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Give Your Home a Brain for X-mas (Wired News: Gadgets and Gizmos Product Review)
Just because you're not Bill Gates doesn't mean you can't live in a "smart home." For years, Seattle-based X10 has been allowing electronics enthusiasts to ooh and aah their friends and neighbors with lamps that automatically turn on at dusk, stereos that play music when someone walks into the room and remote controls that can change the "mood" of all the lights in the house at once.
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The Gadget Guy, David Novak puts ActiveHome Pro To The Test
With Active Home Pro software and its accompanying PC interface, wireless switches, remotes and some wireless lamp modules, I’ve become all empowered in front of my computer. Read More

Even With New Competition, X10 Remains Leader of PC Home Control Platform
Remote control of lights and appliances can be not only cool but incredibly convenient for those of us seeking the modern digital home. Imagine all inside and outside lights, sprinklers, fountains and almost any other appliance imaginable working automatically in concert with each other to provide the ultimate in safety and comfort. Read More

In The News

March 31, 2005
X10 First to Develop and Market Completely Integrated Home Control/Video Surveillance System for Ultimate High-Tech Safety, Security and Fun
Its been thought about for years, but required a complete overhaul of X10's industry leading home control hardware combined with brand new software for video surveillance. An all-in-one home control system priced for the everyday homeowner yet powerful enough for the folks seeking a more sophisticated solution.
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Reported By: Yahoo!

January 18, 2005
X10 lets you automate your home like a pro
Imagine you're standing on the porch, trying to open the front door in the dark. The porch light would make it easier to see, but the switch is in the house. X10's Active Home Professional can help you avoid this type of predicament. Once installed, you can zap the porch light on with a supplied keychain remote.
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Reported By: Denver Post, AZ Central

January 9, 2005
ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition Features X10 Products in the New Dore Family Home
Seven days in Kingston, Wash. changed the lives of one special family and more than 700 volunteers. ABC-TV viewers nationwide witnessed an amazing story unfold on one of the network's popular television series, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." X10 Wireless Technology products are featured for their PC lighting control system. 
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December 20, 2004
ActiveHome PC Kit Remembers To Turn Lights Off
X10's ActiveHome Pro PC Lighting Control Kit can transform you into a house magician. Using the kit's software and your PC, you can create "magical" commands to turn the lights on with a keychain remote, set lights to go off at preset times, and adjust lighting levels for different activities, such as reading or watching TV.
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Reported By: USA Today

December 16, 2004
Putting Lights and Appliances At the Home PC's Command
If your idea of home automation is clapping to turn the lights off, you may be interested in a new device whose module approach to controlling lights and appliances is only slightly more complex than playing computer solitaire.
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Reported By: New York Times

December 14, 2004
Ladies Beware of X10's New PC Home Control Starter Kit for Under $100 ... Before Long, You'll be Begging for More
HGTV winner Aisha never imagined the possibilities associated with her decision to install X10's new PC Home Control Starter kit as part of a home remodel for the hit series "Curb Appeal." "I love having X10 control our holiday lights. In fact it's so easy that I could barely control myself. In the past, I would have to walk back and forth from the garage to turn on and off sets of lights plugged into wall outlets."
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Reported By: MSNBC News | Hoovers Online | Yahoo Finance | Lycos

December 9, 2004
REVIEW: Kit Automates Holiday Lights
It's a chore that can quickly chill the warmth of the holiday season: Trudging outside each winter night to unplug the lights. If you don't want to leave everything on all the time and pad the electric company's profits there's now a relatively inexpensive way of remotely controlling the power without having to rewire the house. X10 Wireless Technology Inc. sells a $99 kit called ActiveHome Pro that includes three circuit-switching modules that plug into electrical outlets and are controlled from either a PC or handheld remotes. The hardware installation was simple...it's an effective way to show off your inner geek - and stay warm.
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Reported By: ABC News | Washington Post | Forbes | Seattle PI

December 8, 2004
Affordable Home Automation
Bloomberg Boot Camp, a report on today’s technology. It’s technology called X-10, that has been around for years. But X10 Wireless Technology is breathing new life into the system….with an easy to use updated software package called ActiveHome Pro. Using the drag and drop software…and an interface box that connects to a USB port, it is simple to set up timers to control lights, appliances, cameras and others devices that use X-10 modules.
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Reported By: Bloomberg Radio

November 30, 2004
How To Have A Greener Xmas
Christmas lights can be beautiful, but they can also burn a hole in the wallet. CBS News Tech Guru Larry Magid reports on X10's most sophisticated controller, the Active Home Pro, which is kind to both your budget and the environment. "I have one lamp module connected to our holiday lights and plan to use another for our Christmas tree lights when we set up the tree in a couple of weeks."
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Reported By: CBS News

November 8, 2004:
PC Lighting Control for the Whole Family - X10's New ActiveHome Pro
In this golden age of technology, families seem to spend less time on their home computers. We can blame this trend on the demands of modern day work and school coupled with the fact that most kids and adults spend a majority of their day already working on computers. Even though Bill Gates' dream of a computer in every home is nearly a reality, many machines sit idle except for an occasional email, digital photo and of course game.
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Reported By: Yahoo Finance

November 5, 2004:
Planning to Spend Thousands on Your Home Remodel? Think Again. X10's New $49.99 PC Lighting Control is All You Need.
San Francisco couple Stephen and Aisha realized what thousands of other consumer technology enthusiasts have already discovered about X10's New ActiveHome Pro PC Lighting Control System. For under $50 dollars, you can quickly transform your home remodel project into a high-tech wonderland. The sophisticated software program is extraordinarily easy to use and provides lights and appliances with a mind of their own.
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Reported By: Yahoo Finance

November 3, 2004:
ActiveHome Pro featured on Computer America radio program with Craig Crossman
Originally for those who like to tinker, you know, those people who hang out at Radio Shack... they would take things apart and see how they work. Now there back with their ActiveHome Pro PC Home Control system and this one is for the general consumer. It’s easy to install and set up and gives you a lot more control over everything in your home. Much more than ever before. Here with me in the studio is Jeff Denenholz. Jeff is VP/PR for X10 WTI. He’s here to tell us all about it.
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Reported By: Yahoo Finance | MSNBD | Excite Money |

October 20, 2004:
X10's calling All Geeks, Nerds and Hackers with New Software Development Kit!
In an unprecedented move, X10 Wireless Technology, Inc. announced today the release of an early Halloween gift for software geeks -- the first-of-its-kind Software Development Kit for their ActiveHome Pro System. 
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Reported By: Yahoo Finance | O'Reilly Network

October 6, 2004:
X10's ActiveHome Pro PC Home Control Platform Wins PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award
Selling for as low as $99, ActiveHome Professional excels with its extensibility and friendly software and is a strong choice for those who don't need web access. PC Magazine November 2nd Issue. 
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October 4, 2004:
World Premiere of X10’s ActiveHome Pro PC Home Control System; Experience the Rebirth of COOL
With Over One Million Original ActiveHome Units Sold, Huge Customer Demand for New Release. X10 Wireless Technology, Inc. today announced the much-anticipated release of the ActiveHome Pro Remote Control System for the home.
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Reported By: Yahoo Finance