Smart Home News

TiVo doubles in size for Australians


The TiVo hard drive has now doubled in size to 320GB to meet the recording demands of consumers, according to distributor Hybrid Television Service.

Home automation set for boom as services grow


Sales of home-automation systems are expected to triple between 2008 and 2012 to a total of more than 1 million homes annually.

What Do Baby Boomers Want From Technology?

The over-50 crowd shows the highest intent to purchase consumer electronics of any age group according to a new study.

DVD sales slip as Blu-ray jumps nearly 225%


Home Media Research reported Blu-ray sales increased roughly 225% over the Thanksgiving weekend for a total of nearly $70 million.

New technologies let older homes become smarter


The heart of home automation is the ability for a homeowner to control or monitor, sometimes remotely, electrical devices in a home.

Solar power technology takes its next step

The technology behind solar energy is constantly evolving. Portable devices that charge up gadgets from the sun are becoming smaller and more powerful.

Panasonic shifting focus from TVs to 'green' buildings


Marking a philosophical shift in the way Panasonic sees the future, the electronics maker plans to invest $1 billion before 2012 to transition its principal business focus to equipping homes and buildings with solar power and energy saving technologies.

Optoma introduces home-theater projector that's 3-D-ready

Hoping to entice home-theater and gaming audiences, Optoma has debuted its first 3-D-ready HD home-theater projector, the $700 HD66.

Consumers want technology convergence


Once the province of science-fiction, technology convergence?the synergistic combination of formerly discrete technologies?is finally here in force. What will it take to begin realizing the promise suggested by latent consumer interest in converged products?

40% of N. American homes to have ultra-HDTVs by 2025


Next-generation ultra-high-definition TV sets -- the devices that will be able to deliver four to 16 times the resolution of current HDTVs -- will be in 40% of North American homes by 2025, according to a report from In-Stat.

Hollywood shares film clips with social Web


Movieclips.com lets users view clips from more than 1,200 movies, as well as rent or buy them and share those clips with friends.

Boxee, a Start-Up, to Offer a Device to Put Web Video on TV

A partnership between Boxee and the Taiwanese equipment maker D-Link hopes to keep the price of the new set-top box under $200.

Apple tablet 'due in early 2010'

APPLE is preparing to launch a tablet PC in late March or April, according to an analyst's research note.