Sonos Inks Integration Partnerships with Control Companies
Today's Top Business Story - 08.31.16
Sonos Inks Integration Partnerships with Control Companies A plethora of partners have come onboard with wireless audio leader Sonos, including mainstream brands like Amazon, Spotify, and Airbnb, as well as big names in custom integration—Crestron, Control4, Lutron, and Savant. At a New York City press event on Tuesday, Sonos CMO Joy Howard enthusiastically announced the company’s expansion through custom integrators, “who share our vision for the connected home.” Read full story »
Top 5 Reasons to Enter the CEDIA Best of Show TODAY By Jeremy J. Glowacki NewBay Media is in the final hours of accepting submissions for its annual Best of Show Awards, honoring outstanding products exhibited at CEDIA. Awards will be given by NewBay Media publications TWICE and Residential Systems magazines. In case you're a manufacturer that has been undecided about entering the awards, here are my top five reasons to do it. Read full story »
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It's Almost Labor Day. Time to Form a CEDIA 2016 Game Plan By Todd Anthony Puma It's that time of year again. Labor Day is this weekend, which means that CEDIA is just a couple of short weeks away. I'm all booked for Dallas, my work schedule that week has been cleared of anything critical, and I'm getting psyched up for walking the show floor again (and letting all of you know what I find that's cool and interesting). From Innovation Alley to the most established players like Pakedge, URC, Anthem/Paradigm, Clare Controls, Control4, Savant, and many others, I'll have my schedule booked solid. Read full story »
Webinar: 15 Things You Can't Miss at CEDIA 2016 Attend this free, one-hour webinar, moderated by the editors of Residential Systems and Systems Contractor News, for a deep-dive into 15 new product highlights at CEDIA 2016. This year's show will feature more product introductions than you can possibly process, but don't get bogged down by news you can't use. Read full story »
Quote of the Day
"When we unveiled the first models of 3G Ultra HD over IP hardware at CEDIA 2015, integrators loved that they overcame the difficulty of distributing 4K devices throughout homes with a mix of new 4K displays and legacy 1080p displays. Yet they didn't always need all of the features supported by the first models we launched last year. This led us to create a more competitively priced baseline transmitter and receiver model that keep the most popular and essential features."--Ed Qualls, founder and president of Just Add Power