Electric Sheep: IBM Invents Brain Chip
According to the BBC, researchers believe this technology could be the foundation of artificial intelligence. IBM’s project leader, Dharmendra Modha, intended on... Read More
Dodgy Kenwood Car Gear Under Investigation By ACCC Faulty Bluetooth & Sat Nav
According to several dealers that SmartHouse has spoken to several Kenwood Car Kits are suffering from “severe” Bluetooth problems with users unable... Read More
AMX Converts Cisco Phones Into Automation Remotes
Current CP-7965G and CP-7975G phones evolve through AMX’s NXV-CPI, which manages the relationship between your Cisco phone and the office’s projectors, audio... Read More
Get Smart: Smart Meters Industry To Explode By $12B
Click to enlarge That’s according to In-Stat research, which says smart meter revenues will eclipse US$12 billion by 2016 worldwide, including Oz.... Read More
RTiPanel App Makes Remote Automation Simple
Click to enlarge RTiPanel on iPad Once installed on any of these products, users will have control over their automation systems remotely... Read More
Googles Self Driving Car Crashes: The First Of Many?
The Gi-normous internet company has been hard at work developing automated cars that drive themselves, reports jalopnik.com. So far they’ve done a... Read More
Dealers Chase Down Apple Automation Systems For OZ
One US Company that has been approached by Australian distributors is ClareHome automation systems which are owned by Clare Controls. Their system... Read More
Telstra To Demonstrate Control4 Home Automation In New Stores
The deal comes as the US IP automation Company, doubles their business in Australia following a controversial split with their former distributor... Read More
New ILVE Oven Helps Out With The Cleaning
The 60cm Pyrolytic oven cleans itself by literally turning cooking remains to ash by exposing them to temperatures as high as 465°C.... Read More
Logitech Sued Over Harmony Remote Patents
Logitech who last year had to bail out of the Google TV market, is being sued for 17 patent breaches relating to... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Push Controls Set To Crank Up Apple Automation
Scheduled to make a keynote presentation in Sydney, Push Controls Managing director Ben Green confirmed the company has established key relationships with executives... Read More
Apple Tipped To Enter TV & Home Automation Market
UBS analyst Maynard Um said that the move into home automation could expand the capitalisation of Apple who is currently witnessing a... Read More
Broadband & Mobiles Fuel Billion Dollar Smart House Industry
Home automation systems are becoming more popular on the back of the consumer pull for wireless smartphone control on iPhones and iPads... Read More
Mobotix DualDome Combines 2 Cams For Dynamic Security
Rather than taking a single wide-angle lens, the D14 features two 3.1 megapixel cameras that can be adjusted to either monitor a... Read More
HD Face Ideal For Custom Installers
Talk about high-tech simplicity. Citrix Australia yesterday offered to demonstrate to CDN its new HDFaces “telepresence for everyone” videoconferencing system with a... Read More
Creating The Apple iRoom At Home With The iDock
Rather than having a fixed wall-mounted control box, iRoom lets users use the growing number of home automation apps cropping up onto... Read More
Time to Opt For Smart Energy & Security, Says Ovum
This is the finding from new research conducted by telecoms analyst, Ovum, to gain insight on the uptake of new connected home... Read More
Home Automation Systems Set To Boom
This is according to new research published by ABI Research, which says the addressable market which is currently seeing shipments of around... Read More
Alloys Launches Modular Approach To Home Automation
Using a modular approache based around the product portfolio of US-based HAI Home Automation, the company recently launched an interactive modular concept... Read More
Crestron & Savant slug It Out In Court
Home automation Company Savant Systems who made their first appearance at the CEDIA Expo earlier this month appears to be getting right... Read More
Push Controls On Call For Oz Channel Partners
Click to enlarge At Cedia 2011, the company launched a new graphic user interface for installers called Generation II, and has developed... Read More
Steve Jobs Neighbour Talks About Future Technology
A custom installer to the rich and famous in Silicon Valley, Green claims that we have to look at what kids are... Read More
Big Dollars In Remote Energy Management & Services For Homes
The international research firm’s report Residential Energy Management 2011: Trends and Opportunities claims that 13 percent of households will have some type... Read More
Arch Enemy Targets Control 4
The new automation brand will be launched at the 2011 CEDIA Expo which opens today in Sydney at Daring Harbour. Teletask who has... Read More
IPTV, NBN, Power Management Live Presentations At CEDIA 2011
