Clippings | 2007
Life|ware 2.0.3 Released
12.21.07
The latest release of this industry-leading digital entertainment and automation software is highlighted by increased functionality, more connected partners and quicker dealer installations. Attendees can see the 2008 CES Innovations Award Honoree live at the groundbreaking Next Gen Home Experience.
Read all about it at Yahoo! News
ADT Teams with Life|ware
11.19.07
Life|ware and ADT security systems have teamed up to integrate ADT into Life|ware's home control. Customers will be able to access Life|ware's complete home control and entertainment, and ADT's security services through Life|ware's simple, elegant interface. When they're away from home, they can control all the systems through a secure Web connection.
ADT teams with Life|ware
Life|media and Life|ware Partner News Roundup
11.16.07
More Life|media buzz, and new connected offerings from Life|ware partners.
Sound and Video Contractor: Exceptional Innovation and Others Advance Media Center Platform at CEDIA
CEPro: Inside the Life|media Media Center PC from Exceptional Innovation
Engadget: Life|ware's quad-CableCARD™ Life|media systems get (more) official
CEPro: Media Center to Support 4 CableCARD™s
TWICE Magazine: EI Expands Hardware, Partner Selection
TWICE Magazine: Russound Bows Smart Media Console Server
TWICE Magazine: Niles Bows Expanded ZR Series Receiver Line
TWICE Magazine: EI Expands Hardware, Partner Selection
Technomenities
09.11.07
Dealerscope identifies a trend at CEDIA they call "Technomenities"—home automation that links users to community-based services like dry cleaning, pet sitting, grocery delivery and more. Life|amenities is one of these exciting new solutions. "Technomenities": The Pleasure-Tronics Trend at CEDIA '07.
MORE CEDIA Buzz for Life|media
09.11.07
In their CEDIA coverage of Life|media, Gizmodo enthuses it's hardly working, using just 57% of its processing power while feeding and recording all that video. Life|ware Shows Quad-Recording Media Center with Four CableCARDs™.
Exceptional Innovation Set to Ship Life|media Media Center PCs. The first 50 CableCard-ready LifeMedia Media Center PCs from Exceptional Innovation are set to ship. Built on Intel's Viiv platform, the units promise unparalleled media control, automation integration.
Engadget enjoys a Hands-on with EI's Four-CableCARD™ 754 LifeMedia Server.
Dealerscope proclaims Life|ware Unveils New Media Center Servers, Microsoft Shows UP. Exceptional Innovation, the developer of the Life|ware home control and automation platform, has moved more into the hardware side and has formed closer relationships with Microsoft and other manufacturers.
CEDIA Buzz for Life|ware
09.06.07
In Exceptional Innovation Delivers Turnkey System for Wired and Wireless Homes, CEPro suggests that Exceptional Innovation has discovered the home automation industry's "Holy Grail—reliable home control that's sophisticated enough to execute a variety of commands and manageable enough for installers to implement consistently at a scalable series of price points."
See a review and slide show of Life|amenities, coming soon to a hotel near you. Schedule spa treatments, buy tickets for shows, or order room service and a movie from your hotel TV. Exceptional Innovation Launches LifeAmenities for Hotels.
Check out our Life|media servers—among the first Media Centers to offer Quad Tuners—reviews and slide show from CEPro.
Audio Video Interiors Tours a Life|ware Home
June 2007
The Theater Inspirations column takes a tour of Woodland Hall, EI founder Seale Moorer's Life|ware connected house, and declares I Want That!
Digital Online Home on Smart Appliances
05.01.2007
Smart Homes, Smart Appliances provides a roundup of the new smart appliances—washers and dryers, ovens, refrigerators, shower heads, even smart toilets—and discusses how builders offering smart appliances like the Life|ware connected LG washers and dryers or TMIO ovens can give themselves a competitive edge.
New Dream Homes and Condos Showcases Life|ware
05.01.2007
Canadian magazine New Dream Homes and Condos on The Future of Home Automation Today.
Custom Retailer Magazine Lauds Life|ware/DSC Partnership
05.01.2007
Custom Retailer describes the Life|ware/DSC partnership as a way to
make it easier for home security dealers to enter the home automation and entertainment market.
Customers who discover the benefits of Life|ware for home security control and begin exploring other features of Media Center and Life|ware will be asking their installers for more. Lifeware Bundle Could Help Security Dealers Offer Home Automation/Entertainment.
Life|ware in Multi-Housing News
05.01.2007
In Smart Ways to Control Energy Usage, Multi-Housing News discusses how multifamily property owners are saving money and energy using automated systems. A highlight is EI's first multifamily project.
NextGen Home and Life|ware Highlighted in K/BIS Article
05.01.2007
An article on the NextGen home at the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show & Conference notes that the "biggest highlight" in the home is EI's remote and touch panels, powered by Life|ware. NextGen "Industry Trends" Demonstration Home Only One of Its Kind at the World's Largest Industry Kitchen & Bath Show.
