Latest smart home News
ViacomCBS Expects 16 Million Streaming Video Subscribers in 2020
Viacom owns CBS All Access and Showtime, and the firm expects combined paid subscriber growth to continue skyrocketing this year. […]
Rethinking Whole-House Audio: IKEA Symfonisk Wi-Fi Bookshelf Speakers
As you may recall, IKEA and Sonos announced a small lineup of Symfonisk-branded smart speakers in April 2019 and then […]
Xiaomi is Back on Google Home and Nest
Almost two weeks after Google disabled Xiaomi’s access to its Assistant and Home and Nest devices after a security breach, […]
Rethinking Whole-House Audio: Bluetooth Adapter
In Rethinking Whole-House Audio (Premium), I wrote about the issues I’ve been having with Chromecast Audio and my desire to […]
Rethinking Whole-House Audio (Premium)
I try to steer clear of knee-jerk reactions, but the allegations in Sonos v. Google are troubling. Worse, I’ve been […]
Amazon Fire TV Has Over 40 million Active Users
Amazon has announced a major new milestone for Fire TV as it expands the technology to in-car entertainment and more. […]
Google Disables Xiaomi Access to Assistant, Home, and Nest
Google has temporarily disabled Xiaomi’s access to its Assistant and Home and Nest devices after a security breach: The Chinese […]
Apple Open Sources Some of HomeKit
As part of its partnership in the Connected Home over IP alliance, Apple said that it would open-source some of […]