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If you’re just starting to build out a smart home, look no further than Zack Whittaker’s excellent starter kit guide, which should lay the groundwork for a connected home experience. But i

Philips Hue bulbs are pretty great, but they have a mortal enemy: the humble light switch. If you’ve got a Hue bulb tied to a standard light switch, flipping that switch means the Hue bulb loses

Smart lighting company Philips Hue has a new product in its home entertainment catalog that should make a smart TV lighting setup much easier and more powerful. The new Philips Hue Play gradient light

Signify has steadily expanded its Hue line of smart lighting products to cover the entire home, inside and out. But while the ability to remotely control your lighting, including adjusting color, inte

Maybe you love the sound of your alarm clock blaring in the morning, heralding a new day full of joy and adventure. More likely, though, you don’t. If you prefer a more gentle wake-up (and have

Alexa wasn’t the only thing that crashed over Christmas due to an influx of new users. Apparently, Philips Hue has been having an outage, as well. A multi-day outage, in fact. The company confir

I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s probably pretty tough getting the public to notice your new browser. Most internet users are pretty set in their ways at this point. There are some prett

Philips Hue is expanding its line up of smart light devices with a motion sensor. This one is pretty straightforward — when you walk in front of the sensor, your Hue lights will turn on. What’s di

Let’s be honest, the Philips Hue app has a horrible design. But this is just a bad memory now as the company has released <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/philips-hue-gen-2/i

Philips is arguably the largest connected light bulb manufacturer with its <a target="_blank" href="http://meethue.com/">Philips Hue system</a>, but its color light bulbs are quite expensive. A color

Philips shipped a controversial firmware update for its Philips Hue bridge yesterday. The company <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/15/philips-hue-drm-update-blocks-third-party-light-bulbs/">dec

It's 2003 all over again, DRMs are back. This time, Philips has released <a target="_blank" href="http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/friends-hue-update">an update</a> to its bridge softwa

The <a target="_blank" href="http://meethue.com/">Philips Hue</a> product line is great, but it's also very expensive with some starter kits costing $200. But if you really want to be able to control

Philips has a new addition to their Hue smart lighting system: The Hue Go, a portable light that packs three hours of use on a full charge before it needs to be plugged in again. The Hue Go has a sing

We understand that the Internet of Things is going to be big. As employees and consumers, we will be able to make decisions based on more accurate data. As managers, we will have new tools that reduce

The Philips Hue system provides lighting that you can control with your smartphone, and automate with location gating and time-based alarms. But for all its fancy magic, I still find myself using phys

Berlin-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.airfy.com/en">Airfy</a>, maker of the Airfy WiFi router that our very own John Biggs called <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/airfy-is-a-wi-fi

WiFi LED lightbulbs are cool -- I'm currently enamoured with a pair of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/17/lifx-is-a-smartphone-controlled-lightbulb/">LIFX bulbs</a> I'm testing for an upcoming

Philips Hue is already a pretty effective and easy way of setting up a connected home lighting system, but it can be even easier thanks to changes Apple made in iOS 8. The update lets third-party deve

In what seems to be the beginning of a real-life Wall-E situation, Philips has introduced an even easier way to control your home’s Hue smart lighting system. Because, you know, fishing your sma