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This year’s Azione Unlimited fall meeting in Austin was another upbeat affair, but there were moments in the short time that I was there...

One of the most important business challenges left for our channel to solve is how to derive profits from client services, as margins on...

We took our family vacation a little earlier this summer because here in the Midwest most of the kids go back to school in...

How a Sensor Could Have Saved My Basement From Flooding

There are times when my favorite “aha” insights at industry conferences come from scripted moments during keynote sessions or “bold-print” presentations.

As a Colts and Yankees fan, I have a couple of reasons to root against teams from New England.

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is not an easy hang.

What Will Be the Next Alexa?

One of the challenges with the home technology integration industry is finding a consistent business model for success. The trouble is that each market...

CEDIA certainly was all about adding Alexa voice control to custom-centric control systems and once-combative brands playing nice with the now more inclusive Sonos...

I had never met anyone from Cyprus, the tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea tucked below Turkey and above Egypt, where the spoken language...

The CEDIA show motto is Think Big. For Vin Bruno, that seems to be a personal mantra, as well.

My relationship with Alexa is complicated. On the one hand, she’s great at telling me the weather or setting a kitchen timer when I...

The next time you bring a job candidate in for an interview, consider this: he or she is probably better trained at being interviewed...

Many of you built your businesses to cater to the needs and desires of Boomers. We’re at a critical inflection point now, however, and...

Lately it seems like International CES is like a Powerball lottery, where you’ve got to be in it to win it, but in reality...

I’m fortunate to have grown up with parents who were great role models.

Knowing that the independent sales rep organization, IPRO, would be holding its 2015 conference right before the CEDIA show in Dallas next month, I...

The release of the Brad Bird-directed movie Tomorrowland got me to thinking about the amazing power of Disney, and how my family and I...

I’m still hip to this Internet of Things thang, but last month, for about one week, there was a huge amount of buzz about...

During last month’s Azione Unlimited buying group Spring Soiree in Nashville, TN, Peter Sieffert, from Swiss Avenue Partners in San Diego discussed how he...

I’m usually not a demanding person, but you really need to register for CEDIA’s Business Xchange Conference today.

CES has evolved greatly over the years to include more and more to include products that, while interesting, aren’t anything like products one would...

Starbucks, love ’em or hate ’em, has changed the way we think about coffee.

For this month’s cover story on top selling products of 2014, I asked a question about a technology/product trend that was most surprising to...

There’s nothing better than learning about a creative new business solution or anecdote while chatting with integrators at an industry event.