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Honeywell announces LYNX Touch 5100 security system

Ben Kersey — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:11:30 +0000

Nest may believe that Honeywell is “worse than a patent troll” and holding back theromstat innovation, but the latter company does business in other areas too. They also build security systems, and the company has announced a new one in its range: the LYNX Touch 5100. According to Honeywell, it’s the first self-contained security system

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Nest: “Honeywell is worse than a patent troll”

Ben Kersey — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:25:33 +0000

If you don’t know the name Honeywell, you might be surprised to find they’re one of the world’s largest manufacturers of thermostats. They sued upstart Nest over the smart thermostat, citing patent infringement. Now, Nest has shot back, saying that Honeywell is “worse than a patent troll”, with their patents “hopelessly invalid.” The Verge takes

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HVAC stalwart Honeywell could’ve bested Nest decades ago

Chris Burns — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:41:15 +0000

It seems that one of the world’s largest thermostat makers, Honeywell, had a learning unit quite a few years before the now-popular “Nest” did, and nixed it soon after its conception. Speaking with Honeywell’s President of Environmental and Combustion Controls division miss Beth Wozniak, GigaOM’s Katie Fehrenbacher found that Honeywell decided to drop the program

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