“Alexa, turn on the lights.” Consumers like the idea that a simple voice command like this can make their home a place of simplicity and leisure, where essentially having a conversation with your walls, or the human-like personal assistant living inside them such as Amazon’s Alexa, accomplishes small tasks like turning on the lights, changing […]
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BREA, Calif.–(Business Wire)–TP-Link®, a leading global provider of consumer and business networking products, today announced the addition of the LB130 to its family of Smart Wi-Fi Bulbs, which includes the LB100, the LB110 and the LB120. All models are now available at online retailers nationwide and feature Amazon Alexa compatibility, no smart hub or bridge
BOSTON (October 27, 2016)—Orbita unveiled last week the industry’s first HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based solution designed specifically to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of connected home health care. Organizations using the Orbita platform can easily create, manage and deliver practical digital home healthcare applications that improve medical outcomes and reduce health care costs for individuals with chronic and
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Voice control platforms like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google’s Google Home are taking the smart home industry by storm.Home loudspeakers, light fixtures, thermostats and, more recently, complete home automation systems from Crestron and Control4 are integrating the technology to provide consumers with a hand-free mode of managing the electronic devices in their homes …
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Qualcomm’s booth at the 2016 CES show. (Image courtesy of Maurizio Pesce, Creative Commons). Qualcomm has made the clearest statement yet that its future lies beyond smartphones. The chipmaker said Monday morning that it had signed an agreement to buy NXP Semiconductors for $47 billion. The acquisition is by far the largest in Qualcomm’s history, but it also
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GERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Earth Networks today announced the launch of its Connected Savings℠ platform (formerly WeatherBug Home) to provide consumers with energy savings and comfort by delivering unprecedented energy intelligence through the integration of Internet of Things (IoT)-connected smart home devices, proprietary weather data, and its patented and predictive algorithms. Connected Savings is an Intelligent Demand
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Connected home appliances are smart electronic appliances having internet connectivity, which can be accessible from any remote location using mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and laptops. In short, any electronic home appliance if provided with internet connectivity would become connected home appliance. Smart home appliances enable users to monitor and control household activities
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Device manufacturers’ failure to inform customers to change default passwords in their interconnected devices is being looked into as the cause of the DDoS attack on Dyn. Advertisement A yet unidentified entity was using an army of connected devices that attacked Dyn, one company that provides the address book for the internet. The resulting attack
Qualcomm is the market leader in the mobile SoC segment, and the company is now looking to expand into automotive and smart home applications by acquiring Dutch-based NXP Semiconductors for $47 billion. NXP makes chips that go in NFC payment machines, but its core competency lies in automotive infotainment and networking systems, with the company
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Thursday 27 October 2016 Wired Intuitive control, easy third-party connections Tired Sometimes Alexa mis-hears and can’t answer challenging questions Price £149.99 It took Amazon almost two years to bring its flagship hardware to the United Kingdom. Since the launch of the Amazon Echo, the firm has already followed it with the smaller, hockey puck-sized Echo