smart home

$1.7B iRobot Deal Clears Path for Amazon’s Smart Home Ambitions
$1.7B iRobot Deal Clears Path for Amazon’s Smart Home Ambitions
August 05, 2022  |  Acquisitions

Author Isaac Asimov coined ‘The Three Laws of Robotics’ in his 1950 novel “I, Robot’ of which none specifically addressed vacuuming, as the sci-fi visionary...

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Google Ramps up Smart Home Connected Device Effort to Slow Rise of Amazon’s Alexa 
Google Ramps up Smart Home Connected Device Effort to Slow Rise of Amazon’s Alexa 
November 11, 2021  |  Innovation

Home is where the connected devices are … at least that is how Google and ADT see it. In the time since they announced their...

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ADT, Google Developing New Home Security Products, Services
ADT, Google Developing New Home Security Products, Services
June 28, 2021  |  Safety and Security

The home security company ADT is banking on a partnership with Google’s smart-home services to help boost its revenue. A story in The Wall Street...

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Senate Judiciary Committee Presses Google, Amazon For Smart Home Info
Senate Judiciary Committee Presses Google, Amazon For Smart Home Info
June 23, 2021  |  ANTITRUST

The chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights has called on Amazon and Google’s Alphabet to extend more information about...

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Big Tech’s Zigbee Alliance Eyes 2021 ‘Smart Home’ Standard
Big Tech’s Zigbee Alliance Eyes 2021 ‘Smart Home’ Standard
September 08, 2020  |  Internet of Things

We’re all doing, well, everything from home, so it makes sense that home should be a bit easier to deal with. In what might be...

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How Recovery Could Power The Personal Robot Revolution
How Recovery Could Power The Personal Robot Revolution
May 15, 2020  |  Internet of Things

Robots have a long track record of generating buzz, but not quite so much in the way of results. Interest in robots as a novelty...

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Building The ‘Home Oasis’ One Smart Device At A Time
Building The ‘Home Oasis’ One Smart Device At A Time
April 28, 2020  |  Intelligence of Things

The house (or the apartment or the studio or your parents’ basement) is increasingly becoming a focal point of daily life. Time, then, to picture...

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Connected Home Switches On New Funding And Tech Advances
Connected Home Switches On New Funding And Tech Advances
February 26, 2020  |  Investments

The connected home received some juice yesterday as software company Plume closed an $85 million round of financing from Charter Communications, Qualcomm, Belkin and Service...

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Apple Patent Shows Self-Configuring Smart Home
Apple Patent Shows Self-Configuring Smart Home
February 14, 2020  |  Apple

A new Apple patent application outlines the way a truly independent smart home would function. The patent application — titled “Object tracking and authentication using...

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