Phone company Verizon quietly launched its smart home products nationwide about three months ago, which enable customers to lock and unlock doors and windows, watch home video cameras remotely, and manage thermostats and lighting.…
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Nest’s log jam is opening up for its smart thermostat
The Nest thermostat has been sold out for months, but it looks like that backlog is starting to clear. While the thermostat still isn't available on it website, the company is offering some potential customers on its email list a chance to buy the device.…
Read MoreUnboxing Nest’s learning thermostat
The hottest item that you probably couldn't get for Christmas this year was the Nest thermostat, which is sold out until 2012. But I bought one a couple months ago for a Christmas present and the device showed up a couple days before the big day.…
Read MoreGigaOM’s top 10 green stories of 2011
Which stories dominated the green GigaOM clicks in 2011? This year was filled with smart thermostats, a dream of Apple getting into solar, the bankruptcy of Solyndra, the efficiency of cloud computing, Google's green data centers and Tesla's Model S.…
Read MoreInside Nest’s learning thermostat
I got my Nest learning thermostat in the mail on Wednesday (a couple of weeks early), but thankfully, when I woke up on Thursday morning, the folks at SparkFun did a complete tear-down of the Nest, so I don't have to break mine up. Yay.…
Read MoreAfter Chinese hacks, how do we secure the Internet of Things?
Reading about hackers hitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, I was struck by the hackers accessing a thermostat, and the tone of resignation around preventing such attacks. So how will we secure the Internet of things, and do we give up on perimeter-based security?…
Read MoreGigaOM RoadMap Rewind: A conversation with Nest’s Tony Fadell
The world's first learning, connected thermostat from startup Nest, was sold out of 4 months of production in the first 72 hours, said Nest founder Tony Fadell in an interview at GigaOM's RoadMap event last week. Check out the entire video Q&A.…
Read MoreNest and the Apple-ification of the thermostat
The Nest burst onto the scene recently, making waves unlike any seen for a product you'd never guess anyone would care about: the home thermostat. Fadell talked about how his team is rethinking a 50-year-old industry with lessons from his days at Apple.…
Read MoreFAIL: Energy Savings Foiled by Dastardly Thermostats
Turns out programmable thermostats in our homes are almost as much of a nightmare to figure out as confounding DVRs. According to a recently-published study from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, a significant portion of users of programmable thermostats are incorrectly using them.…
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