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Hyperice Announced As An Official Recovery Technology Partner Of The NBA

By / Game Console, Research / September 3, 2020

Last week, I spoke to Hyperice CEO Jim Huether and NBA’s Senior Vice-President, Head of Global Media and Business Development, Dan Rossomondo, about the groundbreaking deal that was developed between the NBA and Hyperice. On July 30th, 2020, Hyperice and the NBA announced a leading-edge partnership to make them the ‘Official Recovery Technology Partner of …

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Recommendations For A Great Work From Home Setup

By / Connected Home, Personal Computing, Research, Smart Home Automation / August 20, 2020

Long before the outbreak of COVID-19, I was already working from home as a technology analyst. In this line of work, I tend to spend a lot of time perfecting my home office setup, continually trying new PCs, keyboards, monitors, wireless routers and other critical accessories. When many of my family members, friends and professional colleagues …

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Alexa Live Was Its Biggest Developer Launch, Ever

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / August 20, 2020

Two weeks ago, Amazon held its virtual Alexa Live 2020 event for Alexa voice developers, device makers, and business leaders alike—anyone in the business of leveraging Amazon’s highly popular smart assistant. Alexa boast a develop community of approximately 700,000, many whom look to this event for a roadmap to help guide their efforts in the …

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Apple’s Smart Home Efforts Get A Much-Needed Boost At WWDC

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / July 15, 2020

Amidst the hoopla and grand expectations for this year’s WWDC, there was big news in the smart home space, which deserves some focus. Held digitally, the one hour and fifty-minute event was a smoothly produced affair, with almost a documentary-style feel to it. The absence of a live audience certainly did not reduce the impact …

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HP Launches Enhanced Education Effort And New “Family-Friendly” Printers

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / June 26, 2020

Let’s be honest: the print business has been a tough one for the past several years. It was significantly impacted by the introduction of smartphones and mobile devices (like tablets), which rendered many of the old printing use cases—such as printing airline boarding passes, movie tickets, driving directions, etc.—obsolete. Big print companies began to virtually …

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Want To Secure Your Work From Home Setup? Do The Opposite Of These Four Things

By / Connected Home, Research / June 15, 2020

Even though millions of workers have been directed by their companies to work from home, it still shocks me that many of them are again not taking the proper precautions to protect their data. Some of this stems from the fact that many companies, at the onset of COVID-19, did not have substantial work from …

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Three Tales Of The Smart Home’s Dark Side

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / June 5, 2020

The smart home, in a broad sense, is one of the bigger technological developments of the past five years, providing much convenience for consumers and enhancing productivity. The smart home has experienced explosive growth, spurred in large part by the launch of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant digital assistants and smart speakers in 2014 and …

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Plume’s Timely Partnership With ADTRAN Paves The Way For A Smart Home 2.0 World

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / May 28, 2020

With the entire world consumed by COVID-19 news the past few months, it would be entirely understandable if one overlooked essential announcements in the tech space. One of these announcements occurred in late April, when Plume, one of the industry’s rising stars in the intelligent WiFi space, announced a partnership with ADTRAN to improve and secure …

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Sonos Jumps Into The Radio Streaming Labyrinth With Its Own Service

By / Connected Home, Research / May 7, 2020

Sonos, the Santa Barbara, CA-based audio equipment manufacturer, has existed for a while as a Switzerland-like entity, managing various third-party streaming services on its popular multi-room audio solutions. For years, the company’s smart speaker platform has allowed consumers to connect to hundreds of streaming services, ranging from the 800-pound gorillas like Spotify and Apple Music, …

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COVID-19 Accelerates The iPad’s Appeal As A Productivity Device

By / Connected Home, Personal Computing, Research, Tablet / May 4, 2020

Over the past thirty days, there has been a lot of talk in the media about how COVID-19 has affected technology trends—creating new ones, or altering or hastening those that were already in progress. On the usage model front, there have been two very notable movements: first, the “work from home” phenomenon, spurred by companies …

