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Monday, September 08, 2008 10:34 AM

cyberManor Named 2008 Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest Winner

With a stunning implementation of Windows Media Center technologies in an eco-friendly Northern California home, cyberManor captures this year’s title. DENVER — Sept. 8, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. announced the winner of the 2008 Windows...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:58 PM

Embedded Automation Announces Commercial Release of mPanel

Newest Product in the mHome Family Integrates Digital Media and Digital Home Control Surrey, BC – September 2, 2008 Today, Embedded Automation announced commercial availability of mPanel, the newest member of the mHome Product Family. mPanel will...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:51 PM

VidaBox's vAutomation Platform Tightly Integrates Media Center & Automation Technologies

VidaBox Partners with Charmed Quark Systems to create vAutomation™: Complete Media Management & Automation Solutions for the Mid-to-High-End AV Market Westbury, NY - September 2nd - VidaBox LLC proudly presents its new line of automation and...
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Monday, September 01, 2008 9:32 PM

Short Bits: Life|ware & Niveus at CEDIA

This edition ripped straight from CE Pro …It seems Niveus Media is done with pushing their recently developed Niveus EDGE Extender. The might have been Xbox 360-based Extender (sans gaming) is out and the HP MediaSmart Connect is in . Interesting...
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Friday, August 22, 2008 9:36 AM

First Look at QWebL’s Home Automation System

It looks like QWebL has decided hold off until after CEDIA to launch the full details of their upcoming home automation system, but they have put up an overview of what the solution attempts to offer as well as choosing the winners of their video contest...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:22 AM

Embedded Automation Announces mHome Power Management Module

New Module Makes Power Monitoring and Control Within Reach of all Homeowners Surrey, BC – August 20, 2008 Today, Embedded Automation announced its mHome Power Management Module. The mHome Power Management Module, which provides real-time energy...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:22 AM

Last Chance to Enter QWebL’s $1,000 Video Contest

New home automation company QWebL has been holding a contest on YouTube for video entries on your frustrations with remote controls and/or your dream feature in a home automation system. The videos can be funny, serious or anything in-between and while...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:31 PM

Short Bits: Fiji, Media Center Show, Olympics

Mary Jo Foley covers the mess that has been Fiji . I’ll have more soon, but Fiji will go down in history as one of the worst coordinated projects to come out of Microsoft in a long time. On this week’s Media Center Show Ian Dixon has Automated...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:30 AM

mControl Adds Text to Speech Driver

Adding to the long list of mControl add-ins, drivers, and plug-ins is their text to speech beta driver that allows the Microsoft Speech API to make your Vista machine speak text as part of a macro. The speech commands are specific to Windows Vista, so...
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Friday, July 25, 2008 1:05 PM

QWebL Home Automation Software Integrates with Media Center

Recently QWebL announced their intentions to bring their home automation software to Media Center and other platforms including touchpanels, phones, and more. A week or so ago they also announced a contest in which they are giving away two $1,000 American...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:11 PM

Short Bits: Batch DVD Rip, mControl ISY

So you have a Sony DVD Changer that doesn’t include the ability to stream to Extenders. What do you do? Forget keeping the discs in the changer and just batch rip them using Casey Chesnut newest project /dvdMassRip . Embedded Automation has just...
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Monday, July 21, 2008 7:40 PM

Short Bits: Media Center U, Media Center Show, SideShow, More

I’ve been extra busy the past week and have kind of skipped covering everything that I wanted too, but now I’m back! Check out part 4 and part 4 of the Media Center University sessions at EHX. In these two sessions Todd Rutherford from Microsoft...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 7:28 PM

VidaBox Releases the vController - Hardware Solution Integratable with Software Automation

VidaBox Releases the vController - a Solid, Feature-Rich Hardware Solution Integratable with Software-Based Automation packages ‏ Westbury, NY – July 17th – VidaBox is excited to offer the vController, a powerful rack-mountable automation...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:22 PM

Internet Video Contest Asks What You'd Automate in Your Home

QWebL Contest Winners Receive $1,000 Grand Prize Houston, TX - Have you ever wished your home was automated or that your remote controls were a little easier to use? Ever wish you had home automation controls available on your Microsoft Media Center PC...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:01 PM

mControl Gets UPB Driver; mPanel Beta Units Out

Last month mControl gained support for CentraLite JetStream , and this month UPB has been added to the growing list of supported lighting and home control systems in Embedded Automations mControl . The beta driver, developed by mControl user Tom Boyce...
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Monday, July 07, 2008 9:20 PM

Short Bits: DVD Steaming, Media Center U, CEDIA

Charlie Owen wants to know why you think that Microsoft hasn’t hit on DVD streaming yet . My reasoning? Because Microsoft has no idea what market to develop for. Are they focused on their average consumer market? Because they don’t use Media...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:46 PM

Microsoft Starts Media Center SideShow Gadget Beta

Microsoft has finally unwrapped a beta of the long rumored Vista Media Center SideShow control gadget. First spotted by Stuart , you can apply for the beta on Microsoft Connect and get started starting, but so far it looks pretty much like basic in terms...
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Friday, June 27, 2008 8:49 AM

mControl 2.1 Goes Final

Embedded Automation has released the final build of mControl 2.1 for download. The build is actually the same as the previous RCGOLD2 release, and as there were no significant issues reported Embedded Automation has now shifted their focus to the next...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:51 AM

mControl Adds Support for CentraLite JetStream

Embedded Automation has just added CentraLite JetStream to their growing list of supported home control systems. CentraLite JetStream is a new standard for home control based on Zigbee, and as you will learn in the embedded video it was actually the first...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 7:27 AM

Short Bits: Extenders, Dream Home

The Windows Experience Blog took a look at the HP MediaSmart Connect . At some point I’ll also have a review of the unit and compare it directly to the Linksys Extenders (and D-Link which is pretty much the same). Speaking of Extenders, Ben at Engadget...
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