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...]
IoT news of the week for September 13, 2019
McRock Capital raises C$80M of Industrial IoT fund: McRock Capital, a Canadian venture fund that invests in companies trying to serve industrial firms, has raised C$80 million of a planned C$100 million fund. The company has now launched the fund, … [Read more...]