The Google TV app improves on that by letting you control your TV directly from your phone. It connects over Wi-Fi and turns your smartphone into a full-fledged remote for your TV. You can use it to ...

With the Peel Remote App or Peel Smart Remote application, you can convert your Android smartphone or tablet into a universal remote for your television and home theater system. This is made possible ...

Any avid TV or movie watcher is probably always looking for a new way to engage and interact with their digital content. Whether you are using an Android TV device, a Smart TV, cable or any other form ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peel has been working closely with mobile phone makers like Samsung and HTC, getting them to add infrared sensors capable of ...

Remember the days before smartphones, when television remotes were bulky devices that burned through batteries with a vengeance? Universal remotes were a lifesaver — though huge, they worked with ...

Does it make sense to use your Apple Watch as a remote control for your media devices? Smart remote maker Peel thinks so, having just launched a universal remote control application for the Apple ...

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Matt McRae is fired up about remote controls. Or, more specifically, about getting rid of them. McRae is the ...