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In today’s competitive marketplace, many heating and cooling contracting businesses are performing work outside of the typical HVAC umbrella. 

Every homeowner’s house is his or her castle, and each homeowner elects just how to control his or her indoor environment. 

Honeywell Intl. Inc., manufacturer of the original round thermostat and long-standing manufacturer of both nonprogrammable and programmable thermostats, recently challenged certain advertising claims made by newcomer and rival Nest Labs Inc., which first began selling its Nest Learning Thermostat™ in late 2011. 

The E3 Series universal thermostats take five minutes to install and have real-life programming and simple operation, said the company. 

Over three years of research and development went into the creation of Lennox Intl.’s icomfort Wi-Fi™ thermostat. 

Annual shipments of remote access and control thermostats that allow consumers to adjust temperature in homes via a smartphone or tablet will quadruple by 2017, as consumers aim for increased comfort in their residences, according to a report from IMS Research, now part of IHS.

 Nest Labs Inc. acquires new company.

The Coleman® Echelon™ zoning Communicating Control communicates with all key components in a home comfort system, providing total system integration that ensures maximum system efficiency and homeowner comfort, the company said.