At CES, I made the decision to traumatize my family and swap out the Amazon Echo for the Google Home despite its known Wi-Fi challenges. We talk about that decision on the show, and from there, we hit the partnership between Maersk and IBM to create … [Read more...]
IoT News of the week for Jan. 12, 2018
Instead of the traditional news format, I'm going to offer you a list of small items I learned at CES. Comcast goes big on the smart home: Comcast has made smart home services available to all of its homes that have its most advanced router that … [Read more...]
Yonomi has a new idea for smart home manufacturers
One of the biggest challenges facing the makers of connected devices is figuring out how to pay for a product that they sell once, but which has an ongoing cost. Every connected device requires cloud infrastructure, developers to continue updating … [Read more...]
Amazon’s Echo Show threatens Nucleus … and everyone else
This week Amazon introduced the Echo Show, an Echo device that adds a screen and video-calling to Alexa. It also looks a lot like the Nucleus intercom system, which was launched less than a year ago, and counted the Alexa Voice Fund as an … [Read more...]