AllShare connects the TV to compatible mobile devices and home appliances wirelessly and creates a smart center for media and whole-home automation.
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As a connected car, the Insect naturally ties in with entertainment and navigation services (in this case, via Toyota's Smart Center).
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As part of its smart-grid activities, aimed at achieving a low-carbon society through efficient energy use, TMC is conducting trials in Japan of its Toyota Smart Center pilot program, which plans to link people, automobiles and homes for integrated control of energy consumption.
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Research at the smart cities center, she said, will include smart thermostats "that learn our personal needs and habits and adjust themselves, " conserving energy.
One Cisco telepresence suite in a Smart Work Center, for example, could set a city back six figures.
And GE (NYSE:GE) recently announced that it will be partnering with the City of Yangzhou to build a smart grid demonstration center.
The project integrates a mobile assistive robot (Hector) that can work collaboratively with a smart home and remote control center to better support older people living at home.
At the heart of the Smart Choices initiative is the Keystone Center, a Keystone, Colo.
There are also plans afoot to revitalize its branches, to make them more vibrant community hubs and for students homework help center, equipped with smart boards and free tutoring services.
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Other sources VoterHub uses include Rock the Vote, Turbo Vote, Google Election Center, official state election websites, Vote Smart, and Pollster.
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The living room television has long been the center of household content viewing, and with more capable smart TVs content will shift from broadcast programming to viewing that is more interactive.
Software marketer and kidney cancer survivor Dave deBronkart thought he was being smart when he downloaded his health records from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston into his account at Google Health, a new site that promises to help patients control their personal health records online.
With the rise of App stores and cloud centric software, these smart devices are quickly becoming a secondary part of the equation and the Apps themselves are taking center stage.
With built-in Wi-Fi connectivity and flash support, this offering creates a state-of-the-art entertainment center on any television monitor, allowing users to experience their favorite Android apps and the Smart TV experience without shelling out top dollar.
Meanwhile, Intel has been pushing its data center business, hard, which stands to gain regardless of whether the PC business is upended by smart phones and tablets.
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First, we must include data center expansion in power management and growth plans (this is in addition to other demands for a smart power grid to support activities such as charging a possible expansion of the number of electric vehicles).
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