Sevenhugs, the technology startup, announced Wednesday (Dec. 14) it reached $1 million in SmartRemote pre-orders on Kickstarter. Sevenhugs’ Smart Remote, which allows users to control any device by pointing at it, was named as one of the most innovative productd in the CES 2017 Smart Home...
Wynn Las Vegas and Amazon announced Wednesday (Dec. 14) that all of Wynn Las Vegas’ 4,748 hotel rooms will now include Echo, Amazon’s hands-free voice-controlled speaker. In a press release, the companies said the move on the part of Wynn Las Vegas and Amazon represents...
Silicon Valley tech startup Mist Systems is pioneering smart wireless networking for the smart device era. Since its founding in 2014, Mist Systems has worked to bring its Mist Intelligent Wireless Cloud and Enterprise-Grade Access Points to corporations across multiple sectors including retail, hospitality, health...
It’s no small task. Most know by now that the movie theater industry has been through some considerable struggles in the past few years. MPAA statistics show that theater admissions in North America have been flat in recent years. In 2015, 1.32 billion tickets were...
According to emerging reports, Microsoft is planning to take on Amazon Alexa and Google Home with the coming release of its HomeHub features. HomeHub will be built directly into Windows 10 and will (according to Window Central) “crush” Google Home and Amazon Echo. Whether that...
Twenty, 10, even six years ago, most (if any) had neither the technological capability nor the foresight to imagine the future of the homeshare and vacation rental industry. But there’s no doubt about it now: Airbnb is big business. Like many major players in the...
Amazon.ca announced Thursday (Dec. 1) that it is expanding Amazon Launchpad into Canada. Amazon Launchpad is an online store that showcases hundreds of different innovative products that are available for purchase by Canadian consumers. “We are delighted to offer Canadian customers a variety of amazing...
It is about to get a little bit easier for consumers in the U.K. to spread the cost of big purchases out over several installments — so long as they paid with a Mastercard. As part of a new partnership with Verifone, Mastercard is launching the...
U.K. online grocery store Ocado has been at the vanguard of online retail since its founding in the spring 2000. Ocado has no stores, nor has it ever. It operates solely on a warehouse model. “Ocado’s central focus is technical innovation and efficiency — our...
