Google has taken an investment stake in alarm company ADT as well as signed a deal to tie ADT's installer network to the Google ecosystem of smart home products. The deal helps Google by bringing professional installers into the homes of consumers to … [Read more...]
The chickens are coming home to roost in the smart home
The smart home is dead. I'm not sure exactly when the time of death should have been called, but it happened at some point between Google trying to rebrand the smart home as "the helpful home" and the publication of this article, which expresses … [Read more...]
Can beautiful hardware sell you on a pro smarthome?
SnapAV has launched a new remote for its smart home installations that combines beautiful aesthetics with the SnapAV's newly acquired Control4 smart home operating system. The new remote is the result of Control4's acquisition earlier this year of … [Read more...]
Podcast: Yes, I want Amazon Alexa eyeglasses
This week we returned to the Amazon announcements from last week, so Kevin and I could share our thoughts in depth. We hit the popular gadgets, Sidewalk and even delved into the smart oven. We also covered funding news for two companies trying to … [Read more...]
Podcast: How Amazon is defining the smart home
This week’s show will cover the big Amazon announcements in the guest segment, but first Kevin and I focused on the retailer’s smaller announcements around its new show and tell feature and voice interoperability efforts. Kevin has thoughts about … [Read more...]
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