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homerouter Sales of smart home devices are expected to reach $1.4 billion by 2021, a 500 percent increase from the $90 million in 2016, according to new research from Ovum.  Ovum researchers Senior Analyst Francesco Radicanti and Senior Practice Leader Michael Philpott said in the still unreleased “Smart Home Devices” forecast report that sales will […]

Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co, the world’s third largest smartphone vendor by unit shipment (according to IDC), is said to be working on its own voice assistant. As stated by Bloomberg, the efforts of over 100 engineers at the Shenzhen offices in China are aimed squarely at Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant, “not

CLOSE What to do about all those set-top boxes piling up in the living room? Caavo wants to be the master box to run Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Amazon Fire and others. #TalkingTech. DANA POINT — Remember the universal remote control, the device that controls all of your various remotes? Now meet the universal box.

Bankers inclined to scoff about robo-advisors and the willingness of the typical consumer to put their financial eggs in such baskets had better examine their own purchasing habits. How often have you taken the recommendation of Amazon to add a particular book, tool, food, or other item to your order when you didn’t visit the

Antony Haynes has an apt warning for consumers: Any device that has the word “smart” associated with it “is hackable and trackable.” So in opting for smartphones, smart TVs, smart homes, smart watches, smart fitness trackers, smart cars or countless other products capable of being used like computers, consumers should know they are “inviting a third party

Right now, you can order a pizza, manage your to-do list and call an Uber on Amazon Echo and Google Home. The latest development from the smart speakers would give us yet another reason to leave our phones in our pocket. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon and Google are considering adding telephone functionality

– Right now, you can order a pizza, manage your to-do list and call an Uber on Amazon Echo and Google Home. The latest development from the smart speakers would give us yet another reason to leave our phones in our pocket. As Engadget reports citing The Wall Street Journal, Amazon and Google are considering