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According to Parks Associates, the total digital home health market in the US will grow at an average annual rate of 36% and turn into a $2.1 bln industry in 2010. The rapid expansion of wellness monitoring programs and online patient-physician messaging services will partly drive this growth. Where you at ?

Steve Jobs and his iPhone successfully stole the limelight from the Consumer Electronics Show this week, which meant the attendance of a former Apple chief in Las Vegas went almost unnoticed. John Sculley , whose ten-year reign at Apple began when Steve Jobs, then chairman, recruited him in 1983, took part in a debate with Bob Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet , on the future of home automation – and whether Apple would enter this market. Mr Metcalfe is now chairman of Ember, a home automation player which sponsored the debate along with one of its customers Control4. He spoke of a quintuple play in the home – the triple play that has been coined for service operators offering TV, telephone and internet service, and then mobility services and home automation being added to the mix. The killer application that could kick-start home automation would be energy management, he predicted, with new-home builders the most likely to propagate this. Mr Sculley, who is currently chairm...

From TWICE newsletter. At least three more companies here launched their first home automation products incorporating the no-new-wires Insteon technology developed by SmartLabs. The introductions by D-Link, Carrier, and Weiland Sliding Doors will bring the number of companies announcing Insteon-enabled products to about 15, said SmartLabs business development VP Ken Fairbanks. About 50 Insteon products will be available in the first half, he said. D-Link will show an Insteon-enabled router that will enable consumers to access their Insteon home-control system over the Internet from a remote PC. Carrier will show thermostats, and Weiland Doors will show high-end doors that slide into exterior walls. The applications are on display at the SmartLabs booth. Also here at the show, Best Buy is announcing plans to offer Insteon-equipped home-automation/control system installed by the Geek Squad. Although the products will be available in stores, Best Buy is mainly targeting build...

For years we’ve been lulled to sleep with dreams of “Ultra” technology like the Concept Refrigerator than is so smart it tells you when your running low on Milk or Cheese, not only that, but also it could actually order the products for you. Finally, Robust and sexy technology that makes Tomorrowland look like a hallucination of some weird fascist cartoonist who shall remain nameless. Alas, the closest anyone has actually gotten to this is, the one or two fridges with built in TV’s (not sure about you, but in my opinion that is a long way away from my Safeway.com fridge). The promises of this awe-inspiring tech have been just that, promises. Thinly veiled pornography for the inner geek, en masse. For over a decade now Microsoft and selected partners have been trying to make these concepts and dreams come true. The majority of earlier results have had relatively poor outcomes. Heck, I even own a computer named a “Digital Living System,” which does nothing in the way to digitize any ...

"By 2010, 20 homes networked together in a neighborhood will have more load across their network than the entire Internet did in 1995, "This is what gets a networking person excited."