Home Automation
Swann Smartens Up Its Home Security With Smart-Series
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...
Smartphones/Tablets
Computers
IFA: Lenovo Yoga Book 2-in-1 Has Touchscreen Keyboard Cover
Lenovo has taken the Apple’s iPad Pro and Microsoft’s Surface and Surface Book and merged them all into a new Yoga Book two-in-one, announced...
Computers
IFA: Acer Predator 21 X Gaming Laptop 1st With Curved Screen & Eye Tracking
Acer has announced the world’s first gaming laptop with a curved screen and eye-tracking control, the Predator 21 X among a slew of new...
news
Verizon Wireless Launches LTE-Advanced Nationwide
Verizon Wireless customers in 461 cities just got a boost. Thanks to today’s nationwide rollout of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) carrier aggregation technology, subscribers using one of...
Home Automation
Huawei Joins ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors
Huawei is the latest technology giant to join the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and be named to the board of directors. The...
Home Automation
Lowe’s And Alexa Are Now A Thing
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...
Home Automation
Best Buy Builds Connected Home Demo In Mall Of America
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,...
news
LG Teams With B&O For V20 Smartphone Audio
LG Electronics continues to reveal details of its upcoming flagship V20 smartphone and the emphasis seems to be on audio quality. After announcing the...
Home Automation
Video Security Cameras: Project Nursery HD Baby Monitor
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...
Home Automation
Home Automation Hubs: Savant Pro 8.0 Remote
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...
Computers
Computers: Samsung Notebook 9
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! Calling it lightweight is an understatement. Weighing less than 2 pounds, the sleek Notebook 9 is engineered from aluminum...
Home Automation
Video Doorbells: Smanos Smart Video Doorbell
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...
news
Smartphones: Galaxy S7/S7 Edge
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge combine sleek design with powerful performance so users can do more, faster...
Home Automation
Wireless Door Locks: Kwikset Signature Series Motorized Deadbolts
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...
Home Automation
Pop & Switch: Logitech Simplifies Home Control (Again)
Logitech is corralling home control with the push of a button — and no, it’s not with a remote. The company has launched a...
news
T-Mobile Offering Low-Priced, Unlimited LTE For Multiple Lines
T-Mobile is making permanent a fleeting family-plan promotion from earlier this year: four lines with unlimited talk, text and high-speed 4G LTE data for...
E-Readers
Kobo Debuts Aura One Waterproof E-Reader
Kobo has introduced a second waterproof e-reader and updated its entry-level Aura model. The Aura One features a 7.8-inch Carta E Ink touchscreen with...
Home Automation
Smart Baby: Target Adds ‘Connected Nursery’ Sections
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...
news
LG Will Boost V20 Smartphone Audio With Quad DAC
LG Electronics announced that its forthcoming flagship smartphone, the LG V20, will be the first smartphone in the industry to feature 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad...
Home Automation
Somfy Joins ZigBee Alliance
Somfy has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a seat on its board of directors. Somfy develops, manufactures and distributes...
Home Automation
Amazon Adds Another Dash Of GE
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,...
Home Automation
Staples Unplugging From Staples Connect Smart-Home Platform
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...
news
Samsung Skips Ahead To Note 7
Samsung took the wraps off its latest phablet, the Galaxy Note 7. (No, you’re not imaging things: The last Note was the Note 5,...
news
New LG Flagship V20 Is First Phone To Run Android 7.0 Nougat OS
LG Electronics confirmed today that its next flagship smartphone, the LG V20, will be the first device to feature Android 7.0 Nougat out of...
news
Butterfingers Rejoice: Corning Debuts Gorilla Glass 5
Corning may inflict some pain on CE accessory makers. The manufacturer announced it latest edition of Gorilla Glass, said to be able to survive...
news
Comcast Muscling In On Mobile: Report
Comcast appears to be gearing up for a foray into mobile. According to sources familiar with the communications conglomerate, Greg Butz, sales and marketing...
news
Apple Sells 1 Billionth iPhone
Milestone follows news of slipping sales Nine years after Apple revolutionized the tech industry by introducing the first-generation iPhone, CEO Tim Cook announced that...
news
T-Mobile Trumps Competitors At GOP Convention
T-Mobile said it mustered the fastest data speeds at last week’s Republican National Convention (RNC), beating out archrival Verizon Wireless by nearly 50 percent....
news
Chances Are Your Phone Will Have This Kind Of Screen In Four Years
OLED displays, and more specifically those employing AMOLED technology, will be the predominant smartphone screen type in four years’ time. According to global research...
Home Automation
Is It A Dog Or The Delivery Man? Nest Cams Will Know
Nest Labs stepped into the great wide open with its newest security cam, the Nest Cam Outdoor. The Nest Cam Outdoor is essentially the...
Home Automation
Wiser Air Smart Thermostat Will Remember Feedback
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...
news
CTIA Sets Partnerships For Super Mobility 2016
CTIA Super Mobility 2016 has announced its roster of partners for the wireless show in September in Las Vegas. The list includes those companies...
news
Flying The Wirelessly Connected Skies: Keeping Up With Drones
You’ve likely seen them, read about them, or perhaps even used one. But you may be asking yourself: Can drones play a key part...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Alexa Is Getting Even Smarter
Alexa has been busy. One year after Amazon opened up its personal digital assistant to developers, the disembodied voice of Echo, Dot, Tap and...
Computers
HP Drops New $189 Chromebook
Hewlett-Packard’s latest Chromebook is aiming squarely at the back-to-school market. The newly updated Chromebook 11 G5 is a Cloud-centric 11.6-inch, 2.5-pound laptop that will...
Home Automation
Banks Race To Incorporate Amazon’s Alexa
“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...
Home Automation
New Smart-Home Leak Detector Rules The Roost
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...
Home Automation
Nest Now Selling Others’ ‘Works With Nest’ Smart-Home Devices
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...
E-Readers
Amazon Upgrades Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon has relaunched its pioneering Kindle and best-selling Kindle Paperwhite e-readers. The new entry-level Kindle is 11 percent thinner and 16 percent lighter with...
news
Lenovo, Google Learn To Tango
The world’s first smartphone equipped with Google’s Tango technology arrives unlocked in September at $499 along with multiple apps that leverage Tango’s motion-tracking, depth-sensing...
news
Innovation, Value Get Smartphone Focus
The smartphone market is heading into the summer season with new design and technology innovations competing with new value-priced phones and new niche models....
Home Automation
Bluetooth 5 Will Be Faster, Have Longer Range & Be Better For IoT
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-...