It’s all starting to come together. Project Evo and Windows 10 on ARM are two very important projects that help lay the foundations for Home Hub, Microsoft’s up and coming Windows 10 feature that aims to make Windows 10 PCs the center of your home. We recently blew the lid off everything Microsoft has planned […]
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Image: Radomir Rezny, Getty Images, iStock In a first for the hotel industry, Wynn Las Vegas is taking a gamble with the Amazon Echo smart speaker and equipping 4,748 hotel rooms with the hands-free natural language processing device. Wynn began deploying the devices in suites this month, and it will be available in all guest
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One of this year’s most popular tech gifts: · Amazon Echo, the Wi-Fi Connected Speaker, is a hands-free, voice-controlled speaker that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, and more. · Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and now the AT&T Send Message skill.
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Column inches in newspapers and on tech blogs may still outnumber the devices in the average consumer’s home but 2017 could be the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) truly becomes a thing. According to Juniper Research, by 2021, the number of connected devices, sensors and activators in use will total 46 billion, that’s
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Amid a sea of product choices from Google, Roku, Amazon and Apple alongside a surge in available OTT content, about 43% of U.S. Internet homes will own at least one streaming media player by the end of 2019, NPD Connected Intelligence predicted in its new Connected home Forecast. By that time, NPD expects there to
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If you’ve been itching to talk to your Google Home about current events, travel, and pizza, you’re in luck. The voice-activated speaker just added nearly three dozen new services that will expand its knowledge of what happening in your house and the world. Earlier this week, Google Home gained the ability to play Netflix shows
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Popular Posts: Recent Posts: Quick: Which tech company would be your pick to pile on the connected home speaker bandwagon? With the surprise success of the Alexa-powered Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Echo, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) joined the fray with Google Home. The spotlight was then on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), but Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) unexpectedly beat Apple
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Telstra has announced that Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (NASDAQ:ERIC)’s outgoing chief strategy officer for South East-Asia and Oceania Hakan Eriksson will be joining the telco as its new chief technology officer. Prior to his most recent post as regional CSO, Eriksson was Ericsson’s Australia and New Zealand CEO for four years following a nine-year stint
Ordering a pizza has never been easier. Now all hungry patrons have to do is merely mouth phrases such as “Alexa, open Pizza Hut” or “Alexa, ask Pizza Hut for a pizza” to place an order. A request to “ask Pizza Hut” (or “open,” “tell,” or “use”) will enable the skill — that is, Alexa’s built-in
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Dive Brief: The Interactive Advertising Bureau released a study called “The Internet of Things” that found 65% of respondents who own an IoT device are willing to receive ads on those devices’ screens, as reported in an organization press release. Almost two-thirds (62%) of U.S. consumers now own an IoT device such as a connected
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