GE Appliances Adds Voice Control Via Amazon Alexa
GE Appliances, which has collaborated with Amazon on its Dash automated replenishment system, has tapped into the e-tailer’s technology yet again. Effective this month,...
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GE Appliances, which has collaborated with Amazon on its Dash automated replenishment system, has tapped into the e-tailer’s technology yet again. Effective this month,...
With data breaches and hacked email servers making headlines, it should come as no surprise that personal data security is the No. 1 concern...
Custom home automation and control supplier Crestron is the latest company to incorporate Amazon’s Alexa smart voice assistant into its products. Crestron-certified installers will...
Amazon has improved its portable Echo Dot device, shaving a few millimeters off the top and dropping the price down to $49.99. It also...
URC is introducing a new a new Cloud-based smart-home control system for the CEDIA channel. MX HomePro offers users one-touch control of home entertainment...
Next month, Philips will start shipping its new Hue smart-bulb motion detector, which will allow consumers to control their Philips Hue smart bulbs by...
Installer-focused distributor Capitol is focusing on the connected home market at this year’s CEDIA. Video will be one of the most prevalent categories in...
LG expanded its smart-home ecosystem at IFA, announcing a series of partnerships that were highlighted by cooperation with Amazon to allow voice control of...
Swann is getting a little smarter about home security. The company, which entered the home-automation market last year, took the wraps off its new...
Huawei is the latest technology giant to join the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and be named to the board of directors. The...
Lowe’s has welcomed Amazon into its Iris family of home-automation products with open arms. The No. 2 home improvement chain has joined the growing...
For the next three weeks Best Buy is calling Minnesota’s Mall of America home, or rather Tech Home. That’s the name given the multi-room,...
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! The Project Nursery Baby Monitor includes both a 5-inch HD monitoring unit and a compact mini-monitor with a 1.5-inch...
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! The Savant Pro 8.0 Remote is the latest in the line for Savant Pro homeowners, and offers full control...
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! The Smanos Smart Video Doorbell is an all-new addition to the company’s smart home portfolio. The wireless, battery-powered doorbell...
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! Utilizing the Kwikset single-cylinder deadbolt as its foundation, Signature Series Motorized Deadbolts are an ideal lock for the first-time...
Logitech is corralling home control with the push of a button — and no, it’s not with a remote. The company has launched a...
Target, an aggressive player in the smart-home category, has extended its IoT beachhead into baby products. The No. 2 discount chain has added Connected...
Somfy has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a seat on its board of directors. Somfy develops, manufactures and distributes...
GE Appliance, an early adherent of Amazon’s Dash automated reordering system, is about to bring some more products to the replenishment party. As a refresher,...
Updated! Staples is no longer selling Staples Connect, its proprietary smart-home platform. Instead, the No. 1 office supply chain and is handing off sales and...
Nest Labs stepped into the great wide open with its newest security cam, the Nest Cam Outdoor. The Nest Cam Outdoor is essentially the...
Schneider Electric’s smart thermostat is a little (more) wiser. The Wiser Air Wi-Fi smart thermostat has been updated with a new Eco IQ feature...
Alexa has been busy. One year after Amazon opened up its personal digital assistant to developers, the disembodied voice of Echo, Dot, Tap and...
“Alexa, pay my rent.” Citigroup said it is testing Amazon’s Alexa voice-command assistant as part of an upgrade to its mobile banking app. The...
Roost has expanded its smart-home portfolio with a leak and freeze detector. The company, which markets smart battery and smoke alarm products, adds the...
Nest has begun selling third-party smart-home products directly from its online store for the first time. All of the products carry the Works with...
A new Bluetooth specification due late this year or early next will boost range, speed, and broadcast-message capacity to enhance Bluetooth’s capabilities in home-...
Custom-audio supplier Russound is expanding into light-commercial products and building up its engineering capabilities on the eve of its 50th year in business. The...
D-Link plans to launch its first smart-home product with Apple HomeKit certification, the company announced. The first product, due later this year, will be...
Apple used yesterday’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to smarten up its HomeKit home-automation platform, adding control of Wi-Fi security cameras, doorbells, air conditioners, and air...
Logitech unveiled its first product dedicated to the custom-install channel and said it will offer additional products in the coming months to meet installers’...
Nortek, the supplier of residential and commercial control and HVAC systems, made its second acquisition in as many months, this time purchasing a company...
Virtual reality and Android Wear wearables starred at Google’s annual developers conference, where the company also unveiled its Google Home voice-controlled wireless speaker and...
Consumer intentions to buy smart-home products jumped in less than two years, and many people who own a smart-home product use them daily, Parks...
Nest introduced OpenThread today, an open-source reference code implementation of the Thread networking protocol. With OpenThread, Nest aims to make the wireless connection technology...
Roost launched its first pair of smart smoke detectors following the CES 2016 launch of the Roost Smart Battery, which turns existing smoke alarms...
Singapore start-up Intraix wants you to turn an existing Wi-Fi router into a smart-home hub by plugging in a USB stick incorporating smart-home technology....
Smart-home ownership could double to 30 million households in the next year, if a survey commissioned by August Home and Comcast Xfinity Home is...
You can now talk to Alexa on a non-Amazon speaker. Invoxia, a speaker and telecom manufacturer, has launched the Triby, a magnetic portable Bluetooth...
Is voice control the new disruptor? With the popularity and visibility of Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana, and by future...
Home- and commercial-automation supplier Legrand signed a definitive agreement to buy Luxul Wireless, the supplier of pro-grade IP-network products to residential and commercial integrators....