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- LifeMedia Servers on the Way
- DIGITAL HOME News Service (5/23/2007)
- Less than two months after one of its leading partners said it would stop making a product that was important to its home control solution, Exceptional Innovation said this week it would make similar products itself.
- Sony Delivers Big Sound in Micro Home Theater System
- PRNewswire (5/23/2007)
- SAN DIEGO, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Delivering big sound in a small package, Sony today introduced the DAV-IS10 micro home theater system.The system, matched with a compact, single disc DVD/CD player/receiver, includes a unique subwoofer that helps the tiny speakers create sounds typically reserved for full size speakers."Today, consumers want home theater products that are unobtrusive and easily integrate into the home's decor," said Jeff Goldstein, vice president of Sony Electronics' consumer audio group.
- Digital Home: Switch Pitch
- BIG BUILDER Magazine (5/22/2007)
- Volume builders abhor complexity. Complexity means problems, and problems lead to work orders, and work orders to increased costs. This is one reason big builders haven't rushed to embrace whole-house control systems that have flowed onto the market in the past several years (well, that and the fact the average home buyer is not exactly clamoring for them).
- Get a Sharp Picture of New Television Options
- Tulsa World (5/19/2007)
- Dear Action Line: What are digital television, high-definition television and enhanced-definition television, and how do we shop for these new television sets? Digital picture quality: The Federal Communications Commission says the necessary equipment can be bought as integrated sets or as separate components to be connected.Digital television monitors purchased without integrated tuners require stand-alone tuners, cable set-top boxes or satellite set-top boxes to watch digital television.
- Wayne-Dalton Rolls Out Additional Z-Wave Offerings
- ebuild (5/16/2007)
- Consumers seeking the convenience and safety of remote home access through the Z-Wave network can open the door to whole-house automation. Offered by Wayne-Dalton, a leading garage door and opener manufacturer, consumers seeking to simplify the process can purchase kits ranging from starter to professional. All Wayne-Dalton Z-Wave-enabled products and kits can be seamlessly integrated with any pre-existing Z-Wave enabled devices in the home.
- Rural Fast-Internet Service Expands
- Tulsa World (5/15/2007)
- Beginning this month, AT&T Inc. will offer service through a WildBlue Communications satellite. City residents take for granted high-speed Internet services, but broadband is not so easy to come by for people who live in rural areas, officials say. "There are some spots in Tulsa, Collinsville and Claremore that can't get high-speed Internet services," said Ryan Sullivan, owner and general manager of Sully Satellite, a regional provider of satellite telecommunications services to residential and commercial markets.
- Rural Fast-Internet Service Expands: Beginning This Month, AT&T Inc. Will Offer Service Through a WildBlue Communications Satellite.
- Tulsa World (5/15/2007)
- May 15--City residents take for granted high-speed Internet services, but broadband is not so easy to come by for people who live in rural areas, officials say. "There are some spots in Tulsa, Collinsville and Claremore that can't get high-speed Internet services," said Ryan Sullivan, owner and general manager of Sully Satellite, a regional provider of satellite telecommunications services to residential and commercial markets. Beginning this month, rural Oklahomans have another broadband alternative after AT&T Inc., the nation's largest telecommunications company, reached an agreement with Denver-based WildBlue Communications Inc. to deploy high-speed Internet service via WildBlue's satellite.
- Actiontec Simplifies Home Networking With MegaPlug AV, New Powerline Networking Kit Based on Next-Gen HomePlug AV Standard
- Business Wire (5/15/2007)
- Actiontec Electronics today released the MegaPlug AV 200 Mbps Ethernet Adapter Kit, a next-generation powerline networking solution based on the new HomePlug AV standard for distributing large entertainment and data files around the home without the expense of pulling Ethernet cable. Multiple MegaPlug AV adapters can be used to connect computers, set top boxes and other devices over existing home electrical wiring for high-speed transfer of conventional data files as well as HDTV or standard definition TV programs or movies, photo albums, music collections, and other rich media.Each MegaPlug AV kit comes with two Ethernet adapters that can be used either to build a new home network or to extend an existing network to areas of the house that are difficult to reach with Ethernet cabling or wireless signals.
- Smart Homeruns Itself
- Pantagraph (5/12/2007)
- Joe Laskowski doesn't like stale coffee. So he turned his little Lake Bloomington summer cabin into a 6,000-square-foot smart house where he starts the coffee by tapping a palm-sized screen on the nightstand.Joe Laskowski's control system sends a signal over the wiring to switches and other devices he wants to control.
- On-Q/Legrand Beefs Up LyriQ Audio
- DIGITAL HOME News Service (5/10/2007)
- On-Q/Legrand, manufacturer of home technology, this week added the new LyriQ High Performance Keypad to its whole-house audio system.
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