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5 Smart Home Tech Categories Retailers Can Help Customers Invest In
Listening to and educating your customers based on their smart home needs can open doors of opportunity often seen as shut
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Product Spotlight
Nest Releases New Smart Thermostat
New model features improved energy saving functions and new colors
Research
Research: Privacy Concerns And Price Competition Are Barriers To Smart Home Purchases
The Parks Associates’ Smart Home Tracker also finds 40 percent of U.S. broadband households report using video conferencing services, a 54 percent increase since...
Product Spotlight
Google Home Speakers Have Bluetooth Issue, Google Admits
Is your speaker always losing its connection?
The Wire - Press Releases
Introducing The Konka Smart Speaker
Konka Debuts Elegantly Designed Speaker with Dynamic Sound and Hands-Free Google Assistant Konka North America, LLC, a subsidiary of the Konka Group (a leading...
Sponsored
Your Guide to Capturing Smart Home Revenues—A Roadmap
2019 is tracking to be a record-breaking year for technology led by the smart home
Home Automation
Amazon Winning The Voice Assistant War – But For How Long?
Google Assistant is hot on Alexa’s heels.
Product Spotlight
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.
Home Automation
Alexa, Google Home Neck-And-Neck In Consumer Poll
The split underscores today’s schizophrenic shopper.
Home Automation
Alexa, Google Assistant On A Collision Course
Amazon holds the lead in voice-assisted devices, but Google will catch up this year, says Futuresource
news
Google Steps Up The Competition
Everyone loves a good race between worthy opponents. It’s your favorite college football team against its arch rival, it’s your favored politician against the...
Home Automation
Google Takes On Amazon Dot With New Home Mini
Google unveiled a its new lineup of retail hardware products Wednesday, led by a new Pixel 2 lineup that will compete with new smartphones...
Home Automation
Amazon Invading Apple’s Ecosystem With Its Echo Smart Speakers
Smartphone users seem to be taking sides in the Amazon vs. Google smart speaker race. New analysis from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) indicates...
Keeping Current
It’s Amazon Vs. Google In The Battle For The Smart Home
With Amazon unleashing a bumper crop of Echo devices last week and Google unveiling its own array of new devices today, the battle lines are...
news
Best Buy Adding Amazon Alexa, Google Home Sections
Best Buy knows a good thing when it sees it. Rewarded for its smart-home forays with strong comp-sale gains, the retailer has accelerated its...
Home Automation
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...
Appliances
GE Adds Google Assistant To Smart Appliance Line
After entering the voice-control waters last fall by pairing up with Amazon Alexa, GE Appliances has now integrated its line of connected appliances with...
Audio
Polk MagniFi Max Flagship Soundbar Bundles In Wireless Speakers
Polk Audio introduced what the company is calling its most expansive soundbar to date: the MagniFi Max SR. Featuring the company’s Stereo Dimensional Array...
Home Automation
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...
Home Automation
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...
Home Automation
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,...
Home Automation
Google Unveils Smart Speaker, Android Wear Updates, Better VR
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...
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