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The Science Behind ‘Active’ HDMI Cables: Part 1

HDMI 2.0 has forced many to look at new and current active cable devices, not only for bandwidth,...

NewsFebruary 6, 2014

Top 5 Home Tech Trends and Opportunities for 2014

How will these soaring categories affect your business in 2014? We take a closer look at high-resolution audio,...

NewsJanuary 1, 2014

Nortek to Acquire 2Gig for $135M, Fold into Linear Security

Five months after 2Gig and Vivint were acquired for $2B, Nortek Inc. acquires leading home automation and home...

NewsFebruary 13, 2013

Top 5 Home Tech Trends and Opportunities for 2013

Our annual prediction of five technologies for integrators to watch (and make money from).

NewsJanuary 1, 2013

Notable Mergers and Acquisitions in Custom Electronics, 2012

HAI, LiteTouch, Thiel, 2Gig, Vivint, Jeff Zemanek and Utz Baldwin were some of the companies and names in...

NewsDecember 25, 2012

Top 5 Home Technology Opportunities for 2012

Self-contained security/home automation, LED lighting, computer audio, alternative controls and the cloud provide key opportunities for home systems...

NewsJanuary 1, 2012
How to Earn $85K Per Month Monitoring House Arrest Bracelets

How to Earn $85K Per Month Monitoring House Arrest Bracelets

Thank you, Lindsay Lohan, and others who make alcohol monitoring and ankle bracelet monitoring profitable.

NewsJune 6, 2011

AMX Caves to DVD CCA, Drops MAX Server

AMX denies that its MAX media server violates a CSS license agreement with the DVD CCA, but drops...

NewsJuly 10, 2010

Planar Reaffirms Satisfaction With Runco Acquisition

Planar has no regrets about last year's acquisition of Runco International for $37 million, says Scott Hix, VP...

NewsApril 28, 2008

Planar’s Acquisition of Runco: No End to the Party

Runco is known as much for creating “the world’s finest home theater products” as throwing the world’s greatest...

NewsMay 24, 2007

Planar Acquires Runco International

Acquisition advances Planar into a leading position in the high-end, custom home theater display marketplace.

NewsMay 23, 2007

Lennar Embraces Best Buy, Exceptional Innovation, ConnectedLife.Home

Best Buy is going to sell a packaged solution of Media Center plus home automation by Lifeware. Literally,...

NewsDecember 25, 2006

Guest Editorial: Are Consultants the Black Sheep of Custom World?

Consulting and design services aren’t completely appreciated or understood the the custom home-technology sector, according to guest editor...

SponsoredSeptember 1, 2006

Saavihome, Theater Xtreme Launch Home Technology Franchise Companies

Two new franchise companies think they can do for custom home technology what Performahome, Smart House and so...

NewsSeptember 1, 2005

Why Home Director Failed

Home Director, one of the most icononic figures in structured wiring--indeed the home systems industry--has gone belly up....

NewsApril 6, 2005

Copy Protection Group Sues Kaleidescape

The legal action being taken by the DVD Copy Control Association against video server manufacturer Kaleidescape raises many...

NewsJanuary 1, 2005

New ‘Simple Control Protocol’ is Link between Internet and the Light Switch

Microsoft teams with GE and CEBus-oriented technology firms to produce definitive home-control protocol.

NewsJune 1, 2000
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