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05/01/2026

Apple’s New Smart Watch Focuses On Health To Drive Growth

Apple kicked off the company’s Apple Event day with the introduction of the new Series 4 Apple Watch. As anticipated from leaked photos, the new version maintains the same exterior dimensions as the S...

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privacy

Broadband and Mobility

05/01/2026

Apple’s Push to Combat Child Pornography Raises Serious Privacy Considerations

Apple has long carried itself as a staunch defender of user privacy. CEO Tim Cook has even asserted privacy is a “fundamental human right,” and Apple’s track record has supported this notion. For exam...

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Smart Home

05/01/2026

Apple Leans into the Smart Home with WWDC Announcements

Apple announced several new additions to its smart home platform at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week. In addition to product updates to the Apple Watch and HomeKit, Apple also unve...

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05/01/2026

Top 5 Things from CES – 2019 Edition

Any time you ask someone about the great things they saw at CES, you need to take their response with a grain (or heaping tablespoon) of salt. The issue is scope. The Consumer Electronics Show is far...

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05/01/2026

Three Thoughts on Day Two at CES 2018

Another day of meetings and discovery at CES 2018. Here are a few additional thoughts on what I have seen at the show on day two. 8K is moving closer to reality. Yes. I understand. 4K is just gaini...

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Smart Home

05/01/2026

Difficulty Setting Up Smart Home Devices is a Significant Driver of Product Returns

Among self-help support options, consumers are slightly less likely to use self-help applications on their devices than other support resources. This is likely driven by lower availability of the self...

CONNECTIONS

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Smart Home

05/01/2026

Artificial Intelligence and The Future of the Smart Home

Amidst this disruptive year, the smart home market continued its steady growth, with 34% of consumers owning a core smart home device and 41% owning a remotely monitored connected home device. Not onl...

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Smart Home

05/01/2026

Tech Giants and Zigbee Alliance to Develop New Smart Home Standard

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Zigbee Alliance have announced plans to develop and promote a new open-source connectivity standard for smart home devices called Project Connected Home over IP. The standar...

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Walmart

Smart Home

05/01/2026

Amazon Key Service Likely to Find Segments Ready for In-Home Delivery

Amazon's announcement of a new Amazon Key in-home delivery service caused some media buzz this week, following on the heels of a similar announcement of an in-home delivery partnership between Walmart...

Amazon

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Amazon Prime

Smart Home

05/01/2026

Amazon Discontinues the Dash Button

Amazon recently announced plans to disconnect Dash buttons from the internet. Initially launched in 2015, Dash buttons are small buttons associated with specific products. They allow Amazon Prime memb...

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05/01/2026

Amazon Touts JustWatch Report Saying It Beat Netflix in Q2 Engagement ... 'Take Our Market Share Data With a Grain of Salt,' Responds JustWatch's Founder

Amazon doesn't publicly disclose how many Amazon Prime members it is the U.S., or globally for that matter. But late last year, research company Parks Associates published data suggesting that Prime V...

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OTT

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Entertainment

05/01/2026

Convergent Billing Moves OTT Closer to Disrupted Cable TV Business Model

Amazon created the new template for services seeking to create a one-stop shop for streaming media content with their Amazon Channels offering in late 2015. What started with a simple platform for con...

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05/01/2026

Amazon & Netflix Go Head-to-Head at 2017 Golden Globes

Amazon and Netflix went head-to-head at the 2017 Golden Globes Sunday night, as the OTT video services’ original content was up for several awards. Original content has become an increased focus fo...

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Alexa+

Smart Home

05/01/2026

Alexa+ Spotlights Focus on Home Services and Connection to Commerce

Amazon Alexas+ Prime announcement emphasizes the new role of services in the home, as well as the value and convenience because devices can be interconnected in the home.  At the same time, folding th...

CONNECTIONS

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Internet of Things

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Smart Home

05/01/2026

Technology, Innovation, and Security Insights with TruSource Labs

Alton Martin, Co-Founder, Co-CEO, Trusource Labs sat down with the Parks Associates’ analyst team prior to the 22nd-annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference to discuss how companies c...

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