CheckPoints, a mobile shopping app that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt over a month ago, has surpassed 100,000 downloads of its iPhone app.

The milestone is impressive considering that the app has only been available for one month. CheckPoints takes a more product centric approach to its shopping app. When you walk into a store, the app will show you featured products that you can scan with the

The home automation market is consolidating, as evidenced by a the merger today of iControl and UControl. Both offer home monitoring, security, and home healthcare products accessible through the Internet and mobile phones.

The value of the deal is not being disclosed, but Texas-based UControl will become a subsidiary of iControl and the name of the merged company will remain iControl