smart home

Keeping up With the Connected Joneses

Keeping up With the Connected Joneses
Keeping up With the Connected Joneses
October 07, 2022  |  Connected Economy

Another day. Another dollar. Another item in your Amazon cart to avoid a trek to your local big box store. Another voice command to “Dim...

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Amazon, Google Hear Consumers, Crank Up Volume of Voice Commerce Touchpoints
Amazon, Google Hear Consumers, Crank Up Volume of Voice Commerce Touchpoints
September 19, 2022  |  Retail

The chorus supporting expansion of voice commerce and smart home applications has gotten considerably louder in 2022 as Amazon specifically brings Alexa deeper into connecting...

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Amazon Boosts Alexa Device Features, Capabilities to Improve Connected Commerce
Amazon Boosts Alexa Device Features, Capabilities to Improve Connected Commerce
August 31, 2022  |  Retail

Amazon released a series of instruction manuals Wednesday (Aug. 31) designed to help users set up their Alexa Echo devices and turn their homes into...

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$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  |  Partnerships

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  |  Cybersecurity

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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