Amazon‘s smart home device, Echo, has a unique and little-known privacy feature, Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO explained on Thursday. “We’ve done something a little unusual with Echo,” Bezos said. “It would be no different from your phone, but we went one step further than what’s done on a phone. When you hit […]
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Perhaps the most highly visible home automation hub thanks to its placement in Lowe’s stores around the country, the Iris Smart Hub ($59.99) is a reasonably priced device that controls numerous Iris-branded and third-party devices, including contact and motion sensors, thermostats, locks, and more. It contains circuitry to control Z-Wave and ZigBee smart home products,
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No hassle? “We’re starting to recognize [banks and their customers] want to make the authentication or transaction authorization as seamless as possible,” said Dan Miller, founder of Opus Research. In the not-too-distant past and in some places to this day, a customer could go to a bank branch and show a teller her ATM card,
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Your garage door just got a lot smarter. Skylink‘s ATOMs Garage Door Opener (GDO) is the first smart-home garage door opener compatible with the industry standard If This Then That (IFTTT) platform. The ATOMs GDO comes with a passcode-protected, 3-button remote and you can control it with the SkylinkNet app on your Android or iOS phone, but
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The broadband service provider industry will only hurt itself if everyone tries to build their own smart home platforms, making it easier for the West Coast USA tech giants to win market share in the smart home services sector. That was the warning from Jon Carter, UK Head of Business Development, Connected Home at Deutsche
WAYNESBORO, Va.–(Business Wire)–Lumos Networks Corp. (“Lumos Networks”) (NASDAQ: LMOS), a leading fiber-based service provider in the mid-Atlantic region, is now offering SecurityCoverage’s Tech Home managed solutions to the more than 18,000 residences passed by the Company’s advanced fiber footprint. Lumos’ Gigabit FAST fiber service offerings, with internet speed up to One Gigabit per second, is
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Microsoft entered the 20th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare. The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. After running Microsoft for
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AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CLEAResult, a leader in designing and implementing technology-enabled energy efficiency programs for utilities, today released “CLEAResult’s Guide to Smart Thermostats,” outlining how utilities can use smart thermostats as a measure for savings, tool for data collection, and means of customer engagement in energy programs, pilots and projects. “CLEAResult believes strongly in the potential
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Amazon’s Alexa rules the home voice-tech world while rivals Google, Apple and Microsoft race to keep up. The giant retailer doesn’t make phones (anymore), but it’s building the talking digital assistant into devices beyond its blockbuster Echo and Dot line of always-on, always-listening home speakers. The cheapest, the Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote,
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When you think Amazon Prime, chances are you just think of free two-day shipping. Or maybe you think of Amazon Video. But as those who pay for the service will tell you, it is soooooo much more. If you’ve stopped yourself from signing up for a Prime account because you already pay for another streaming
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