Photo Credit: Windows Central Last month, Google started shipping its Google Home smart speaker, which is direct rival to Amazon’s Echo speaker, and allows users to perform various tasks using just their voice commands. A recent report by Bloomberg has also claimed that Apple is working on a similar device that has already entered testing …
Image: Amazon There is a point where we will blankly stare at our Amazon Alexa devices and wish that it wasn’t so easy to order groceries and other retail goods. At that point, we’ll also lament the alternative — leaving the house and queuing behind strangers at the grocery store. There has got to be …
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by Wayne Manion — 9:16 AM on December 5, 2016 Until now, Microsoft has been relegated to bit player status in the emerging digital home assistant sector, with the lion’s share of attention going to Amazon’s Alexa software running on the Echo family of devices. Windows Central reports that Redmond is gearing up for a …
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I’m writing this post on my way home from the Amazon Web Service (AWS) re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, having spent a day in an analyst-only preview of all the news from the show. As I write this, the 30,000 or so attendees at the show are blissfully unaware of just how much is coming …
by Sam Dean – Dec. 05, 2016Comments (0) As 2016 draws to a close, some interesting predictions are arriving for what we’ll see on the technology and open source scenes next year. Here at OStatic, we have recieved several missives with specific predictions ranging from the growth of the Internet of Things to how cloud computing …
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Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Next Generation Development Platforms for Next Generation Developers The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the …
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Sensify Security – a company that delivers decentralized information security services for industrial & commercial IoT operations with centralized control, policy management & compliance – recently joined the The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of …
In response to the unexpected popularity of Amazon’s Alexa devices, Google felt compelled to develop Google Home. There have also been rumors about a stand-alone Apple Siri device. I’ve been waiting for a Microsoft response — apparently there already is one. It’s called HomeHub, which has reportedly been in the works for some time. This …
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If you got an Amazon Echo or Google Home voice assistant, welcome to a life of luxurious convenience. You’ll be asking for the weather, the news, and your favorite songs without having to poke around on your phone. You’ll be turning off lights and requesting videos from bed. The world is yours. But you know …
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has now unveiled an Expedia skill for its Amazon Alexa service. This means that owners of Alexa-enabled devices, such as the Amazon Echo, Tap, and Dot, can now use their smart-speakers for real-time travel updates. Thanks to the Bluetooth speakers’ voice-recognition capabilities, these devices have proven to be a vital asset for the company …
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