About a year ago, Google said it would pay $3.2 billion for Nest, a company that had sold fewer than a million connected thermostats and fewer than 440,000 connected smoke detectors… Read more »
I thought we’d be over hubs by now, but I was wrong. They are still coming hot and heavy, and if the Consumer Electronics Show was any indication, there are still more… Read more »
Jawbone launched Jawbone Marketplace on Wednesday, a site that lets users purchase devices and services that take advantage of Jawbone’s fitness tracking and data syncing capabilities. Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman said at Gigaom’s… Read more »
The headline du jour for the Federal Trade Commission’s report on the Internet of Things is that the agency recommends Congress should come up with some sort of technology-neutral law to… Read more »
Misfit, the makers of a variety of well-designed activity trackers is embracing the smarthome. First it showed off the Bolt connected light bulbs at CES, and now it has signed several… Read more »
One downside of having products that require cloud services in order to work is that the physical objects can suddenly become obsolete. Over the weekend, Dropcam announced a “legacy camera replacement program,” which means that… Read more »
Air conditioning giant Carrier Corp. has made an undisclosed minority equity investment in Ecobee, the smart thermostat maker. The investment comes after the two had collaborated to create a new Wi-Fi-enabled… Read more »
Car giant Ford held the grand opening for its new Silicon Valley research center on Thursday. There, the company will work on the future of digital technologies for its cars, from… Read more »
A growing number of people have a connected device or three in their home, but don’t really want to trouble themselves with a home automation hub or sensors or programming a… Read more »