Smart Home

Voice Activated: Do You Talk to Your Tech?

May 15th, 2018
How many of us are talking to our tech on a regular basis? Ken Olmstead at the Pew Research Center recently highlighted the fact that nearly half of U.S. adults (46 percent) say they use voice-controlled assistants and applications to...

Amazon Experience Centers Look to Transform Smart-Home Shopping

May 19th, 2018
Amazon is making moves yet again. As a way to market its smart-home business segment without having to invest in conventional store locations, the online marketplace giant has partnered with Lennar Corporation to provide connectivity demos of Alexa-enabled products—everything from video...

Is Amazon Embarking on Home Insurance?

July 12th, 2018
July 16 is Prime Day, and this year’s deals feature double discounts on Alexa-enabled smart home devices, including Echo, Fire TV and Fire tablets, Amazon reports. As the marketplace giant gets more and more involved in the lives of homeowners,...

Cover Story: How Big Data and Passion Became a Game Changer

March 5th, 2017
The original real estate disruptor, Coldwell Banker entered the market with an innovation that fundamentally changed the industry and has been leading the charge ever since. “The brand itself has a 110-year heritage of innovation, which has demonstrated various meanings...

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