I’ve been covering Smarthome since before we called it “Smarthome” it started out being home automation in the 1970s with X-10 and then it bounced around for decades always on the edge of being the next big thing but never really arriving. Companies like Philips, IBM, Sony, Microsoft, and GE have been in, out, and …
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Left to right: the Amazon Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, and Amazon Echo.Business Insider Amazon is working on “a premium Echo-like speaker” with a touch screen display measuring roughly seven inches, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The report says the new Echo speaker will work with Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant — much …
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Amazon may have sold more than 5 million of its Echo line of internet-connected, voice-activated speakers in the past few years. What started off as a single product priced at close to $200 is now a family of devices including an entry-level $50 model and a portable model that sells for $130. So what’s next? According to …
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SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The IoTC (IoT Community) – the world’s largest group of CxOs and IoT professionals, announces IBM, as a Diamond corporate member of the IoTC and headline partner for its IoT Grand Slam virtual conference taking place December 1, 2016. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161129005168/en/ At …
DALLAS, TX–(Marketwired – Nov 29, 2016) – New research from Parks Associates finds smart home solutions that coordinate safety and home/away event scenarios could help a device manufacturer create cross-platform brand loyalty similar to Apple’s dominance in CE device ecosystems. The IoT research firm finds U.S. consumers are more likely to own multiple CE products …
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The holidays are hectic – dinners to plan, guests to entertain, shopping to do, lights to hang – but home doesn’t have to be. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a leader in the connected home category, is setting out to show consumers how they can easily make their home run more efficiently this …
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EL DORADO HILLS, CA–(Marketwired – Nov 29, 2016) – EEMBC®, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium setting the industry standard for valuable application-specific benchmarks, today announced its efforts on a benchmark to ensure optimum efficiency of security implementations in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This new benchmark, currently in development within EEMBC’s IoT Security working group, …
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Chronicle staff (NATIONAL) — Herein lies one more a cautionary tale about the “Internet of things.” If you don’t know what you’re doing when you set these things up, it might be a good idea to hire somebody who does. Rob Graham is CEO of a company called Errata Security. The firm bills itself as …
MediaTek showcasing its latest connected technology for cars at IC China Semiconductor expo. Global semiconductor leader MediaTek today announced its plan to bring holistic, fully integrated system solutions to the automotive industry beginning Q1 2017. With an expertise in chipset design – for mobile, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT – MediaTek plans to bring innovative …
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Global semiconductor leader bringing power-efficient, high-performance system solutions to connected, autonomous driving experiences HSINCHU, Taiwan, Nov. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — MediaTek, a global semiconductor leader, today announced its plan to bring holistic, fully integrated system solutions to the automotive industry beginning Q1 2017. The market for connected and autonomous vehicles continues to grow, and the …