News this week of Comcast shutting down Stringify has surely upset the service's user base. Granted it's a small group of affected users - Stringify had 100,000+ downloads in the Google Play Store compared to more than 5 million IFTTT installs, for … [Read more...]
The Wild West era of the smart home is at an end
The buyers of smart home gear woke up on Monday to some pretty bad news. The first was an article detailing why How to Geek could no longer recommend the Wink hub and the second was an email from software-based smart home platform Stringify, that it … [Read more...]
Podcast: The smart home at SXSW
This week's show features a lot of little news bits starting with a discussion about Charter testing a new smart home device management platform and another chat about facial recognition. We then return to the lessons that Boeing's 737 MAX saga have … [Read more...]
Former AlertMe team rebuilds the smart home platform
Connected devices may offer convenience and new features, but they are also an ongoing source of expense. Because with connectivity comes costs — costs to create a cloud to handle customer data and costs to make constant security and software … [Read more...]
Podcast: The Nest doorbell is a great video doorbell
Microsoft plans to spend $5 billion on the internet of things, and it’s more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements. We discuss its plans on this week’s podcast. We also talk about Qualcomm’s new vision chips … [Read more...]