Google teased its smart home initiatives Weave and Brillo earlier this year at I/O, and now the tech giant's Nest division is pushing its own smart home standard out into the real world. Nest Weave, announced Thursday, is a protocol for Internet of Things gadgets that lets them communicate with Nest...
Yesterday we reported on the official news that Amazon Echo was now compatible with SmartThings. Amazon Echo is an Internet-connected speaker that responds to commands and questions that you ask it. As long as you start your sentences with “Alexa,” you can play music, hear the news, get the...
What Nest announced at its press event in San Francisco Wednesday may not be nearly as important as what it didn’t announce—how its flagship smart thermostat, just-updated smoke alarm and rebooted Dropcam security camera will fit into its parent company’s ambitions to fill our homes with intelligent, connected devices.See also:...
The mystery of Nest’s June 17 event might have been solved, thanks to a just-discovered filing at the Federal Communications Commission. The Google-owned smart home company, which bought Dropcam last year, entered paperwork with the FCC for a new "wireless camera" of some sort. See also: Google's Offering Smarter Tools For...
Guest author Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.The ideal manager is someone who solves problems before they reach the CEO. Sometimes, though, communicating honestly about business problems is important, especially if a lower manager isn't sure how to handle a specific situation.If you're a leaders who...
Today, you can’t just look at a Nest smart thermostat, nod and watch as the gizmo warms up the room. But perhaps someday you will, now that Google has put ex-Apple exec and Nest co-founder Tony Fadell in charge of Google Glass.The controversial digital face-gear, now out of the purview...
Nest, the Google-owned smart home device, is poised to show off its capabilities as more than just a thermostat at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. See also: Nest Makes Its Move In The Smart HomeIn June last year, Nest unveiled its public API that would allow independent programmers to...
Now if you’re chilly, you can tell your Nest thermostat to warm up your home by simply saying, “OK Google, change the temperature to 75 degrees.” Monday, the Google-owned Nest smart home device integrated with the company's Google Now voice service, giving users speech features using their mobile devices. Once verbalized,...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.According to the experts, we may all be living in a smart home before long. Google wants it to be theirs. Forget the fact that it doesn’t actually have a cohesive smart home system yet—it’s working on that, and quickly...
This week, Nest and six other companies announced their master plan to make smart homes better. The secret, they say, lies in mesh networking, which lets gadgets talk to each other directly—no centralized hub necessary. To help the cause, the group even introduced its own brand-new mesh wireless protocol called...
The smart home, an Internet of Things movement to connect your household appliances, has an ironic problem: communication. Numerous approaches, platforms and standards have sprung up to thoroughly confuse consumers, making it difficult to know which devices can actually talk to each other. Google-owned smart thermostat company Nest and its band...
Developers, you have a new smart-home platform to play with. Google's Nest unit has formally unveiled an API (see our API explainer) that will let independent programmers create new applications for the company's smart thermostats and smoke alarms. Nest's press release is embedded below.See also: How A Little Competition Made Thermostats...
Google’s Nest subsidiary has acquired Dropcam, a maker of connected home cameras, for $555 million, Recode reports.The deal helps Nest expand beyond its first two products, a thermostat and a smoke alarm, both distinguished by their wireless capabilities and their friendlier interfaces.See also: Smart Home Shocker: My Cats Are Out...
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Wednesday that Nest Labs has recalled as many as 440,000 Nest Protect Smoke + CO alarms.Last month, the smart appliance maker alerted users to a bug in the device’s “wave to dismiss” feature and, for safety reasons, advised them to update the product’s...
Practically everything is a billboard to Google, but there’s one thing that shouldn't be: Your Nest.See also: Google Has New Targeted Ads That Encourage You To Dive Into AppsA December letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, released today, fueled fears that Google might be soon be serving you ads...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.Nothing influences people’s comfort or mood like a warm, toasty environment or a cool, invigorating climate. And yet, of all the technologies in the home, the lowly thermostat gets the least respect— even though nobody likes costly energy bills each...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.Nest Labs’ sudden decision Thursday to halt sales of its smart smoke and carbon monoxide detectors surprised users and drew mixed reactions. But what looks at first glance like a black eye was also the sharpest thing the company...
For the last three years, I have gotten most of my news from one primary source: Zite on the iPad. I knew there were other capable and quality newsreaders out there, but Zite always delivered the breadth and serendipity of news that I craved to get a whole perspective on...
Guest author Alex Salkever is the global product manager of cloud computing/IaaS at Telefónica.Google surprised the tech world Monday with its $3.2 billion acquisition of smart-thermostat maker Nest. Given that Nest was founded by former Apple executive Tony Fadell, who designed the iPod, lots of people had assumed the company...
Within minutes of Google announcing plans to buy Nest—the connected home products company known for its smart (and attractive) thermostats and smoke alarms—people immediately started wondering if the tech giant is developing its own smart home. Makes sense. Judging by the Consumer Electronics Show, connected home technologies are the new black for...
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