Smart Home News

Home automation trends to drive worldwide adoption
A recent study forecasts the global smart homes market to touch $13.4 billion by 2014, growing at a CAGR of 16.5% from 2009 to 2014.

Devices That Help Plug Electrical Leaks
A host of new devices can help homeowners monitor and cut back on the electricity they use at home

Google to Offer Free Phone Calls
A new feature from Google makes it clear that one day, the Internet will connect our calls.

Smart buildings make smooth moves
What if buildings could function like living systems, altering their shapes in response to changing weather conditions or the way people use them?

Samsung to extend TV-market reach with apps
Samsung, which leads global sales of TVs, is working to attract interest in its application store, which is host to a collection of Web games, video and radio services and available through its Web-enabled TVs and Blu-rays.

Digital Home Technology-India
Energy audit studies in India have indicated energy saving potential between 20 and 30 per cent in households, offices, hotels etc with use of smart and intelligent digital home solutions.

Digital-music sales slow as consumers opt for fewer iPods
Sales of Apple's iPod have been declining, a trend that is worrisome to the music industry.

Web TVs to far outpace their 3-D counterparts
Nearly seven times more Internet-enabled TVs will be shipped this year than 3-D TVs, according to research firm iSuppli.

Will pricey tablets replace laptops?
Tablet computers carrying price tags of up to $1,000 may eventually bump off laptop computers.

New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Back
Amazon introduces an e-book reader that everyone (except Amazon) calls the Kindle 3.

The flood of e-readers continues
Predictions that the launch of Apple's iPad would kill demand for dedicated e-readers have turned out to be incorrect.

More seniors using online social networking
A report by the Pew Research Center finds that social-media use among seniors almost doubled in the past year, with 42% now using social sites and one in five logging onto social networks on any given day.

Over-50s flock for daily Facebook fix
While online social networks remain havens for the young, they are also becoming increasingly popular with the over-50 crowd.