Technology Integrator

07/09/2020

To our Technology Integrator readers:

It’s been quite a while since we’ve caught up with you, but our story is not over...

We want to continue offering you the best content in the technology integration and consumer technology retailing space in a way that is most effective and useful to our readers.

So, we’ve decided to move forward with the Connected Design and Dealerscope brands that, together, will encompass everything you loved about Technology Integrator.

Connected Design will continue to highlight the latest smart home technologies through projects, features, and case studies that are both visually stunning and informative.

Dealerscope as always, will offer retail readers the knowledge they need to make the right decisions in the fast-moving consumer technology market so that they, in turn, might become more profitable.

We encourage you to visit our new Connected Design page where you can expect a continuous flow of smart home updates, project previews featured in our magazine, Facebook Live events, and much more.

We truly value your readership and appreciate you putting your trust in us to provide the most up to date, accurate information across the many aspects of the consumer technology space.

As always, stay safe – and stay connected!

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12/06/2018

Thermador is catering to the ultra-luxury client who is deep into entertaining, with two of its newest products: http://ow.ly/NJGh30mT9xO

Thermador is catering to the ultra-luxury client who is deep into entertaining, with two of its newest products.

12/06/2018

iRoom, a manufacturer of intelligent iPad docking solutions, announced its plants to open a Southern California office and move to a direct-to-dealer U.S. sales model: http://ow.ly/kR7g30mT9w0

iRoom, a manufacturer of intelligent iPad docking solutions, announced its plants to open a Southern California office and move to a direct-to-dealer U.S. sales model.

12/06/2018

James Loudspeaker introduced the SPL3LCR-75 sound bar engineered to provide an off-the-shelf, cost-effective premium solution for technology integrators: http://ow.ly/PW5330mT9u9

James Loudspeaker introduced the SPL3LCR-75 sound bar engineered to provide an off-the-shelf, cost-effective premium solution for technology integrators.

12/06/2018

Prior to Black Friday, Amazon sent an email to some customer notifying them that a "technical error" resulted in their names and emails being exposed. Since then? Radio silence: http://ow.ly/tw8s30mT9sv

Prior to Black Friday, Amazon sent an email to some customer notifying them that a "technical error" resulted in their names and emails being exposed. Since then? Radio silence.

12/06/2018

HTSN and Nationwide Marketing group announced an exclusive partnership with the Metra Home Theater Group that will bring Metra’s easy ordering portal and logistical capabilities exclusively to members: http://ow.ly/L8CU30mT9oi

HTSN and Nationwide Marketing group announced an exclusive partnership with the Metra Home Theater Group that will bring Metra’s easy ordering portal and logistical capabilities exclusively to members.

11/28/2018

Getting a handle on keyless entry technology, Crestron announced a new partnership with ekey on a new Fingerprint Door Entry system: http://ow.ly/jqYA30mMRat

Getting a handle on keyless entry technology, Crestron partners with ekey for a new Fingerprint Door Entry system.

11/28/2018

Reflectel, a New York-based manufacturer of framed mirror TVs, has announced its new Signature Line, which it describes as an elegant and affordable way to disguise a television: http://ow.ly/ZcGf30mMQqm

The company's new, affordable frame options will soon be available

11/28/2018

The Open Connectivity Foundation announced today that its OCF 1.0 specification has been ratified as an international standard by the ISO/IEC's Joint Technical Committee: http://ow.ly/j7Nj30mMQkH

The Open Connectivity Foundation announced today that its OCF 1.0 specification has been ratified as an international standard by the ISO/IEC's Joint Technical Committee.

11/28/2018

CEDIA closes out the year with a report to members that looks back - and looks forward to 2019 initiatives and goals: http://ow.ly/tysh30mMQim

The organization closes out the year with a report to members that looks back - and looks forward

11/16/2018

Luxul has launched a new Self-Healing capability for select models of their managed network switches, aimed at helping integrators save time and costs associated with simple service calls: http://ow.ly/WiBT30mDxkM

Luxul has launched a new Self-Healing capability for select models of their managed network switches, aimed at helping integrators save time and costs associated with simple service calls.

