4Home logs $525K for central home electronics control
4Home, maker of software dashboards capable of remotely controlling all of the electronics and appliances in your home, has raised $525,000 in convertible promissory notes, according to a filing with the SEC. The company recently brought in another $770,000 in notes.
Indirectly related to the Smart Grid, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company makes technology that allows users to control some of their appliances remotely — particularly their thermostats. The system also serves as a hub for home… Continue Reading
4HomeMedia, a software platform for your home’s gadgets and applications
4HomeMedia, like many companies past and present, dreams of becoming a software-based command center for all the gadgets and applications in your home, including for your television, phone and PC.
Its vision is to present homeowners with a unified interface for managing anything from using your cell phone to turn on your porch light while you’re at work, to watching YouTube videos on your TV.
Today, it is introducing a way to manage all of your digital… Continue Reading
4HomeMedia, latest company to want to control your home
4HomeMedia, a Sunnyvale start-up, is the latest company wanting to let people control every electronic gadget and system in their home remotely.
It is an elusive business, because some companies have tried it, and most have failed.
4HomeMedia apparently thinks it has better chances. It will demonstrate its home-controlling technology at the CES conference next week. It said its product, the ControlPoint, has won the “Best of Innovations” award in the Integrated Home Systems category for this… Continue Reading