Phone.com announced on Tuesday the launched of its new hosted High Definition (HD) phone service for home offices and other small businesses. The new High Definition Business Phone service is an add-on to Phone.com's successful Virtual Office service. With the new service home offices will get phone menus, extension dialing, sophisticated call routing, professional welcome greetings, voicemail and fax.
HSTouch integrates tightly with all HomeSeer-based automation systems and the screens are fully customizable to work with virtually all backgrounds, buttons and graphics. An integrated RSS browser is also included for easy access popular data feeds for weather, news, sports and stock information.
FREEVOLVE, the designer and manufacturer of housEvolve, the first remote home access system, is very happy to announce they are partnering with Smarthome to expand distribution of their product line. Smarthome, a division of SmartLabs, Inc., was founded in 1992 and specializes in the distribution of home automation products. With more than 5,000 products available, Smarthome’s sales channels include Smarthome.com, their award-winning direct mail catalog and their brick and mortar retail store located in Irvine, CA.
Sony Europe has announced its latest PC for the digital home. The new system is base on the VAIO L Series, with premium HD home entertainment, Chic, space-saving all-in-one design, Super-size, high resolution 24” LCD touchscreen for intuitive fingertip control. The system is due in the shops from the 22nd of October 2009. So put off your Christmas PC purchase until you see the VAIO L Series all-in-one computer.
Perceptive Automation has announced the release of Indigo version 4.1. According to Perceptive Automation this new version is an update to the company's intelligent home control and automation server for Mac OS X. The Indigo software is a whole home automation system that can manage your lawn sprinklers, home appliances, lights, thermostats and many more equipment and appliances that can be manage – thereby helping you to save energy and money.
NEC Electronics America, today announced it will highlight the breadth and depth of its smart energy and liquid crystal display (LCD) module offerings at Embedded Systems Conference Boston 2009 (booth #701), September 22-23, at the Hynes Convention Center. The demonstrations will rangefrom smart home, solar and smart metering solutions to emerging LCD technologies such as e-paper, and 2D/3D and light emitting diode (LED) backlit LCD modules.
QNAP Systems expanded their Turbo NAS lineup with the addition of the TS-419P desktop and TS-419U rack-mounted NAS servers. The TS-419P and TS-419U feature 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives with up to 8TB of total capacity and supports 2.5" or 3.5" hard drives, giving users more flexibility in selecting drives for installation. The TS-419P and TS-419U feature a Marvell 1.2GHz CPU and 512MB DDRII memory which provides sustained high performance with lower power consumption.
To help safeguard treasured family memories, photos and music, LG Electronics has introduced a new Network Attached Storage. LG's Network Attached Storage (NAS) model N2R1 uses a proven system of multiple hard drives used for sharing and replicating data to prevent possible damage or loss. Called RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Discs), this system automatically backs up and restores files for added security in the event of a hardware failure.
Intamac Systems, a specialist in Connected Home services through the web and mobile devices, announced that they have secured a £1million funding to support the development of a range of Zigbee controlled consumer devices. The new Zigbee devices will be part of the companies Smart Grid power management services and will be managed through Intamac's award-winning web-based Home Manager™ service.
Sigma Designs, a leader in digital media processing system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for consumer electronics, today announced a partnership with 4Home, Inc., a leading provider of home control services, to expand the range of additional services in the home through Sigma’s set-top box (STB) reference designs. As a result of this partnership, Sigma will be able to offer set-top box suppliers an integrated home control solution, based on 4Home’s innovative software platform and the complete Z-Wave ecosystem of RF-based home control devices. The reference design is being unveiled at this year's CableLabs® Summer Conference, August 10 - 11, in Keystone, Colorado.