Up With Cortana
Harman International will tap the burgeoning smart-speaker market this fall with the launch of the Harman Kardon Invoke, a premium, voice-activated Echo-like device. Perhaps...
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Amazon’s Stranglehold On The Smart-Speaker Biz
A trio of new reports confirms what we kinda already know: that voice control is the happening new user interface, and that smart wireless...
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Jem & Energerzier Team To Keep The Smart Home Going & Going & Going …
Jem Accessories has partnered with Energizer Brands to produce and market smart-home devices, a first for the power badge. The Energizer Connect line of...
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59% Of Smart-Home Shoppers Care About Hacking Protection: Report
New research suggests security concerns remain a major roadblock to mass-market penetration of connected-home devices, while also offering new opportunities for add-on sales. According...
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Jem Accessories, Energizer Team For Smart-Home Line
Jem Accessories has partnered with Energizer Brands to produce and market smart-home devices, a first for the power badge. The Energizer Connect line of...
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Amazon Shows Us Another Echo, This One With Touchscreen
For the second time in two weeks Amazon this morning has introduced another variant to its market-leading Echo smart-speaker line. This time, the House...
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Harman Hooks Up With Cortana For Invoke Smart Speaker
Harman International will tap the burgeoning smart-speaker market this fall with the launch of the Harman Kardon Invoke, a premium, voice-activated Echo-like device. Perhaps...
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Amazon Echo Controls 71% Of Smart-Speaker Biz: Report
A trio of new reports confirms what we kinda already know: that voice control is the happening new user interface, and that smart wireless...
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Universal Electronics To Acquire Residential Control Systems
Universal Electronics (UEI), a manufacturer of smart-home controllers and sensing technology, will acquire Residential Control Systems for $9 million. Residential Control Systems, also known...
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Amazon’s Got Sol: GE’s Stand-Alone Alexa Lamp Will Ship In September
Consumers will soon be able to have Alexa-controlled smart lighting without owning an Echo, Dot, Tap or Look. GE has revealed shipping and pricing...
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iDevices Acquired By Hubbell
iDevices, the seven-year-old smart-home company and creator of the iGrill, has been acquired by Hubbell, a $3.4 billion global manufacturer of electrical, lighting and...
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Moni Simplifies Smart-Home Security With Interactive Kiosk
Moni (formerly Monitronics), a Dallas-based home security alarm monitoring company, has introduced what it described as a first-of-its-kind interactive kiosk meant to make smart-home...
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Most Consumers Plan To Buy A Smart-Home Device In The Next 2 Years: Study
More than half of U.S. consumers plan to buy a smart-home device in the next two years, and of those who already own one,...
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Moni Adds Qolsys IQ Home Security/Smart Home Control Panel
Moni has introduced an all-in-one security and smart home control panel to its smart home security portfolio. The Qolsys IQ Panel 2 has a...
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Logitech Links Harmony Line With Google Home
Logitech’s Harmony hub-based devices are now compatible with Google Assistant, providing voice control for the Harmony Elite, Harmony Companion and Harmony Hub within the...
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Consumers With Smart-Home Devices Are More Satisfied With Their Smartphones: J.D. Power
The smart home is driving smartphone satisfaction, not the other way around, according to recent findings from J.D. Power. And while Apple took first...
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Amazon’s Alexa Comes To The iPhone
Siri is welcoming a friend to the iPhone: Alexa. iPhone users can now make use of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, although they will need...
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Lowe’s Beefs Up Iris With Halo Addition
Lowe’s has expanded its Iris smart-home system to include integration with Halo smoke alarms. Iris users can now add the Halo and Halo+ smoke...
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Yale Smart Locks Offer Amazon Alexa Compatibility
Yale Locks & Hardware has joined the Alexa roster. Yale announced that its Yale Real Living deadbolts and levers with Z-Wave or ZigBee are...
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Savant Refocuses On Luxury Market Under Bob Madonna
Last week, Savant released details about its new 4K60 4:4:4 HDR video distribution system, the company’s first major product announcement since founder Robert Madonna...
