Cisco Blog > Energy – Oil & Gas and Utilities Energy – Oil & Gas and Utilities Serhii Konovalov – January 24, 2017 – 0 Comments By Serhii Konovalov with Jon Judson and Julie Fink-White With almost a month behind us now into 2017, we are seeing the usual flurry of predictions and “What to …
Both Amazon and Google are in the middle of competing with one another over their respective speaker devices: The Amazon Echo and Google Home Published By: Ken Bock on January 23, 2017 08:40 am EST With the start of 2017, tech companies Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary, Google, are battling to see …
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How a Kentucky city connects to the CNET Smart Apartment The city of Louisville, Ky., has started to work with citizens to develop integrations between city services and smart home platforms and products. We get to see a few of these in action at the CNET Smart Apartment. by Rich Brown 2:03 Close Drag The …
If you’re not paying attention to what’s going on in energy, you should. We’ve seen this movie before. Spoiler alert: There’s massive economic opportunity ahead. How massive? Imagine standing in 1992, knowing that Google, Akamai, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, BuzzFeed and Uber lay ahead. This time it’s the “enernet,” not the internet, that will transform …
According to a recent report published by IHS Markit, 80 million smart home devices were shipped worldwide in 2016, a 64 percent increase over the prior year. The Americas saw the bulk of those orders last year, as about 70 million connected home devices were shipped to the market. The region is expected to see …
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MarketResearchReports.Biz has announced addition of new report “Connected Home Appliance Market In The US 2016-2020” to its database. This press release was orginally distributed by SBWire Albany, NY — (SBWIRE) — 01/19/2017 — About Connected Home Appliances Smart home appliances allow users to monitor and control household activities from a remote location. These appliances allow …
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The latest big surprise hit Amazon’s Alexa. Voice control seems to be the next big thing, but Amazon makes it hard to extend its reach to really new skills. An alternative is Mycroft and open source AI with voice control. The good news is that now you can run it on a Raspberry Pi with …
Supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump cheer during the election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown on November 8, 2016 in New York City. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This Friday, an estimated 800,000 people will descend on Washington, D.C., for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony. A day later, protesters plan to …
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Enlarge reader comments 31 Share this story Smart cameras marketed under the Samsung brand name are vulnerable to attacks that allow hackers to gain full control, a status that allows the viewing of what are supposed to be private video feeds, researchers said. The remote code-execution vulnerability has been confirmed in the Samsung SmartCam SNH-1011, …
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Nvidia’s second-generation Shield TV had us turning our heads at CES thanks to its slimmed down profile, HDR support, and smart home features. Now, a little more than a week later, the new Shield TV is available for sale for $200. The higher priced $300 Shield Pro is expected to start shipping at the end …
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