Trey Pascador, Author at Padtronics

Get Your Garage Ready For Old Man Winter: 3 Simple Winterizing Tips

ELMHURST, Ill., Dec. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Winterizing the garage can help protect important items stored there – surplus food, portable generator, tools and of course, vehicles – and ensure garage access is always available. Chamberlain®, manufacturer of the most advanced garage door openers for more than 40 years and of one of the top connected-home […]

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Video: The connected home with Oak Underwriting

Our webinar looking into how the connected home can work for your clients is now available on demand. The must-see webinar for all brokers who are curious about selling connected home insurance is now available on demand. The video, which was part of the virtual event Broker Expo Live, features specialists from Oak Underwriting, including

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SSE and Dixons Carphone announce partnership in Ireland and UK

Two of the UK and Ireland’s biggest brands have announced a partnership to create a ‘one-stop’ solution that will give customers access to all the support and services they need to manage their homes, from boilers to laptops, dishwashers to wifi. Energy provider SSE and retailer Dixons Carphone have joined forces to develop a unique solution

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Microsoft's Cortana is headed to a host of home devices — with and without screens

Microsoft unloaded a ton of information at this year’s WinHEC conference on how Windows 10 will make inroads in the smart home market and elsewhere in 2017. Most of the company’s efforts regarding the Internet of Things-type devices that make today’s homes smart revolve around Microsoft Cortana, the digital assistant built into Windows 10, but Microsoft has

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Mercedes is making Google Home your car's PA

Your connected car will soon chatter with your smart home, with Mercedes-Benz announcing it plans to be the first automaker to integrate its vehicles with Google Home. The functionality was revealed at the Mercedes innovation center in California’s Silicon Valley, and will see your car personified in the form of a companion virtual assistant alongside

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Google's Android Things looks to take control of the IoT landscape

By Brett Williams2016-12-14 01:29:03 UTC With a better connected future in its sights, Google announced a Developers Preview of Android Things, a new platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). By handing the reins of the OS to developers, the company promises to put “the power of Google” at their fingertips — while the developers

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2017 will be a 'watershed year' for the insurance industry thanks to IoT

The Internet of Things has been shaking up various industries around the globe, and it seems the insurance sector is no different. A new study from Ovum has revealed that 67% of insurance carriers believe that IoT will have a significant or transformative impact on the insurance industry within 36 months. According Ovum, the insurance

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UN Internet Summit Run by Beijing Pushes “Global Governance”

Under the leadership of various Communist Chinese agents within the United Nations, the UN’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) met in Mexico last week and concluded with calls for greater international controls and more “global governance” of the World Wide Web. Another key item on the agenda was exploiting the Internet to promote the UN’s deeply

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Salesforce Security CTO: 'We Need To Change The Way We Build Everything' To Ensure IoT Security

The Internet of Things is not only creating more security vulnerabilities for various vertical markets – it’s changing the way the industry needs to approach security, said Salesforce CTO Taher Elgamal. Elgamal, speaking Tuesday at IEEE World Forum of IoT, which takes place this week in Reston, Virginia, said that the concept of threat modeling

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Google announces updates to its Internet of Things (IoT) Platform

Brillo Rebrands as Android Things Fascination with technological advancements is a facet that we all likely share here at XDA. With each new generation of Android devices, most companies push incremental changes to their hardware line-up. Some, however, take a leap of faith and introduce new devices that test our imaginations to their very limits.

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