eero Wi-Fi mesh routers on sale as Amazon’s acquisition closes

The newly-minted Amazon-owned eero is reiterating pledges to ensuring customers' privacy while they use their mesh Wi-Fi networks.

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Amazon acquiring eero to enrich its smart home, IoT strategies

The e-commerce platform giant has taken a financial liking to a mesh Wi-Fi network company. How will Amazon acquiring eero help its own position?

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Big deals for Google Wifi and Google Home at Google Store, Amazon, Target

Two sites are doing bundle deals for both Google Wifi and Google Home, but one is just taking a chunk outta that mesh network enabler.

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The future of WiFi is Mesh, and Google might be missing out

The secret to unlocking all the cool technological stuff you can do in your home is centered around a very reliable network. Smartphones and tablets; TVs and streaming sticks; printers, and laptop and desktop computers; game consoles; security cameras; wireless speakers; internet connected doorbells, door locks, door sensors, and garage door openers; motion sensors, temperature sensors, humidity sensors, and leak detectors; thermostats, smoke detectors, and CO detectors; smart light bulbs; and more, all of these devices rely on one singular thing: your home network.Be it wired or wireless, ...

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Google WiFi runs on USB Type-C to Pixel C spec

Google engineer and USB Type-C evangelist Benson Leung mentioned a bit of a discovery for Google WiFi, the network-meshing router modules that the company introduced this week.There’s nothing on the router’s spec sheet that just quite mentions what’s going on with the power adapter, — other than it has a 15W maximum, but the device only consumes 9W — but Leung announced that USB-C connectors are on the ...

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