In an effort to help the consumer electronics and specialist installer industry understand where technology is going ChannelNews... Read More
QualiFi Grabs Universal Controls
Click to enlarge The top remote in the US, Universal Remotes (URC) has sold 50 million devices there in the last decade... Read More
Dodgy Solar Performance Claims Risk Criminal Prosecution
Solar retailers and suppliers must substantiate performance claims, and any business making misleading, deceptive or false claims about solar energy products risk civil and... Read More
Kiss Me, I’m Online
Click to enlarge And it’s not just lip movements alone. The students from Japan’s Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications want... Read More
CEDIA Checks Out Global Technology Trends
While the buzz over 3D, tablets and other hot technologies has been a global phenomenon, CEDIA, the leading authority on residential electronic... Read More
Textually Active Youth Take To The Wheel
The poll, conducted by US magazine Consumer Reports, says 63 percent of respondents who are under 30 said they had used a... Read More
Black Market For Philips Pronto Remotes Emerges
Earlier this year Philips shut down their global Pronto business, after talks with Michael Henriksen, the CEO of Qualifi in Australia, and... Read More
CEDIA Members & Independant Retailers Need To Change
Home Entertainment Source Vice President, Jim Ristow told a packed audience that retailers, in particular independents like CEDIA members, need to “diversify”... Read More
Russound Slammed Over Colorado VNet Debacle
SmartHome Distribution, took on the Colorado VNet product when it was first launched three years ago and after investing significant amounts of... Read More
New iPad iPhone Security For Your Next SmartHouse
Who could it be? Whip out the iPad or iPhone 4, and you instantly recognise your neighbour Melanie, shown in crystal clear... Read More
Control4 Competitor Back In Business With iPad App
As part of the relaunch, the automation company has produced a new iPad app and is set to release several new products.... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: Cisco Tips Millions Into Control4
Overnight Cisco announced a $25M investment in the IP based automation company who have been on the hunt of late for investors... Read More
Webinars Target Pronto And Nevo Dealers
Click to enlarge URC’s family of networking products The free webinars are available to all Pronto and Nevo dealers and will be... Read More
Russound Set To Move Into The Cloud VNet Technology Back In Play
Last week Russound poached Tom McCarthy the former Vice President of Engineering at Nile to head product development at Russound. McCarthy will... Read More
HAI Updates Multi-Room Audio Control With iPhone App
Click to enlarge The Version 1.2 software update adds control over HAI’s new Hi-Fi 2 multi-room audio system, and its Music Gateway... Read More
Homeowners Benefit From More 4Store Apps
At CES 2011, the company announced new additions to its 4Store that enable users to achieve a whole lot more functionality from... Read More
Philips Shipping iPad Type Touchscreen Despite Shut Up Shop Notice
It appears to be business as usual for the Philips Pronto Division, after the European Company shipped samples of their new in-wall... Read More
EU Plays Role In Future Of Philips Pronto Remote Control Business
ChannelNews has been told that Philips has been trying to move their Pronto remote control manufacturing business outside of Europe for some... Read More
EXCLUSIVE:Philips Kill Off Pronto Remote Business But Forgot To Tell Distributors
As of yesterday Qualifi had not been told that the Philips remote control business was being shut down effective immediately due to... Read More
Logitech Harmony Remotes $300 More Expensive Than Same US Model
See original story here. The move comes as vendors like Sony, Panasonic, Samsung and LG start to give away free, applications that... Read More
Harmony Remotes Replaced By Free Phone & Tablet Remotes
Already devices like the Harmony remote are starting to look old hat and expensive at up to $500, as vendors such as... Read More
Yale Teams Up With Control4 To Launch New Security Locks
Control4 has teamed up with Yale locks to deliver a new security system for the home. Revealed at the 2010 CEDIA Expo... Read More
Swann Home Security Now More Affordable
Swann Magnetic Keypad Alarm The Home Series Alarm Range includes a variety of window, door and general motion detection alarms that emit... Read More
Philips Launch iPad Competitor That Fits In A Wall
The company also plans to launch, early in 2011, a new black box control device that will sit in a home automation... Read More
Control4 Slashes Touch Display Screen Prices
Control4 who recently appointed a new distributor in Australia is set to slash the price of their IP enabled in-wall home-automation touch... Read More
Crestron To Lauch iPad Dock
Last week we revealed that Creston has come out with a new 6 button track pad remote control device in an effort... Read More