Technology News from the World's Most Influential Companies
If you are shopping online or in local retail stores for an ear monitor, there are some things that you will need to know before you begin your search for in-ear monitors, on-ear monitors and over-ear monitors. If you are a drummer or a professional singer, this is absolutely essential. And because there are so…
The familiar voice of Amazon’s digital assistant on Echo and other devices, Alexa, may soon be heard encouraging you to buy one product over another. Apparently, Amazon is in talks with Procter & Gamble and Clorox for voice ads on Alexa-powered devices. There’s been very little in the way of monetization attempts with voice-operated gadgetry…
Wal-Mart, the number one retailer in the world, has decided to drop “Stores” from its name and drop the hyphen as well. The retail giant announced Wednesday that it will shorten its legal name to Walmart Inc. from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., indicating its refreshed growth strategy and market positioning. It is not unusual to see…
Google is confident that augmented reality will be within reach of “hundreds of millions” of Android device users in 2018. During a talk at the Web Summit tech conference in Portugal (Lisbon) Tuesday, Google’s VP of business and operations for virtual reality said: “There will be hundreds of millions of phones that will be AR…
Four days ago, on October 4, Google hosted a hardware event to unveil eight new products. What are these products, what’s driving them and how does it help Google’s parent company, Alphabet, further mature its presence in the hardware segment? New Products “Made by Google” Since last year, Alphabet has been touting the “Made by…
What is a Flagship Smartphone? Everybody’s talking about 2017 flagship smartphones. But what exactly is a flagship device, and why is it called that? The origin of the word ‘flagship’ comes from the 1670s, when Navy warships carrying the Admiral, Vice-Admiral or Rear-Admiral used to fly special colors to distinguish them from other ships in…
Alexa, the personal assistant on Amazon devices like Echo and FireTV, comes equipped with a bunch of skills, like playing music, controlling home automation devices (to an extent), ordering products on Amazon.com and so on. The virtual assistant from Amazon is based in the cloud and getting better each day, moving into more and more…
Amazon’s latest hardware product, the Dash Wand, makes it extremely easy to add items to your Amazon shopping cart. Whenever you start to run low on something, just point the wand’s infrared beam at the barcode on the product and press the button, and Amazon Alexa will automatically add it to your shopping card. You…
Echo Show, the Alexa-enabled smart speaker with touchscreen launched by Amazon yesterday, has some great features, but there are also a couple of very cool accessories that you can buy along with your pre-order. First, the features: Amazon Echo Show Key Features: Available in black and white options, the Amazon Echo Show is essentially an…
Every year there is a barrage of smartphones released to the market, each with its own unique offering – a better camera, more processing power, greater battery life, more of this, more of that – you get the idea. But high-end smartphones aren’t cheap. A year ago, I owned an AT&T-locked Samsung Galaxy phone that…
Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus (S8+) devices are being shipped out worldwide this week, but very few people are aware that inside these devices lives a revolutionary technology from Amazon, one of the world’s largest online retail and technology companies. Amazon’s visual search technology is something that fans of the retail and tech…
ProductTesting.co.uk is offering free Google Pixel devices for those who are interested in doing a short product review and a video review for them. The offer is open for anyone over the age of 18 living in the United Kingdom, so if you live their or have friends or family residing in the UK, you…
Another “world’s first” from the house of LG: a super-thin “wallpaper” TV called LG OLED W that is so thin and light that it can attach to your wall just using magnets. LG’s LG Signature OLED W super-thin wallpaper model of television sets is the latest CES 2017 unveiling from the South Korean electronics giant. At…
Samsung has just introduced the refreshed Family Hub 2.0 refrigerators at CES 2017. Last year, its predecessor, the Family Hub 1.0, was released to much critical acclaim. The four models will now expand to no less than ten new Family Hub 2.0 options. At the unveiling, Byung-Sam Seo, President of Home Appliances at Samsung Electronics, said:…
The death of Victor Collins last November has ultimately led to authorities requesting Amazon for “electronic data in the form of audio recordings, transcribed words, text records and other data” from the Amazon Echo device found in the home of James Bates, where Victor Collins was found dead in a hot tub. But the matter…