11/16/2018

Known for their made-to-order custom products, Da-Lite has introduced a ready-to-ship electric screen to serve integrators who need a screen in short time.=: http://ow.ly/UPqw30mDxjL

Known for their made-to-order custom products, Da-Lite has introduced a ready-to-ship electric screen to serve integrators who need a screen in short time.

11/16/2018

For the first time since acquiring the Nuvo brand back in 2012, Legrand has introduced a product line under that name—a series of powered subwoofers: http://ow.ly/Bw2N30mDxiz

For the first time since acquiring the Nuvo brand back in 2012, Legrand has introduced a product line under that name—a series of powered subwoofers.

11/16/2018

The latest from Frank White: Our industry has so many resources to amplify your project management skills, from just a simple overview to full-day immersion sessions to equip and deepen understanding: http://ow.ly/D7Wl30mDxgs

From an operational standpoint, Frank White thinks there is still a lot to learn about how you are budgeting your labor proposals.

11/16/2018

Learn how one integrator has turned the Modus VR platform into a game changing home theater sales tool: http://ow.ly/2gYE30mDxd8

Since it implemented the Modus VR platform into its home theater sales process, Utah-based integrator Argenta has seen a major improvement in sales and client satisfaction.

11/16/2018

What gave this project a unique set of challenges for Manhasset, N.Y.-based integrator Home Theater of Long Island was that it was in a building that had once housed an NYC Police Department Precinct: http://ow.ly/WPFA30mDxbe

What gave this project a unique set of challenges for Manhasset, N.Y.-based integrator Home Theater of Long Island was that it was in a building that had once housed an NYC Police Department Precinct.

11/12/2018

Atlantic Control Technologies team was tasked with incorporating modern-day technology into the design of this Rosslyn, Va. penthouse suite: http://ow.ly/ICs130mAsyn

Atlantic Control Technologies team was tasked with incorporating modern-day technology into the design of this Rosslyn, Va. penthouse suite.

11/12/2018

DIY (or “Do It Yourself) is getting a load of industry ink right now. Scare scenarios - semi-real or imagined - are threatening tactics that get reader engagement. And evidently that is the end all for some publications - we get that: http://ow.ly/ZuB430mAsuO

Frank White has seen it first hand: the DIY market is in full swing. But is is all doom and gloom or is there white space that we might be missing?

11/12/2018

Foxconn, two others, join WiSA's growing membership roster: http://ow.ly/Gs9o30mAsoA

The Wireless Speaker and Audio Association (WiSA) announced that three organizations, including Foxconn Technology Group, have joined the group's membership ranks.

11/07/2018

The HAY for Sonos One collection launched this week: http://ow.ly/rMLf30mwBW1

The HAY for Sonos One Collection, which features five new color options, officially went on sale November 5 and will be available until supplies run out.

11/07/2018

Known for their DIY smart home solutions, iDevices announced the launch of a new Pro program for installers, distributors and builders: http://ow.ly/y7PA30mwBTu

iDevices, a company that has made its name operating in the DIY smart home space, is turning its attention to the professional installer with its new iDevices Pro membership program.

11/07/2018

Rayva, which specializes in providing turnkey, engineered home theaters, has a further goal: making inroads with the design community: http://ow.ly/eYgX30mwBeE

How Rayva is strategizing for these symbiotic relationships

11/07/2018

Focal's latest offerings promise to help installers add a soundtrack to a terrace or garden: http://ow.ly/E7x330mwBdm

Focal's latest offerings to help installers add a soundtrack to a terrace or garden

11/06/2018

Sonos has officially launched the much anticipated HAY for Sonos One collection. This special series of colors will only be available for a limited time: http://ow.ly/BXQN30mvH0G

11/06/2018

Remembering a titan of the CE/CI industry, Joe Clayton, who passed over the weekend: http://ow.ly/hG7X30mvGY7

The CE industry mourns a legend as Joseph P. “Joe” Clayton, a seminal consumer electronics industry figure and former President and CEO of DISH, has passed at the age of 69.

