Konka Unveils 2021 TVs With WebOS, Smart Home Devices
In advance of next week’s virtual CES 2021, China-based TV brand Konka, which made its North American debut last fall, announced a range of products for 2021 including an assortment of smart TVs based on a choice of Andriod TV or LG’s popular webOS smart…
Juniper: 13.4B Smart Home Devices To Be In Active Use In 5 Years
In line with recent reports of surging growth of integrated Smart TVs around the world, nearly 13.5 billion smart home devices are forecast to be in active use by 2025, up from an estimated 7.4 billion at the end of 2020, according to new data…
Skyworth Kicks Off Global Brand Expansion At CES
China-based TV manufacturer Skyworth TV used a CES 2020 press conference Sunday night to usher in the global market expansion of its brand and products into North America and other regions, behind a set of premium TV series including “wallpaper-thin” 4K OLED TVs and a…
Skyworth To Kickoff Global Expansion At CES 2020
China-based TV manufacturer and marketer Skyworth will be staging a pre-CES press conference to announce the global expansion launch of the Skyworth TV and appliance brand. The company said it has made a significant investment aimed at expanding its TV business by formally entering the…
Major New Smart Home Platform Standard Planned
Anyone interested in purchasing a new TV in part to use as a smart home hub might be interested to learn that Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance are teaming up in a historically unlikely way to develop a new open standard assuring interoperability…
CBSN Added To Samsung TV Plus Free Channel Library
In a bid to make its Tizen-based televisions further appeal to the rapidly growing cord-cutting community, Samsung announced Thursday that it has added CBSN – CBS News’ free 24/7 streaming news service – to its Samsung TV Plus app service. Samsung TV Plus is an…
Samsung Offers Tizen OS To 3rd Party TV Makers
Samsung Electronics said it is making its Tizen OS, which it uses for its TVs, smart home appliances and mobile devices, available to other third-party TV makers. The announcement, which was posted on the corporate web site Tuesday, comes out of the Samsung Developers Conference…
Alexa Will Now Let Users Delete Recorded Commands
Amazon announced at its devices event Wednesday that it has added a new feature to its Alexa cloud-based AI voice control platform enabling users to auto-delete their spoken commands from the system database, as a gesture to assuage the fears of those concerned with their…
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