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Amazon Fire TV, TV Stick Struck By Android Malware

Installers beware – customers sporting Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Sticks may be infected with malware. In fact, it may not just be Fire TV owners, as a piece of ...

Freeview Play Revamp Announced After £125M Investment

There’s no denying that Sky and Virgin Media have really been earning their monthly subscription fees recently. With a plethora of new features available on bot...

Lexicon Speaks Fluent Home Cinema

Respected US AV processing brand, available to custom integrators in the UK from Karma-AV, has widened its offering to AV the home cinema market with new proces...

Invision Launches Smart Home Security Event

Distributor Invision has added another event to this calendar for 2018 with a Smart Home Security Showcase planned for July 10 in Milton Keynes. Invision say...

Polk Assist Is A Sonos One Competitor With Google Assistant

Polk Audio is well-known for its architectural speaker line-up and range of home theatre systems, but now the speaker manufacturer wants to go head-to-head with...

Dutch Government Mandates 100% Smart Meter Roll-Out By 2020

If you need an example of a country fully embracing the Internet of Things, then all you need to do is look at our neighbours to the south. That’s because the D...

Sonos Confirms AirPlay 2 Support Coming In July

Since AirPlay 2’s official roll-out last week, the question on everyone’s lips has been – when is Sonos adding support? Well, now the company has confirmed that...

Pioneer/Onkyo Products Now Work With Sonos Speakers

Sonos offers by far the most popular multi-room system on the market, and through its ‘Works with Sonos’ programme, the company is attempting to get other manuf...

IKEA Teases New Smart Speakers From Sonos Collaboration

IKEA made shockwaves through the industry when it announced a partnership with multi-room speaker manufacturer, Sonos. While we’re still waiting for the fruits ...

Essential Adds MQA To Smartphone

Essential Products, founded by Android co-founder Andy Rubin, has partnered with MQA to deliver MQA studio quality sound to the Essential Phone. This boost t...