Home Security: AT&T Digital Life vs Comcast Xfinity Home

Comcast and AT&T are two of largest ISP’s providing home Internet service. Both are also expanding into offering home security, home automation services that run over the Internet. 

While Xfinity Home has been widely available since 2012, Digital Life is just rolling out to more cities. 

An Xfinity Home vs Digital Life review compares the two services, their features and monthly costs. 

A quick summary – both offer a robust home security service but don’t expect any dramatic differences between themselves or with other large home security providers such as ADT, Vivint etc. 

Also, take a look at Xfinity Home vs ADT Pulse review to get a comparison of those providers.

ADT Home Automation Christmas Lights Ad

A nice ad for ADT Home Automation: Christmas Lights.

Turn on your home holiday lights from anywhere.

Santa’s FaceTime Number

It is getting close to Christmas. Do you know what Santa is bringing you this year? Perhaps you’d like Santa’s FaceTime number to find out?

While How to FaceTime Santa may not connect you with Santa yet but the busy elves are working on it. Keep checking often. Soon you may be able to FaceTime with Santa.

And you are not alone. Here are others looking for Santa’s FaceTime number/address.

Home Security Ads, from ADT to Xfinity Home, Vivint to DropCam

Home security and home automation services want to become essential services for the home – home utilities just like electricity and water.

Companies providing these services want you to know the value of these services and where you can sign up.

The Gallery of Home Security Ads displays recent ads from ADT to Xfinity Home, from Vivint to DropCam and more. Also shown ads for Nest automated thermostat, the company that is changing the market for home thermostats.

Picking Comcast Xfinity Home or ADT Pulse for Home Security

Are you looking to upgrade or add monitored home security for your home? If so, you’d want to evaluate Comcast Xfinity Home and ADT Pulse service for home security among others. 

Comcast and ADT are two of the largest service providers for the home with millions of customers. 

Xfinity Home is a new service offered by Comcast for home security, home automation and video security. While ADT Pulse is a similar service offered by ADT since last year. 

A comparison of Comcast Xfinity Home and ADT Pulse compares the features, pricing and contract terms for the two services. 

You may find that the two services are similar, in many ways, and will meet your needs. And, both also offer home automation, video security packages. If you are already a happy customer of one of them, then it will be an easy decision to add home security from the same provider. 

If you are looking for something different, perhaps different sets of features then check the list of Best Home Monitoring Services.

 

Comparing Fees for Payment Networks, Intuit to Paypal to Square

Mobile payments have grown significantly within the last year. You have many new options of accepting payments for your business.

It is now easy to accept credit card, debit card or bank payments at any location – not just at your physical business location. You can accept payments with your phone or tablet anywhere there is an Internet connection. Accepting payments is as simple as pulling out your phone/tablet.

Take a look at the fees charged by payment networks to decide which payment network works the best for you and your customers. And, if needed, use multiple networks to accept payments.

While bank payment networks such as Dwolla or Intuit have the lowest fees, credit card payment networks such as Square, Paypal, SailPay offer your customers the convenience of using their credit cards.

A nice Intuit GoPayment ad shows how you can accept payments anywhere you conduct business – even in the middle of a street in downtown Seattle.

TurboTax 2011 Issue, Incorrect Dependent Exemption

As a parent if you use TurboTax software to file both yours and your dependent child’s tax returns, be careful of this TurboTax 2011 issue “incorrect dependent exemption”, it can cost you a lot of time and extra paperwork.

Online Services to Speed Up Your PC

A PC that has started running slow is one of the most frustrating things to experience. Slowness can affect all versions of Windows – XP, Vista and Windows 7. The “slowness” may be due to malware that has infected the PC, registry errors, improperly configured PC or sometimes even the browser.

There are lots of online services to speed up your PC. For a fee, they promise to clean up your PC and make it run faster. The same page also shows how you can keep your PC clean and running fast for free.

 

ADT’s Cloud Video Security Service for Businesses

ADT has a new Cloud Video Security service that records video feeds from security cameras directly to the cloud. With this service, both monitoring and recording of video feeds is done over the Internet; no DVR’s are required locally.

The service called ADT Hosted Video is available for business users.

Check ADT Hosted Video Review to see if the service is right for you, pricing and what kind of cameras can be used with this service.

Providing video security in the cloud is a very positive step by ADT. It will make it easy and inexpensive to add video security for any business.

ADT hosted video service complements ADT’s monitored security services and ADT Pulse for home users.

Best Home Monitoring Services, from ADT to SimpliSafe

Home Monitoring services provide an added layer of safety to your home, an extra comfort that someone is looking after your home when you are not there. There are lots of home monitoring service providers. Out of the lot, how do you find the best Home Monitoring services, in cost and features?