Month: March 2016

NEW YORK, April 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Transbeam, Inc., a managed service provider of carrier-grade Data, Voice, Events Connectivity and Professional IT Services, announced today they have won the 2016 Visionary Spotlight Awards in two categories: Best Video Communications for their Intelligent Network Monitoring Video and Best Channel Deployment of Data, Ethernet and Converged Infrastructure which involved their channel partner, Velstar International, a reputable Transbeam agent and technology facilitator.

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The cloud-connected, voice-activated Amazon Echo smart speaker was a bona fide sleeper hit last year, and Alexa, the virtual assistant housed within, is starting to give Siri a good run for her money. Now, in an effort to strike while the iron is still hot, the online mega-retailer is adding not one, but two Echo follow-ups to Alexa’s family: the battery-powered Amazon Tap, and the puck-shaped Amazon Echo Dot.

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We’ve already outfitted the CNET Smart Home with an Amazon-Echo-friendly security system called Scout. This straightforward kit shines in its simplicity, offering an assortment of sensors that you can install around your house to track doors opening and closing, as well as motion (you do have to pay $10 per month for most of its features, though, unless you were grandfathered in as an early adopter). But Scout doesn’t currently come with security cameras — or even offer them as optional add-ons (disappointingly, Scout-brand cameras have been “in the works” for a while now without any discernible progress).

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Like the wired Amazon Echo smart speaker before it, the battery-powered, $130 Amazon Tap speaker is a multi-talented device. Via Bluetooth, you can stream audio to the Tap from a smart phone. Connect the Tap to Wi-Fi and it can also play music directly from Amazon Prime Music or other popular streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora.

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The new H2O Wi-Fi Router can provide users with combined speeds up to 2.53 Gbps* and under water range up to 10,000 feet. Also included is Smart Wi-Fi technology which makes it easy to set up and control your H2O Wi-Fi from anywhere using the Smart Wi-Fi app on your mobile device.

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Parrot successfully introduced this new type of drone in 2014, since then it has been a commercial hit. The Bebop drone is a small quadcopter, measuring 33x38x3.6cm and weighting just 420g. It records stable 1080p video in a 180° filed thanks to a 14 megapixel fisheye camera. The drone is safe to fly indoors and is capable of performing aerial rolls and flips.

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