Boxee announced that they have licences the RoxioNow entertainment platform from Sonic Solutions.  Boxee said the alliance is to give the public more options to access premium content for a range of connected devices.  The RoxioNow platform will be Boxee’s choice platform to its web-to-TV desktop application, as well as upcoming set-top boxes, mobile devices and TVs.*
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Starting this week owners of the DNS-323 ShareCenter Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution can backup their data to an external storage solution provider online. That is because D-Link has updated the DNS-323 with support for online backup services by CTERA, to safeguard against data loss. The service is totally automated and does not require PC software installation and works automatically directly from the NAS appliance. Read more »

At this week’s Home Technology Show in London, Carlo Gavazzi previewed their smart-house home automation solution,  a web server application that allows you to access, manage, control and monitored it from anywhere in the world.  Home owners will be able to securely login to the smart-house system and control lighting, scene setting and curtain control they also will be able to view or adjust (actual temperature, temperature set points and real-time values). Read more »

Intamac a supplier of internet access monitoring and control solution has received £4 million invested funding from a group of London based investors.  The group includes Chados Capital Ventures, Carbon Trust Investment and Seraphim Capital.  Intamac recently announced a home monitoring solution with D-Link and has an ongoing relationship with British Telecom, Technicolor, Alcatel Lucent, and IAG. Read more »

The new UnitiQute from Naim is the ultimate in modern compact entertainment system. The list of features and design make it easy for you to fall in love with it. It features the latest in connectivity and interoperability. The UnitiQute All-in-one Player joins Naim’s growing list of home entertainment solutions that are changing the way we consume our digital media.
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The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) today announced the ratification of MoCA 2.0,  giving OEM and operators a clear roadmap for them to invest and develop technologies that will serve the gorwing need for better connected devices.  The new standard will benefit technologies such as multi-room DVR, broadband extension and PC-to-TV connectivity, that will provide consumers with more robust, satisfying whole-home networking experiences. Read more »

Sony 3D capable BRAVIA HDTVs introduced at CES this year, are now available for pre-sale at Sony Style stores. Also introduced was the Blu-ray 3D capable home theater system (model BDV-HZ970W) – due out in July.  Sony is also offering a free 3D firmware update for previously released Blu-ray Disc players BDP-S470 and BDP-S570 and Home Theater Systems BDV-E570 and BDV-E770W. The BRAVIA XBR-LX900 HDTV features a built-in 3D sync transmitter and two pair of active shutter glasses out of the box. 3D ready models BRAVIA XBR-HX909 and KDL-HX800 offer the option of adding the 3D sync transmitter and glasses at an additional cost. Read more »

With a range of products and experience in electronics design TecHome has launch out on its own after five years of success under parent company HETECH. The new company will focus on home/building automation and remote control products and markets. They have also developed a suite of ZigBee based long-range, multi-channel remote control and receivers. Read more »

4Home today announced a reference home management software platform optimized for the Intel® Atom™ processor that enables the development of a variety of home networking products that can offer connected home services. The new platform is the basis for the Intel® Connected Services Gateway Reference Design that Intel will have on display at the Connectivity World tradeshow on June 15th in Chicago, demonstrating the platform’s ability to deliver new connected home services over Intel Atom processor-based platforms. Read more »

Cisco thinks that Global IP Traffic will increase more than fourfold by 2014, and that the growth in traffic will continue to be dominated by video, exceeding 91 percent of global consumer IP traffic by 2014. Improvements in network bandwidth capacity and Internet speeds, along with the increasing popularity of HDTV, 3DTV and video streaming websites are key factors expecting to quadruple IP traffic from 2009 to 2014. They have also made their prediction tool available for us to make our own predictions. Read more »