In German households, they are everywhere–on average, four to six per home. Overall, more than 150 million remote controls ...

I haven’t yet upgraded to using a single, universal remote-control unit to manage the diverse electronic products in my “media center.” That fancy designation is very misleading, as the room includes ...

Monitoring and control is becoming ubiquitous, Ed Bukont tells us, and the centralization isn’t just for transmitter sites.