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  • HAI Snap-Link Wins 2007 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award
  • ebuild (2/9/2007)
  • HAI, the leading manufacturer of integrated automation and security products since 1985, announces that the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has awarded HAI's Snap-Link with a 2007 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award in the Integrated Home Systems category.
  • HAI Announces New Released Version 2.14
  • ebuild (2/9/2007)
  • HAI announces that it has now released Version 2.14 for its PC Access Software. This new release is the first version of PC Access that supports Windows Vista. This software update now incorporates the features released in our recent Omni-family firmware release 2.14.
  • Residential Install: AV Enhances Luxury Home
  • Pro AV Magazine (2/6/2007)
  • Challenge: Design and integrate expansive home theater and intelligent lighting systems in new home with components such monitors and fixtures located flush within walls and ceilings. Solution: Keep a project manager onsite and maintain constant collaboration with general contractor so that building construction meets AV and lighting needs.
  • Over 90 percent of Cable Digital Phone  Subscribers Can Now Use Their Digital Phone  Service to Transmit ADT Alarm Signals from Their  Homes or Businesses ADT Expands List of Next Generation Phone Services Providers That Can Support Security System Monitoring
  • ebuild (2/6/2007)
  • ADT Security Services, a unit of Tyco Fire & Security, today announced that more than 25 IP-based telephone services providers located throughout the United States have confirmed their phone networks meet the characteristics required by ADT to be a primary method of transmitting alarm signals to ADT's Customer Monitoring Centers. Together, the companies represent nearly all of the digital phone services markets and provide coverage to nearly every region of the United States.
  • The Skinny on TVs
  • Arizona Daily Star (2/3/2007)
  • Ready to upgrade to a big-screen flat-panel for the big game? Whether you're a Colts fan or you love da Bears - or even if you're just in it for the commercials and the seven-layer dip - chances are you'll be glued to the television Sunday for Super Bowl XLI.The rush has been larger since the Super Bowl has been broadcast in high-def and the prices for the previously almost prohibitively expensive flat-panel LCD and plasma TVs have dropped - about 40 percent in the past year.
  • Security Sees The Light
  • DIGITAL HOME MAGAZINE (2/2/2007)
  • Lighting control manufacturer Lutron Electronics this week rolled out a new security-focused version of its AuroRa wireless lighting system. According to officials at the Coopersburg, Pa., company, the security package is designed to work with the lighting controls to trigger visual alerts in the event of an emergency.
  • An Easy Way to Connect Devices, TV: Switch Lets You Feed Two HDMI Cables into a Single Jack
  • The Dallas Morning News (2/2/2007)
  • Feb. 2--As high-definition set-top boxes, video game consoles, DVD players and other video peripherals accumulate in your TV cabinet, it can be tough to find enough plugs on your television to connect all those device simultaneously. That's especially true if those boxes all have high-end HDMI connections, since a lot of HD televisions only include one or two of those jacks. The little boxes connect multiple HDMI devices into a single connection and then run a single cable to your television.

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