To shore up its software offerings, Cisco has agreed to acquire AppDynamics for roughly $3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards. The announcement comes just days before the San Francisco-based application intelligence software startup was expected to go public. “Applications have become the lifeblood of a company’s success,” Rowan Trollope, SVP and general manager […]
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CES 2017 bore good news for anyone who has bought into Lutron’s Caséta Wireless smart home devices. In addition to Apple HomeKit and Amazon Alexa, Lutron now works with Samsung SmartThings and the Nest Cam, making for a very impressive list of compatible devices and services. There are some hurdles. Caséta Wireless uses a proprietary wireless connection
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This year, several smartphone manufacturers, including Apple, Samsung Electronics, Huawei, LG and Xiaomi are expected to introduce new devices that feature better AI-based assistants in an effort to increase overall market share, according to industry reports. Apple developing “enhanced Siri” this year Apple acquired Seattle-based learning startup Turi in August 2016 in an effort to
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You can add tons of features to your Amazon Echo with little apps Amazon calls “Alexa Skills.” Most of them are garbage. We’ve sifted through the mess to find the best ones that are actually useful. If you’ve never added a Skill to your Echo, it’s pretty easy. Open the Alexa app on your phone,
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The imaginative and prescient of the actually clever home the place your safety system and all of its related smart home gadgets, from Siri to your range, may be managed by your smart telephone, is beginning to grow to be a actuality. This leap in know-how is nice information for the trade, and excellent news
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Guillermo Fernandes/Flickr Tarlon Khoubyari Web Content Manager Connected home assistants are making their way onto the countertops of many American homes. Most of us are familiar with Alexa, Amazon’s first introduction to the connected assistant market. Amazon has been very successful in this market. In less than a couple years alone, they released three different
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Manage your home’s temperature or lights by voice; Home Control is also headed to Pixel. Google Home is getting a little smarter. The Amazon Echo competitor now plays nice with Belkin Wemo and Honeywell devices to help you control your home’s temperature and lights. With the new Honeywell integration, you can “conveniently manage your home’s
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The race to build the next Jarvis has intensified in the last 6 months. Amazon’s (presumed) Christmas Alexa sales – alongside wide acclaim for Google’s Assistant – have opened a few eyes in the tech world, and now Apple is starting to make noises about AI. A report from Digitimes yesterday cites a source claiming
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/EINPresswire.com/ — DALLAS, TX–(Marketwired – Jan 25, 2017) – IoT research firm Parks Associates today announced the topics and two keynotes from Cox and Vivint Smart Home for the upcoming 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference on May 23-25, 2017, in San Francisco. The conference, which is currently accepting speaker submissions, will address topics
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HARTFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Eight out of ten U.S. consumers have a home data network and more than a third of them connect entertainment systems, gaming consoles and other smart devices to the Internet, increasing the risk of home cyber attacks, a survey by Zogby Analytics for The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB),
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