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Using Apple’s HomePod in Canada

Americans have been able to get their hands on Apple's smart speaker, the HomePod, for a few months now. But with no Canadian release...

All Hands on Tech – Canada’s first smart condo community

We tour Tridel's new Ten York condo tower development in downtown Toronto with Smart One Solutions, the firm that's deployed smart community technology that...

How SmartOne Solutions is adapting South Korean smart home tech for Canada

We have bad news for you Canada, South Korea is much more advanced than we are in the smart home space. But don't fret!...

Guide to complete mastery of your new Google Home unit

Google Home goes on sale in retail locations across Canada today, so let's talk about everything you'll want to do after unboxing your new...

Logitech simplifies smart home control

Logitech is expanding its smart home product portfolio with the introduction of the Logitech Pop Home Switch Starter Pack and Pop Add-On Home Switch. The new...

IoT security needs to be tougher

Every vendor’s got a piece of the Internet of Things, including Wilson Sporting Goods, which on Monday revealed a Bluetooth-enabled football that captures data...

Smart home device adoption to grow in quadruple digits within five years

Smarthome devices are still an emerging market, but this may change very soon. New data from Juniper Research suggests that sales of standalone home automation hardware will...

7 ways smartphones need to be different in 2016

2015 was a good year for smartphone fans. We saw a number of innovations take hold on the platform. These included phablet-sized devices, curved...

Why you should be worried about IoT security even if you won’t buy into it

Security, in some form or another, is typically found in every type of internet-enabled device, from data centres to servers, to desktops and laptops,...

Cost and awareness major obstacles to smart home technology adoption: Study

Homes are smarter than you think - at least in the U.S. A new study by the market research firm the Harris Poll found that...

Smart home device vendors know their products are not secure: Symantec

Not only are smart home devices not secure, but device manufacturers are not doing anything about it, according to Symantec. In a recent white paper...

HP’s IoT platform aims to enable smart cities

HP has announced an Internet of Things platform and will be initially targeting mobile network operators and the energy sector. While the company was not...

CES 2015: Early product announcements from HP, Lenovo, LG and more

With CES 2015 in full swing this week, here’s CDN’s pick of some of the most intriguing gadgets announced so far.   PCs While some would argue...

Window between tech showing and shipping shrinking: Future Shop

Vendors at CES 2015 better be ready to deliver. According to Future Shop, with customers having increasingly enhanced, live access to the latest announcements and...

The smart home makes a comeback at CES

Futurists and technology vendors have long promoted the vision of the connected smart home but, as of yet, our fridge can’t re-order milk by...

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