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The broadcaster of 30 Rock and Days of Our Lives is now offering home security. Just since last October, Xfinity from Comcast, which also owns NBC Universal, rolled out home security and monitoring; ADT, the world’s biggest home security firm, introduced a multi-level lifestyle monitoring and control service; Verizon, one of the largest U.S. communications companies, with a recent iPhone deal and a cloud computing acquisition in hand, has its own home monitoring experiment in motion; APX Alarm Security Solutions Inc., Provo, Utah,  the fifth-largest alarm monitoring company on the SDM 100, rebranded as Vivint™ and launched new products turning its focus from alarm monitoring to a focus on whole home automation and monitoring (see page 149 for more on APX’s rebrand as Vivint™). And that’s not an all-inclusive list.
 

smartHOME marketplace contains profiles of new products for the digital home. Check out all the products from audio-video receivers and digital locks, to the latest in remote controls.

The smartHOME news represents what is happening in the industry. Headlines include: Rebranding of APX Aims to Make Automation Mainstream; Glued to TV; HAI Devices Part of Home Energy Management Projects; Scholarship to Honor CEDIS's Vaughn; etc.

Avatar is so yesterday. After a push for home 3D-enabled televisions, spurred by the popularity of the movie, those 3D televisions are still a glimmer in the eyes of manufacturers as well as a dusty product on big box store shelves. Still, in the world of high definition, some TV makers, thanks to a Consumer Electronics Association-sponsored study, have recently shifted their programming to emphasize...

The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association EXPO, Indianapolis, was honored by Trade Show Executive magazine as one of 100 shows that set the gold standard for the exposition industry. CEDIA EXPO was recently recognized as one of the largest shows of 2009 at Trade Show Executive’s Gold 100 Awards Gala & Summit. Where did it rank?

Control4, a provider of affordable IP-based home control systems, announced that it signed a strategic agreement with Cisco. Cisco is leading an investment in Control4 (with other unannounced investors). What will the collaboration between the two companies include?

The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), the organization supporting home and building automation, is partnering with others and bringing in new leadership.

Through its Intelligent and Integrated Building Council and new research program, the organization late last year completed its 2011 North American intelligent building roadmap. The roadmap investigated a number of things.

Pandora Media Inc. filed an S-1 form with the SEC to raise $100 million in an initial public offering.

The reasoning for the $100 million IPO? 

Take a peak inside CEDIA’ residential training courses for FREE. Security, SDM and smartHOME magazines are once again bringing you iSecurity, the virtual event for the security industry on March 2, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST, and this year’s smartHOME webinar, Emerging Trends in Residential Technology, features Steve Rissi, technical training manager of Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA).