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What is Amazon Echo Dot? Amazon Echo Dot is a smart home speaker unveiled by Amazon in March 2016. It connects to your home Wi-Fi and to the Alexa app on your smartphone or tablet. Both iOS and Android versions of the Alexa app are available in the respective app stores. Echo Dot leverages the…
The smart virtual assistant from the house of Amazon – Alexa – is getting bigger by the month. As of September 1, 2018, Alexa Skills number no less than 50,000. That’s up from 40,000 this past May. 10,000 skills in 4 months. Not a bad feat. Even more impressive is the fact that there were…
The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES 2018, this year is, as always, one of the most highly anticipated tech shows in the world. This is where tech companies showcase their up and coming products for 2018, and pretty much guide consumer spending on tech products for the year. What will it be this year? Let’s…
As the holiday season approaches, every major retailer in the country wants to show a little love to its adored consumers. More accurately, they want out money. Amazon, Walmart, Costco, Target and almost every retailer of size has already started announcing Black Friday deals. Just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock or spending…
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today that it is creating more than 120,000 positions this holiday season across 33 states in the US, which is exactly the same number of holiday season hires the company made last year. “We prepare year round for the holidays and we’re excited to hire for over 120,000 positions this season to help delight…
If Google has any eyes on the smart home market, they’d better re-think their strategy, at least where smart speakers are concerned. Amazon now has a total of 8 Echo products that, in various combinations, pretty much achieve everything that a smart speaker in a smart home should, including offer a visual experience. The three…
Microsoft and Amazon are going to join hands and pair up their respective digital personal assistants, Cortana and Alexa, opening up a wide array of options for users – a smarter move than competing with each other. Microsoft’s personal assistant, Cortana, was announced a few years ago as a specialist at organizing your life on Windows…
Amazon just announced that it had sold over seven times the number of Amazon Echo and related devices during Prime Day 2017 that it did on the last such online event. At least for now, we can safely say that Amazon is untouchable in the smart speaker space. With second-placed Google Home already holding a significantly…
A new study by 360i, which involved asking both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa a set of 3,000 questions, showed that Google’s virtual assistant was six times smarter than Amazon’s voice assistant. GA was able to answer an impressive 72 percent of the questions posed, while Alexa only managed a modest 13 percent. On the…
Amazon’s senior vice president of devices, David Limp, says that the company is open to talking with Apple and Google to put their respective smart assistants on the Amazon Echo, alongside Amazon Alexa. “We’re open to that,” Limp said, according to CNET. “If Apple or Google want to come call, my phone number is out…
We might soon see an Amazon Echo with touchscreen hardware, according to a leaked low-resolution photo dug up from Amazon’s servers by AFTVNews. And it could be coming as early as this month, says the source. The new Amazon Echo will be Amazon’s flagship device for this year, and will come with a 7-inch touchscreen and better-sounding…
Amazon has just released a weird product called Amazon Echo Look. Obviously named after Amazon Echo devices, the Look has a camera an an AI brain that provides a “Style Check” service. It’s essentially a device that’s intended to be part of your wardrobe. It captures full-length photos and short videos with blurred backgrounds, and…
Whenever a major tech company patents some type of new technology, reports flood in about how it will kill this product or that product from a competitor. This time, it’s Apple that has had a patent published about a possible “speaker dock”, and the reports are already coming in about a possible Amazon Echo-killer. What is…
Now that Amazon Echo has reached more than 8 million homes (at least), we can move past discussing how good the Echo is as a product, and start looking at how the AI powered smart speaker will evolve in the future. Specifically, what does Amazon want from the Echo? Amazon once again caught the tech giants napping,…
In many ways Google Assistant is far superior to Amazon Alexa. Although both are essentially AI-based smart voice assistants, each has a specific strength. For example, Assistant has the support of Google’s powerful search engine and ecosystem of services, while Alexa has the massive Amazon retail catalog to tap into, and the ability to control…
