iControl Networks, a provider of connected home technology and innovation, announced that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Alarm.com and FrontPoint Security, an Alarm.com customer, in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Since the invention of the electric bell ringer in 1831, Americans have relished the benefits of the ever-present doorbell to let them know someone's calling. A new nationwide survey shows that no matter how long we have doorbells as fixtures on front doors, we still have very strong and personal reactions to hearing them ring.

Nortek Inc., Providence, R.I., a global diversified company with technology-driven products and solutions for residential and commercial applications, signed a definitive agreement to acquire 2GIG Technologies Inc., a privately held company based in Lehi, Utah, from APX Group. 2GIG is a designer and supplier of residential security and home automation systems.

To characterize the state of the U.S. economy as a rollercoaster would be a severe understatement. Over the past year, the news cycle has constantly rocked back and forth and every which way possible detailing swings of good and bad news.

This was another big year for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. CES had more than 150,000 attendees with a record 1.9 million square feet of exhibit space from more than 3,250 companies.

AT&T announced plans to commercially launch AT&T Digital Life in eight markets this March.

It’s time to monetize. But isn’t it always time to monetize? No doubt, as Parks Associates, the Dallas-based market research and consulting company, brought together an early November webinar featuring an industry panel aimed at “Expanding Home Security: Understanding the New Value Proposition” and to flesh out the details while traditional home security monitoring shifts to interactive.

There is no end in sight to the skyrocketing growth of mobile apps. Mobile apps specifically add portability — a key benefit that enables consumers to monitor and control their systems from any place, via any device, at any time. Today more and more end users also expect apps. According to recent research reported on by ClickZ more than three out of every four consumers surveyed believed that every single