Vision Magazine on Web Services for Devices
March/April 2007
"The Digital Heart of the Home" discusses Web Services and its impact on the future of home automation. Life|ware is highlighted as a leader in adopting DPWS and encouraging DPWS-enabled devices. The current digital issue is available here. The article starts on page 12.
Modern Home Theater on "Understanding Home Automation"
Feb 2007
An in-depth discussion of the best choices in home automation, including Life|ware. The article is available on Modern Home Theater's website: Understanding Home Automation, Part One.
Residential Design and Build, "Total Home Control"
Feb/March 2007
Residential Design and Build magazine discusses Life|ware's benefits. Read the article: Total Home Control.
Web Services Fuel Device Control Nirvana
04.02.2007
CEPro's Derek Flickinger discusses the benefits of Web Services for home automation. Using Web Services to Control Devices through Vista Media Center.
DSC Offers Life|ware™ Powered Package
04.02.2007
CEPro reports on the new Digital Security Controls (DSC) DSC HOME Powered by Life|ware package. The package includes security, TV, and a media server, all web services enabled and powered by Life|ware. Read the article: DSC Tackles Home Automation with Life|ware Package.
First Dedicated Life|ware™ Showroom Opens in Naples, FLA
03.26.2007
Custom Retailer reports on Wireless Home, a Naples, Florida custom A/V and home control dealer which has become the first dedicated showroom for Life|ware. EI Lauds Opening of First Dedicated Life|ware Showroom.
Sound & Vision: Home of Tomorrow
03.14.2007
In an extensive profile of Exceptional Innovation, Sound & Vision says
We have seen the future, and it's in Columbus, Ohio.
Sound & Vision walks through Woodfield Hall, EI's showcase home, and likes what they see. Read the article.
Exceptional Innovation Featured in The Perfect Vision
03.06.2007
A Digital Home for the Rest Of Us is the title of The Perfect Vision's article about the way home automation and the home automation market has evolved in the last few years. Exceptional Innovation is cited as one of the major drivers of the shift to more modular, lower-cost and open-platform systems, and EI's Seale Moorer is interviewed in a sidebar Q&A. Check out the March issue! The Perfect Vision.
Exceptional Innovation Brings Bruce Hornsby to EHX
02.21.2007
Exceptional Innovation and CEPro present Grammy winner Bruce Hornsby at EHX Spring 2007 in Orlando, Florida! Hornsby will perform Friday, March 9th at 9:00 PM at the Orange County Convention Center's Linda W. Chapin theater. Attendees can get their tickets by visiting the Exceptional Innovation booth (#800) or CEPro in the show floor lobby. For more about the Bruce Hornsby show and Exceptional Innovation's booth at EHX, check out CEPro's story Exceptional Innovation Brings Bruce Hornsby to EHX.
Home-Product Heaven
02.16.2007
Dow Jones Market Watch includes Best Buy/Life|ware's Connected Home package in their top 10 items at this year's International Builder's show. Life|ware connected partner TMIO's Connect IO Intelligent Oven is also featured.
CES Roundup, Part 2
I4U News, 01.18.2007: Next Gen Home Walkthrough
CEPro.com, 01.18.2007: Touring the Next Gen Home
Engadget.com, 01.11.2007: NextGen Home Tour
TMCnet, 01.10.2007: New software merges devices and technology, as demonstrated at Next Gen Home
Gizmodo.com, 01.09.2007: Next Gen House: Life|ware Touchscreen Up Close
Gizmodo.com, 01.09.2007: Next Gen Home: Push Those Buttons, Never Get Up Again
Yahoo! Tech, 01.08.2007: CES 2007: Robin Visits the NextGen House
ABC7.com, 01.07.2007: CES Show: Bill Gates' Vision Coming to Life
Dealerscope (Video), 01.07.2007: CES Open Mic: Joe Paone Interviews Life|ware's Jason Leonardelli (5 min.)
Optimizing Media Center with Life|ware's Mike Seamons
01.05.2007
Mike Seamons tells CEPro how to get the most out of your Media Center PC. Optimizing Media Center: Stripping it Down, Setting it Up
Home of the Future with Life|ware
01.08.2007
From Forbes.com, video coverage of the NextGen house at CES. See How your kitchen may soon look, thanks to LifeWare, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard.
CES Roundup
CRN, 01.11.2007: CES 2007: Day in the Life of a Digital Integrator
CEPro, 01.09.2007: Monster First to Announce Media Center Extender; Teams with Lifeware
BBC News (Video), 01.08.2007: Multi-function gadgets rule at CES
My Way News, 01.08.2007: Gates Continues Push for Wired Homes
CEPro, 01.07.2007: Russound Launching Viiv Media Center with Lifeware
Electronic Design, 01.07.2007: The NexGen Home
StarTribune.com (Minneapolis-St.Paul), 01.07.2007: Best Buy says it has all you need to make yours a 'smart house'
