Smart Home
![Amazon acquires Roomba maker for $1.7 billion, gets your home layout? Amazon acquires Roomba maker for $1.7 billion, gets your home layout?](https://cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/roomba-j7-plus-arvostelu.png)
Shopping giant Amazon has somewhat unexpectedly moved in to acquire leading robot vacuum manufacturer iRobot. The acquisition cost is $1.7 billion, ......
![A new go at HomePod: Apple investing more in smart home A new go at HomePod: Apple investing more in smart home](https://cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/Apple-HomePod.png)
Apple announced their smart speaker at the WWDC in 2017 in the boom created by Amazon and later Google. However, Apple's first smart home device ......
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Smartphones are still perhaps the number one technology people focus on but it seems pretty clear that it might not be as exciting as it once ......
![Bluetooth upgrade is going to improve smart home devices Bluetooth upgrade is going to improve smart home devices](https://cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/Bluetooth-mesh.png)
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), a consortium developing the wireless data transfer standard Bluetooth, has released the final specifications ......
![Report: Apple working on 'mainstream' Smart Home hardware Report: Apple working on 'mainstream' Smart Home hardware](https://cdn.afterdawn.fi/v3/news/small/homekit-wwdc-03.png)
According to new reports, Apple is working on new mainstream Smart Home hardware, looking to connect the home with your iOS devices.