According to The Register, SoftBank Mobile of Japan is offering free ADSL and free femtocell to anyone who will let SoftBank install a femtocell in their home or business, but customers will still have pay for mobile calls. The free femtocells on offer are made by Ubiquisys and are back by Google.
Duke Energy today announced it has signed an agreement with Cisco – a worldwide leader in networking technology -- to pilot and further develop a smart grid-enabled home energy management solution that will provide Duke Energy customers with secure and reliable energy information and a simple-to-use tool to help them reduce the amount of energy wasted in their homes.
Pioneer has release six new Elite AV Receivers for us to take advantage of the latest in digital home connectivity and media sharing. The main attractions in the new Elite range are the VSX-30, VSX-31 and flagship SC-37, together they offer the best in enjoying digital sound and home theater experience, at a price that can suit your budget. According to Pioneer the new range do the thinking for the home theater, by offering connectivity features to streamline and del
The Carbon Design Group has collaborated with Artefact Group in what I called “cool design meets home energy management”. Both companies came together to create the Impact series of connected home appliances. The series consists of the Impact Clock, Impact Refrigerator and Impact Dish Washer. Project Impact has won a silver International Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs) for 2010 for Artefact.
With an $11 million equity injection lead by Craton Equity Partners Green Wave Reality has announced plans to start pushing its home energy management platform into Europe, North America and Asia. The platform, according to Green Wave Reality is easy to use, affordable, an open standards-based platform and will enhances utility companies' relationship with their customers and better balance energy on the Grid while helping consumers to conserve energy and save money in return.
The days of copying your favourite songs and movies to take with us on the road will soon be a thin of the past. That is because PacketVideo has joined up with JDM Sytems Consultant to extent its popular Twonky digital media connectivity solution to the Car. PacketVideo announced that they are working with JDM on a voice activated system to access digital content at home.
4Home and Marvell have developed a new energy management solution on the Plug Computer to compete in the home energy management market. The solution is a combination of 4Home’s connected home services software and Marvell’s integrated silicon solution. It is based on the SheevaPlug, powered by Marvell’s Sheeva CPU Technology and 4Home’s ControlPoint software.
India’s Bharti Airtel has selected Dolby Digital Plus as the surround sound format for its new HD Direct-to-Home service and set-top boxes. According to Dobly Laboratories, Bharti Airtel chose their audio format as part of their plans to offer customers HD content with up to 7.1 channels of surround sound.
Western Digital TV Live HD media player has become the first network media player to be compatible with Windows 7, the latest version of Microsoft desktop operation system. Along with its popular features, such as Full-HD 1080p resolution, network capability and the ability for anyone to play media stored on network drives and USB, any PC on the home network, as well as content from popular websites, on your Television.You can now get WD TV Live HD media player to play media files from you PC/Laptop to your big screen HDTV.
Ip.access has teamed up with Alertmd to demonstrate how Femtocell can be integrated in smart home energy management solutions. By integrating ip.access’ Femtocell technology with AlertMe Energy Service the system automatically detects when phones enter or leaves the house and can therefore turn off lights, radio, television and other home appliances automatically when the house is empty and switch then back on when you return.