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Home Monitoring Innovation In The Age Of COVID-19

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / April 20, 2020

If you had told me on March 1st that by early April I’d be on indefinite lockdown in my San Jose home (along with the rest of the country) due to a pandemic, I would have laughed it off as a terrible plot idea for “The Twilight Zone.” Yet here we are. The impact of the …

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HP Inc. Tackles The Nefarious Cybersecurity Problem Few Will Acknowledge: The Office Printer

By / Connected Home, Cybersecurity, Research, Smart Home Automation / March 6, 2020

Over the past few years, it’s been seemingly impossible to read the news without seeing a headline about a massive data breach, ransomware attack or some other type of security failure. Today, cybercrime could be considered the single greatest threat facing businesses in the modern world. The numbers are staggering. Cybersecurity Ventures forecasted in late 2018 that …

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Plume Boldly Illuminates The Path To Smart Home 2.0

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / March 6, 2020

Most consumers define the phrase “smart home” in a relatively simplistic manner: the ability to remotely control appliances, lighting, security and/or electronic devices, generally via a smart app or digital voice assistant product. While this baseline definition is accurate, it doesn’t fully convey the potential of what is quickly becoming known as Smart Home 2.0—when …

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Post CES Roundup: Interesting Smart Products And Companies To Keep An Eye On

By / Connected Home, Smart Home Automation / March 2, 2020

Now that madness of CES is behind us, and the Kansas City Chiefs have emerged victorious in the Super Bowl, it’s high time that I get back to the important work of shedding some light on several “under the radar” companies with disruptive products and technologies who have caught my eye. Because the list is …

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Amazon Expands Its Lead With Smart CE Devices At CES 2020

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / February 3, 2020

Last week I attended CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The annual consumer electronics extravaganza provides an opportunity for companies both big and small to unveil their latest gadgets and solutions. You really can’t talk about consumer electronics these days without talking about Amazon, who took the space by storm over the past decade with its …

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Plume Asserts Its Smart Home 2.0 Aspirations With Motion Awareness Capability

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / January 24, 2020

At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, Plume launched Motion Aware—an exciting new addition to its intelligent services platform for modern smart homes. For the past 24 months, the company has wisely positioned itself as a key enabler of Smart Home 2.0, an industry phrase that describes a new wireless era characterized by cloud-based, data-driven services and application …

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4 Potential Smart Home Gamechangers In 2020

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / January 24, 2020

2019 was indisputably a crazy year in technology, from the parade of social media company executives jousting with members of Congress, to the entry of big players like Apple and Disney into the streaming business, to the introduction of new smartphone designs with “foldable” displays. As I limber up and prepare to spend four days …

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The Ultimate Smart Home Office

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / January 9, 2020

In my final column on great holiday tech gifts for 2019, I will focus on what I believe is the ultimate productivity, entertainment and cord-cutting solution for your home office. This approach may sound a bit contradictory as some consumers may view some of these solutions in a narrow and silo-oriented manner. That said, I …

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More Great Holiday Tech Gifts That Deserve Your Attention

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / December 16, 2019

In last week’s column, I highlighted some great tech gifts for the upcoming holiday season, ranging from a game-changing smart oven, stylish smartphone cases and an innovative “occupancy sensing” home sensor that can enable a whole host of home automation tasks. In this post, I will shed some visibility on another handful of new smart …

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Resideo Reaffirms Its Commitment To Its Professional Network With New Smart Home App And Services

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / December 16, 2019

Last week, Resideo Technologies announced several important smart home solutions and tools designed to augment the capabilities of its vast professional network, at a polished event at Austin’s Moody Theater for nearly a thousand industry professionals and company partners. CEO Mike Nefkens and Chief Innovative Officer Niccolo de Masi spent an hour walking the attendees through the company’s …

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