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NEWS: Rackspace Partnership Announced

 

Red Atom Networks, LLC. is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Rackspace. Rackspace will provide a scalable and reliable hosting infrastructure for its cloud-based services, such as, hosted email and file backup. The infrastructure also allows for unlimited users and unlimited storage space for the Unleadify completed job archive which is managed by document retention policies.

NEWS: AMCEST Central Station Partnership Announced

 

Red Atom Networks is pleased to announce a partnership with AMCEST for professional central station monitoring of commercial and residential fire and burglar alarm contracts.  AMCEST is a UL listed central station established in 1975 that comes highly recommended.  AMCEST is a New Jersey company who has provided reliable safety and protective monitoring to customers throughout America.  We are proud to extend their services to our clients.

HDMI Explained Finally

Steven Cheung, Vidabox President, does a good job explaining the differences between the various versions of HDMI.  We are reposting excerpts of it here for your benefit:

 

This Isn’t Your Mother’s Kitchen

 

Getting Started in Home Control and Automation

 

There's a great introduction to home control and sutomation at the HD Living blog of the HTSA.   Nothing newnecessarily, but puts it in easily understood value propositions.  Take a look.

 

Big box stores, discount warehouse clubs, specialty A/V retailers and electronic systems contractors, like Red Atom Networks, and others are all competing for your business.   Should you pay more money for the SAME exact product- no.  Should you pay more for a better product, yes.  

 

Will Consumers Pay for Energy Management?

Electronichouse.com has an article that summarizes a study which found that 15-20% of consumers are willing to spend between $5 - $10 per month to save 10% on their home energy bills.  Entry-level solutions coming from ADT, Comcast and Verizon are hoping that this is true. 

 

Comparing 3D Systems

 

There are several options today for getting 3D at home- HDTV, front projector and screen, active glasses, passive glasses, etc.  Cepro.com has a short comparison of some of the options today.   There's also a good piece on the best demos at the recent CEDIA Expo in Atlanta. 

Is 3D Struggling to Become Mainstream?

 

Cepro.com has an interesting article on 3D adoption.   The net of it is that most folks don't really care about it.  With the economy down, people have other things to worry about.  This technology would have been great if it had been introduced about 5-10 years ago when people had the time to care about it.  

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