Releases | 2007
CES 2008 Honoree Life|ware 2.0.3 with Life|ware Visual Project Released
12.15.2007
Life|ware™ is proud to announce Life|ware 2.0.3, our latest and best-ever Life|ware software. With increased functionality, more connected partners, and our new configuration tool Life|ware Visual Project, Life|ware 2.0.3 is sure to increase dealer productivity and customer satisfaction. Plus Life|ware 2.0.3 and Life|media LMS 754 are 2008 CES Innovations Awards Honorees in the Integrated Home Systems category.
Life|amenities Enables Residents to Link to Concierge Services from their Televisions
09.05.2007
Life|ware™ introduces the Life|amenities concierge services program for multi-dwelling units (MDU). Calling for dry cleaning, arranging for taxi services and making dinner reservations has never been easier for urban hi-rise communities. With smart-home technology becoming the latest "utility" in new MDU building projects, builders and developers integrating Life|ware with Life|amenities into their projects have a clear point of differentiation to offer prospective buyers.
Life|ware™ Unveils New Hardware
09.05.2007
Life|ware™, the industry pioneer in Windows® Media Center-based digital entertainment and home automation, proudly announces a variety of compelling new hardware, led by the launch of the Life|media™ Servers with Quad CableCARD™ tuners. In addition, Life|ware's Life|media servers, Life|point™ touch panels, and Life|controller™ Web Services-enabled controllers are generally available to dealers. Storage devices and a new entry level Life|media Server will also be unveiled at the show.
Life|ware Ready™ Program Sets Benchmarks for Media Center Consoles
09.05.2007
Life|ware™, the leader in Microsoft Windows® Media Center hardware and software development, has created the Life|ware Ready™ program to rate vital aspects of their own Life|media™ servers as well as third-party Microsoft Windows Vista® entertainment-based consoles. Using standardized testing software and hardware benchmark metrics, Life|ware specialists test each product and assign ratings in an effort to adifferentiate between entertainment-focused media centers and productivity PCs, provide dealers with quality metrics to help them decide which media centers to sell, and encourage Windows Media Center-based OEMs to build more robust and reliable consoles.
Life|ware™ Announces Software Enhancements and New Partner Products
09.05.2007
With more dealers supporting the Windows® Media Center platform than ever before, Life|ware is committed to refining the software configuration process so that it runs as smoothly as our home automation software. Relying heavily on drag-and-drop capabilities, Life|ware's new configuration tool presents a single-step configuration process, making installs quicker and more efficient. Once all hardware and subsystems are installed, the new configuration tool offers a drag-and-drop, "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" user interface creator.
Additionally, NuVo, Russound, Philips, and Sirius Satellite radio all have exciting products that now work with Life|ware. Read all about it, or check it out at CEDIA.
ADT and Life|ware™ Partnership for Home Security
09.05.2007
ADT Security Services, a unit of Tyco International, today announced it will team up with Life|ware™ digital entertainment and home automation solutions to integrate ADT home security systems into the Life|ware digital home platform. Using a simple menu on a video or television monitor, homeowners will now be able to not only control home entertainment, lighting and temperature, but also their ADT security systems at home or from a secure web enabled connection.
Life|ware™ Partners Press Release Roundup
09.05.2007
Life|ware™ partners have made some exciting announcements at CEDIA!
Cooper ASPIRE RF™ New Wireless Control System Gets Top Honors
Philips Upgrades Pronto Remotes to Enable Advanced Two-way Multi-room Control
Russound and Life|ware Partner to Extend Hardware- and Software-based Home Automation Solutions
NuVo's Grand Concerto and Life|ware Make an Even Greater Connection
DSC Offers Web Services Enabled Security System
Exceptional Innovation Releases Life|ware™ 2.0 for Vista
03.08.2007
Life|ware™ digital entertainment and automation solutions announces the launch of Life|ware 2.0. Life|ware 2.0 features an entirely new, Microsoft® Windows® Vista™-based interface and enhanced performance managing a homes subsystems through Media Center to create a comprehensive digital living experience.
Life|ware 2.0 provides at-a-glance, gallery-style views of home subsystems — lights, thermostats, security, surveillance and more. By replicating the distinctive Windows Vista interface look, feel and navigation, Life|ware 2.0 presents a crisp interface that is intuitive, simple to learn and easy to use.
Exceptional Innovation Partners with The Momentum Group
02.10.2007
Exceptional Innovation and The Momentum Group (TMG) are proud to announce that Life|ware™ has been chosen for all of TMG's Multi Dwelling Unit (MDU) projects, and as the interface to RITA concierge services.
Exceptional Innovation Partners with Custom Builders USA
02.07.2007
Custom Builders USA has selected Life|ware™, Exceptional Innovation's digital entertainment and home control software as the electronics centerpiece for CBUSA's "Partners in Quality" program.
Exceptional Innovation Previews Life|ware™ 2.0 for Vista at CES
01.08.2007
Exceptional Innovation, producers of Life|ware™ digital entertainment and automation solutions, is excited to announce a live preview of Life|ware 2.0 at the Next Gen Home at CES 2007.
LG Appliances Now Life|ware™ Connected
01.08.2007
Washers and dryers are just the beginning as Exceptional Innovation and LG embark upon an appliance revolution that will converge white box goods into a Life|ware™ home network.
Best Buy for Business and Exceptional Innovation Announce ConnectedLife.Home<
01.08.2007
Life|ware™ software for digital entertainment and automation powers the ConnectedLife.Home™ packaged home automation solution now available from Best Buy For Business (BBFB).
Monster and Life|ware™ Partner to Introduce Monster Life
01.08.2007
Life|ware™ by Exceptional Innovation and Monster Cable Products are excited to announce an alliance to include Life|ware home control software in Monsters home automation endeavor, Monster Life.
New Russound® Smart Media Console Includes Life|ware™
01.05.2007
Russound's new Smart Media Console, designed from the ground up as a multiroom audio-video home entertainment, will also support home automation and systems integration with the inclusion of Life|ware software by Exceptional Innovation.
