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At CES, New Alexa-Powered Products Are Everywhere: Here's The Full List

In 2016, the general public developed an appetite for controlling their technology with voice commands. Amazon has emerged as the central player in this movement after it released its voice-controlled home assistant Echo. And the tech giant made another very smart strategic move: It made the brains behind Echo—the natural-language AI Alexa— available to other […]

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CES 2017: As with Big Data, Human Factor Plays a Part in IoT

LAS VEGAS — Agencies wanting to exploit the Internet of Things face many of the same issues they confront in creating open data portals, dashboards and visualizations, industry members said Thursday during a 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) panel discussion on “Delivering the Internet of Everything.” The problem, said Jason Collins, vice president of IoT marketing at Nokia,

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Amazon Alexa VP throws subtle shade at Google Home exec over Echo's lead

(From left) August Home CEO Jason Johnson, SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson, Mike George, VP of Amazon Alexa, and Rishi Chandra, VP of Product Development for Google Home. (GeekWire Photo by Monica Nickelsburg) LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s early lead with the Echo smart speaker left competitors, like Google, playing catch up. But a few months ago

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