Meedio Automates The Digital Home With Acquisition of HouseBot Software
Meedio LLC today announced that it has acquired the HouseBot home automation application from CeBotics LLC. HouseBot extends Meedio's portfolio of digital lifestyle management products by providing control over technologies that reach into consumers' everyday lives.
Houston, TX (PRWEB) July 27, 2004 -– Meedio LLC today announced that it has acquired the HouseBot home automation application from CeBotics LLC. HouseBot provides control over technologies that extend into consumers' everyday lives such as lights, telephones, heating & cooling systems, security systems, and any other devices supported by one of HouseBot's many interfaces. The software will be available from Meedio's website at http://www.meedio.com/ under the Meedio HouseBot brandname.
"The acquisition of HouseBot marks an important step in Meedio's strategy of making digital technologies easy for consumers to control," says Meedio CEO Victor Koosh. This strategy began in September 2003 with the formation of Meedio LLC by the creator of a Home Theater PC (HTPC) application named myHTPC. After more than a half-million downloads, myHTPC quickly became the leading software for HTPC, entertainment PC, and media center systems. Meedio then took the feedback from its active user community and developed a groundbreaking new digital media application named Meedio Essentials which was also released today. Meedio HouseBot extends this strategy by providing control over audio/video equipment, home automation devices, and even other software applications. Meedio HouseBot offers a simple interface to control devices by using schedules, tasks, and remote controls. It can even turn a wireless PDA or tablet PC into a customizable software remote.
With Meedio HouseBot you can make your everyday devices work smarter and work better for you by making them work together in ways they never could before:
- Turn all your lights off when you start a movie in your home theater or arm your security system at night.
- Have your coffee maker automatically turn on when you disarm the system in the morning.
- Lower your heating and cooling bills by making your house work on your schedule.
- Answer an important phone call by automatically pausing your movie, raising the lights, and displaying Caller ID information on your TV when your phone rings.
CeBotics CEO Scott Leonard will serve as an advisor to Meedio and ensure that Meedio HouseBot continues to receive the same high level of support that HouseBot has been known for. "I'm very excited about the future of Meedio HouseBot," states Leonard. "It now has the opportunity to expand into new areas that it never could before."
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About Meedio
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Meedio LLC provides interactive interfaces to digital home systems such as home theaters, entertainment PC's, and home automation software. Meedio provides a robust software foundation, a suite of plug-in applications, a customizable user interface, and open standards-based API's. Meedio sells direct to consumers, through distributors, and to OEM's and ODM's who embed Meedio in consumer electronics, home theater, and home automation solutions. Meedio's software has been downloaded over 500,000 times, making it one of the most popular applications for digital lifestyle management available today.
Copyright 2004 Meedio LLC. All rights reserved. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.
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