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Smart@Home Solution For Consumers
White Papers The Residential Gateway is the platform for the OSGi software layer and a central element of the smart@Home solution. Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate (B/S/H) is Europe´s market leader in white good appliances and always far ahead of competition in...
[November 19, 2004, 23:00]
C.P. Technology Pursues Smart Home Market With WebSphere Software From IBM
White Papers Technology identified a major need for a communications infrastructure that would allow users to manage home systems and devices remotely. The WebSphere software serves as the foundation for C.P.s new IA product, providing convenient Web and mobile...
[November 19, 2004, 23:00]
Toshiba Tipped To Unwrap E-fridge
News The smart-home appliance market is expected to show strong growth in the next few years, with many manufacturers working on new devices. Japanese consumer electronics giant Toshiba is reportedly close to beginning to sell a range of Internet...
[January 3, 2002, 15:05]
Home Networking Spreads Round Globe
News LG Electronics, one of Korea's largest firms, is rushing to become a leader in smart home products in untapped markets outside Japan and Korea, according to The Korea Herald. More recently, Panasonic has said it plans to start selling a "smart home...
[August 8, 2003, 10:25]
Government Wants Your View On Smart Cards
News A Cabinet Office spokeswoman told ZDNet UK that the smart card work was not related to the Home Office's work on entitlement or ID cards. Our smart card consultation addresses any smart card scheme within the public sector, while Home Office is...
[July 31, 2003, 15:25]
Korean Homes To Gain Smart Makeover
News When completed in 2007, families will be able to access a range of online services from smart home appliances as well as computers. The huge Korean conglomerates of LG, Samsung and Hyundai have also invested heavily in smart home networks.
[October 22, 2003, 10:55]
Microsoft Mira Hung Up On Licensing
News From the login screen, a user can access any PC set up to connect to the smart display, so that, for example, the display could be used to control one PC at home and a different one at work. Microsoft is to launch its latest foray into the consumer...
[November 28, 2002, 14:44]
Microsoft Wants To Wire Homes
News What's more, Bill Gates spent much of his speech at the last Comdex confab talking about releasing smart objects for the home, including connected kitchen appliances Microsoft is one of eight new companies joining a group dedicated to promoting the...
[July 9, 2003, 10:50]
Comdex: It's A Wireless Thing
News While tablet PCs are meant for business users, Microsoft is aiming its smart displays at the home, offering people a more portable way to grab information off their PC. Wireless networking, particularly Wi-Fi, along with the home and office devices...
[November 14, 2002, 12:23]
The Kitchen Gets Connected
News Bill Gates spent much of his speech at the last Comdex confab talking about smart objects for the home, including connected kitchen appliances. Although products such as "smart" refrigerators and kitchen Web devices have long been derided as uncool...
[March 27, 2003, 8:03]
ID Cards: The Full Story
News This week the home secretary, David Blunkett, committed the government to the phased introduction of a national, biometric identity card that could be compulsory in ten years. The Home Office consulted about the introduction of identity cards, and...
[November 13, 2003, 12:30]
XP's Smart Display Enables Double Vision
News Microsoft plans to retool its Windows XP operating system so that two people can run applications on the same machine concurrently, an important step toward the company's goal of transforming the PC into a home entertainment centre.
[May 8, 2003, 13:39]
US Report: Netscape's Netcenter Fails To Impress
News Those features include a personalised home page, "My Netscape," an array of content channels and a set of features (called "Smart Browsing") that make it easier to get around on the Web. Smart Browsing" ties Netscape's browser into Netcenter, which...
[June 2, 1998, 9:33]
Microsoft To Fix Mira's Cracks
News An update of Microsoft's Smart Display technology will address shortcomings in the initial version, which Bill Gates is due to launch late on Wednesday during his keynote speech at the CES show in Las Vegas.
[January 8, 2003, 13:58]
Tomorrow's Tech At Microsoft Innovation Day
News This is the "Smart Board" developed by Living Tomorrow along with Microsoft. It's a large touchscreen with a range of widget-like apps designed to be used in the home. You can also interact with the Smart Board by using the touchscreen to write the...
[December 6, 2007, 16:30]
CE Family Welcomes Mira
News Microsoft says that the software technology previously known as Mira will now be known as Windows CE for Smart Displays. The tablet devices themselves will be known as Windows-powered smart displays. That's because Mira devices take advantage of...
[June 27, 2002, 10:03]
Microsoft Launches Home Networking Hardware
News Still, Microsoft is jumping into the home networking market at an important time. This is laying the big pipes.the network infrastructure for the home," said Gartner analyst Mike McGuire. Cahners In-Stat predicts a huge jump in worldwide home...
[September 19, 2002, 15:50]
Microsoft Makes Hard Decisions Easier
Blog One of the really interesting questions for us OEMs as we make our smart gadgets, PCs and the like is what software to put on them. Microsoft has been forced to admit that one of its major pushes into the home sector, the Windows Home Server, sold...
[December 27, 2007, 22:21]
Wireless Credit Card In Development
News Royal Philips Electronics and Visa announced on Wednesday an alliance to promote and develop a contactless chip technology, a short-range wireless technology that would allow people to pay for goods by waving a smart card in front of a sensor.
[May 29, 2003, 11:20]
BT To Build Common Standards Into Home-network Kit
News British Telecom has turned to US startup Home Wireless Networks (HWN) to supply it with the necessary technology to turn its vision of "Interactive Homes" into a reality, in the hope that UK homes are ready to move into the digital era.
[September 7, 1999, 11:14]