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Smart-Home Product Dollar Sales Grew 57% In 2016
Networked video cameras most common device Smart-home product U.S. dollar sales grew 57 percent in 2016 vs. the prior year, according to a recent...
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Amazon Offering Free In-Home IoT Consults
Amazon has launched a free in-home consulting service to extend its beachhead in smart home. Leveraging its ubiquitous Alexa personal digital assistant platform, the...
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TWICE Picks Award Winner: Belkin Wemo Dimmer Switch
With the Wemo Dimmer, users can control lights from whatever is easiest — their phone, voice, through rules or the device itself. A Night...
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TWICE Picks Award Winner: LG Air Purifier PuriCare 360
The LG Air Purifier PuriCare features an aesthetic that’s meant to complements virtually any room décor, and boasts a 360-degree design that drastically purifies...
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TWICE Picks Award Winner: iHome iSP8 SmartPlug With Remote Control & Power Monitoring
The new iSP8 SmartPlug extends the iHome Control family by adding a remote control. Turn on or off any small appliance (up to 1800...
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TWICE Picks Award Winner: Samsung FlexWash+FlexDry
The FlexWash + FlexDry laundry system is designed to be flexible enough to fit any family’s laundry style. The FlexWash features one small top...
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TWICE Picks Award Winner: LG Flat 65-inch Super UHD 4K TV With HDR Super & Smart Home (65SJ8000)
The new 65-inch Super UHD TV (65SJ8000) supports LG’s enhanced webOS 3.5 smart TV platform, which connects the TV with numerous home appliances, offering...
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TWICE Picks Award Winner: iDevices Socket
The iDevices Socket allows you to screw any standard light bulb into the iDevices Socket for immediate connectivity. Users can control the power and...
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The Inspiration For Alexa, And Other Cool Echo-flections
In a pitch to vendors, developers and service providers to hitch their ride to Amazon’s ubiquitous virtual digital assistant, Alexa smart home director Charlie...
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Whirlpool, Alexa Pairing Up
Whirlpool is about to become the latest vendor to join Alexa’s dating pool. The manufacturer said it plans to imbue a host of smart...
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Securifi’s Almond 3 Aims To Make Mesh Networking Affordable (And Foolproof)
Five-year-old consumer router resource Securifi hopes to bring mesh and connected-home technology to the masses with its latest iteration, the Almond 3 smart-home Wi-Fi...
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Sony, Google Home Get Hitched
Google Home users can now stream music and video to several models of new and existing Chromecast built-in Sony speakers and Android TV Sony...
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Room At Wynn’s Inn For Alexa
Guests at Steve Wynn’s Wynn Las Vegas casino may find themselves sharing a room with an unexpected guest next month. That’s when the hotel...
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Audyssey Unveils Enhanced Far-Field Voice-Recognition Technology
Audyssey has unveiled eVR, a suite of audio technologies that can be licensed by manufacturers to enable far-field voice recognition in CE products that...
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Staples’ Easy Button Now Really Works Thanks To Watson
Watch out Amazon Dash: You’re not the only button in town anymore. Geared toward small-business owners, Staples unveiled one of its signature red Easy...
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EZViz Welcomes Smart-Cam Trio
EZViz continues its growth into the connected home with three new smart-home security cameras, all geared toward different consumers. The company has also updated...
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Emerson Wins J.D. Power’s 1st Smart-Thermostat Customer Satisfaction Ratings Report
Emerson and its Sensi Wi-Fi- smart thermostat — not Nest — took top honors in J.D. Power’s inaugural “2016 Smart Thermostat Satisfaction Report.” The...
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GE Adds Dishwashers To Amazon Dash Contingent
GE Appliances, an early adherent of Amazon’s Dash automatic reordering system, has added dishwashers to its laundry list of compliant products. The benefit: GE’s connected...
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TWICE/CSS Survey: Security Is Smart-Home Entry Point For Shoppers
Home security is the primary connected-product category that initially brings smart-home shoppers into stores, retail sales associates report. According to an exclusive new survey,...
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Google Furthers Smart-Home Ecosystem With New Product Line
With the availability of Google’s new smart-home hub, the company has marked its “move from mobile-first to AI-first,” stated CEO Sundar Pichai. Google Assistant,...