The Amazon Echo: Everything You Might Not Know

Connected Home   Trouble seeing this email?     Connecting You To The Most Important Retail Business Decision Makers     Top Stories     The Amazon Echo: Everything You Might Not Know Next week, Amazon will start widely shipping its most unusual and intriguing hardware device since the Kindle: The Echo, a slender, nine-inch-tall cylinder built to respond to voice commands ranging from "What's the weather in Hong Kong?" to "How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?" to "Play 'Fire and Rain' by James Taylor." Read More»   Smarthome Estimate Offers All-in-One Home Automation There are so many products on the market now that let you automate your home and control it from your phone. These days you don't even need to be near your home in order to lock and unlock doors, control your home's temperature, and customize the lighting. The only downsides to the emergence of smarter homes, is that there are a lot of options, and making your home smarter can get expensive. Now a company has come up with the Smarthome Estimate that determines the cost of automating your home for you. Read More»   Alarm.com IPO A Watershed Moment For The Connected Home Market There was a time in the residential security market when having home automation features to go along with window and door contacts and motion detectors was simply a "nice to have" rather than a "must have" offering. The industry has evolved to the point, however, where even the term "home automation" is passé, having given way to the more commonly used terminology of "connected home" or "smart home" space in which security is part of much bigger overall solution for today's homeowners. The growing prevalence of this technology was further reinforced late last month when Alarm.com, one of the dominant players in the smart home space, launched an initial public offering on the NASDAQ. Read More»     Top Headlines     Here's What It's Like To Control Your Lights With Siri » Home Automation Market To Grow To $21.67 Billion In 2020 » Ecobee's HomeKit Thermostat Hits Retail » New Series Connects Engineers With Automation »     Around The Web     TiO Takes Training On The Road » Blossom Smart Watering Controller Review » Apple's HomeKit Is Promising, But It Needs More Work » Vote For The TWICE VIP Awards In Home Automation! » Products Industry Research Retail Subscribe Visit The Site   Advertise Contact Us Send this to a friend       ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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