11/06/2018

How Rayva is strategizing for these symbiotic relationships between integrators and designers: http://ow.ly/KXjS30mvGXC

How Rayva is strategizing for these symbiotic relationships

11/06/2018

InnerSpace Electronics, a custom electronics and home technology integrator, has been honored by Lutron Electronics with the 2018 Excellence Award for "Best Use of Lutron's High-Performance LED Fixtures."

Check out more here: http://ow.ly/YEIp30muEon

InnerSpace Electronics has been honored by Lutron Electronics with the 2018 Excellence Award for "Best Use of Lutron's High-Performance LED Fixtures."

11/05/2018

Control4 posted a record revenue total during its most recent quarter: http://ow.ly/1LPX30muEc3

In a quarter that saw Control4 launch its Certified Showroom program and its new EA series of controllers, the home automation manufacturer set a revenue record.

11/05/2018

InnerSpace Electronics has been honored by Lutron Electronics with the 2018 Excellence Award for "Best Use of Lutron's High-Performance LED Fixtures."

Read more here: http://ow.ly/H6QI30muEh4

InnerSpace Electronics has been honored by Lutron Electronics with the 2018 Excellence Award for "Best Use of Lutron's High-Performance LED Fixtures."

11/05/2018

It's easy to blame all your woe's on Amazon but Frank White has some advice on leveraging our own industry to muscle them out before it is too late: http://ow.ly/XrdA30muEet

It is easy to blame all your woe's on Amazon but Frank White has some advice on leveraging our own industry to muscle them out before it is too late.

11/05/2018

In a quarter that saw Control4 launch its Certified Showroom program and its new EA series of controllers, the home automation manufacturer set a revenue record: http://ow.ly/8NX530muE9D

In a quarter that saw Control4 launch its Certified Showroom program and its new EA series of controllers, the home automation manufacturer set a revenue record.

11/02/2018

We hear it from every industry and the same holds true for integration contractors – one of the biggest turds in the room is Amazon: http://ow.ly/VRbJ30mt11h

It is easy to blame all your woe's on Amazon but Frank White has some advice on leveraging our own industry to muscle them out before it is too late.

11/02/2018

An array of options that keep iPads aesthetically accessible and charged thanks to iRoom's new dock-and-lock solutions: http://ow.ly/rWBV30mt0Xz

An array of options that keep iPads aesthetically accessible and charged

11/02/2018

Certified Showrooms program, other business initiatives, drive record revenue in Q3 for Control4: http://ow.ly/LYwe30mtv7C

In a quarter that saw Control4 launch its Certified Showroom program and its new EA series of controllers, the home automation manufacturer set a revenue record.

11/02/2018

From : A Celebration of Clarity: http://ow.ly/7nNM30mt0Wq

This nearly 10,000-square-foot penthouse in Brussels, Belgium tasked Jan Martens, integrator on the project and founder of the Belgian installation firm Woelf, with outfitting this living space.

11/02/2018

James Loudspeaker Appoints the MRL Company as Independent Reps for the Upper Midwest Region: http://ow.ly/3zF530mt0VD

James Loudspeaker has appointed the MRL Company as their independent sales representation covering North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.

11/01/2018

U.K.-based iFi audio has a knack for developing some ultra portable yet ultra powerful audio technology. The latest example is their high-end xCAN headphone amp: http://ow.ly/30Zb30ms8ot

iFi audio has launched the xCAN, a portable and versatile headphone amplifier that it says is powerful enough to drive some of the most power-hungry headphones on the market.