MacBook battery controversy, Comcast smart home, Lenovo Echo?

ProAV Today   Cynthia Wisehart - Editor     Today's Top Stories - 1.3.17     1. Comcast wants in on your smart home: here's how it might get there By Roger Cheng and David Priest, CNET Yes, the nation's largest cable company, known for delivering "The Walking Dead" to your TV and making you wait hours for a repair technician, is (kinda) entering the hardware business. Comcast has unveiled its first family of products specifically designed by the company to serve its Xfinity Home business. More» Why This Matters: It seems like everyone wants in on the smart home hardware game. Here's Comcast's play. –Cynthia Wisehart   2. For the first time ever, Consumer Reports does not recommend the new MacBook Pro By Stan Schroeder, Mashable Consumer Reports, a trusted non-profit organization which thoroughly tests a variety of products, has always given its "recommended" mark to Apple's MacBook computers — until now. More» Why This Matters: And then 9 to 5 Mac countered the claims. And then Consumer Reports stood by its verdict. -Cynthia Wisehart   3. 11,000 people bought an adapter to give the new MacBook Pro the same features as the last one By Kif Leswing, Yahoo Finance Apple's latest MacBook Pro only has one kind of port, which uses the new USB-C connector, as opposed to older MacBook Pros, which had options to plug in HDMI cables, SD cards, and other useful attachments. Now companies are selling adapters that add back all the ports that some Apple users think the company should've included in the first place. More» Why This Matters: While we're on MacBooks, and if you want ports back, here's one way. -Cynthia Wisehart   4. What to expect from ES 2017 this week (Verge Staff)   5. Lenovo has made an Amazon Echo lookalike but with better speakers (Lauren Goode, The Verge)   6. Bose Professional now shipping ShowMatch DeltaQ array loudspeakers (via TheWire@SVConline)   7. InfoComm Awards applications/nominations are open   8. Call for nominations: Best AV/IT College Environments (free to enter)   9. Facebook for podcasting? Live audio comes to social network (Kerry Flynn, Mashable)   10. From TheWire@SVConline: Extron announces new AXI series Dante audio interfaces   For more, see the WHY THIS MATTERS Archive »   AV JOBS     wePresent – Regional Sales Manager, Central Region (Dallas, TX)   FIND US ONLINE     Facebook Twitter LinkedIn RebelMouse PRODUCTS MARKETS STAGING NEWS EVENTS SUBSCRIBE   Advertise Contact Us Send this to a friend       ©2017 NewBay Media, LLC

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