Keeping consumer foothold, GE launches 'connected home' products

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Keeping consumer foothold, GE launches 'connected home' products

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/keeping-consumer-foothold-ge-launches-connected-home-products-214059523--sector.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/M0YDEXTWNAg3ovhLR5J11g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-11-11T214059Z_1_LYNXNPEAAA15E_RTROPTP_2_ELECTROLUX-GENERAL-ELECTRIC.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The General Electric logo is seen in a Sears store in Schaumburg" align="left" title="The General Electric logo is seen in a Sears store in Schaumburg" border="0" /></a>By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite General Electric Co's impending sale of its appliances business, the company is not abandoning the consumer. The U.S. conglomerate, along with startup invention company Quirky, on Tuesday revealed seven &quot;connected home&quot; retail products that allow people to remotely control and monitor such things as temperature, doors and windows, water leakage and energy usage. The GE/Quirky products will compete with an increasingly crowded field of companies using sensors to develop &quot;smart home&quot; technology to help people control their environment in new ways. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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