A new technology startup – FutureDash, based in California has launch a new product called GreenDash; a new home energy management software. The GreenDash software will allow consumer network and electronics manufactures to easily add energy monitoring to their products, which would make it easy for home owners to see their energy usage in real-time.
MIPS and Yahoo have partnered to develop a platform with Yahoo Widgets already integrated. The agreement is that MIPS will develop an optimised reference platform running the Yahoo Widget Engine for digital TV and set-top box applications. This partnership will enable vendors to develop consumer solutions based on the MIPS architecture incorporating Yahoo Widget Engine.
Packet Video the company that gave us TwonkyMedia Server is at it again. This time with the release of TwonkyServer Mobile, Design specifically for Android handsets, TwonkyServer Mobile transforms your handset into a media sharing server.
At this month’s Consumer Electronic show LG Electronics unveiled a new range of Network Blu-ray Players. The new players are the first to feature integrated 250GB hard drive, allowing for storage and instant playback of music, photos, personal videos from the web or with its USB Media Plus lets you view family photos, watch videos and listen to music from USB storage devices.
IPTV operators with Motorola NBBS can now provide additional services to customers with Mediaroom certified set-top-box. According to Motorola Home and Network Mobility, they have expanded the NBBS remote device management software platform to include Microsoft Mediaroom certified set-top-box, to enable operator to accelerate the introduction of new revenue-generating high-definition IP video experience.
At this year’s Consumer Electronic show CyWee announced the release of its new wireless and motion sensing technology. They are the CyWee Z wireless 3D Game Controller, the CyWee Media Browser and the CyWee X wireless HDMI Gateway. All system comes with first of its king features.
Roku recently added two more devices to its range of media streamers; these were the Roku SD and Roku HD-XR media players. The Roku media players allow you to stream instant entertainment from Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand and MLB.tv. The Roku players come in three different price range $79.99, $99.99, $129.99. Roku also announced that they will be launching a channel store where customers can add new content channels to their Roku device.
With the release of its Persona platform Broadcom is promising to boost user’s multimedia experience, because hosted inside the Persona are two of Broadcom's latest in multimedia and communication chip technology. These are the BCM11211, a communication processor and the BCM1181, a multimedia processor which enables full featured multimedia application and advance capabilities such as 3D graphics and high quality audio experience. The Persona is
The new Wiser connected home control solution will allow household to interlink multimedia, television and electric into one user friendly solution. Wiser allows you connect your home security, audiovisual, irrigation system, air conditioning, lighting control, motorized blinds and much man will be integrated into one solution that can be access from a user panel within the home and from anywhere via a 3G enabled devices.
At last week’s CE (Consumer Electronic) Show in Las Vegas D-Link under the theme “Link Your Life” announced and demonstrated some of its latest in connected home technology. The innovations covered Home Entertainment, Home Security and Home Connectivity. According to D-Link the solutions are affordable and easy to setup, so consumer can start implementing then now.