In a survey of smart home use cases, the Parks Associates (www.parksassociates.com) research group found that over 40% of U.S. broadband households are interested in the ability to receive medical alerts via a smartphone or other connected platform. And about 10% have some type of smart home product, service, or both.
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Smile has released PDFpen 7.2, an update to its all-purpose PDF editing tool for Mac OS X. This update includes a new Cloud annotation tool as well as an option for case-sensitive searches.
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Verto Studio (http://www.vertostudio.com/) has launched its 3D cloud service for free to all users of desktop and mobile Verto Studio 3D.
Now, all Verto Studio scenes can be published to the web, viewable by anyone else in the world within a web browser. Additionally, a shape editor has also been added to Verto Studio which supports the importing and 3D extrusion of SVG files.
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NewerTech has introduced the US$24 Kitchen Kit (http://tinyurl.com/o8lohq9) iPad stand and stylus bundle that lets you safely use your Apple tablet in the kitchen for viewing recipes, videos, web browsing, listening to music, IM’ing and Skype video casts — all while cooking.
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Apple continues to add new channels to the Apple TV set-top box. The latest is Showtime’s streaming service.
The Showtime streaming channel costs US$10.99 per month, although there’s a 30-day, free trial period. The channel offers full access to Showtime’s catalog of TV shows, movies, documentaries, specials, and sports programming. It also includes access to Showtime’s live TV feed on either the east coast or the west coast.
The new Showtime streaming channel is available automatically on all second- and third-generation Apple TV units.
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