At Amazon’s Web Services conference re:Invent this week, the retail giant announced it is teaming up with Intel for a smart speaker reference design with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to help with tasks. The device is meant to help other companies make their own gadgets using Amazon’s voice tech and Intel’s platform. Developers will be able to […]
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One of surprising successes in recent times is the Amazon Echo, a speaker with Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa built into it. The device has been received pretty well and so far it seems that many users are reacting positively to it, so much so that it has since spawned various devices like the Amazon Tap
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In the race to win clients in the highly competitive cloud computing market, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken to transporting client data in high-tech tractor trailers. AWS recently introduced its data-on-wheels platform with the appropriate yuletide moniker of Snowmobile. ZDNet covered the recent launch of the data truck by AWS CEO Andy Jassy. He
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In April, President Obama officially formed the The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity to examine the country’s electronic vulnerabilities in the wake of high-profile hacks like that of the Office of Personnel Management in 2015. Today that commission finally wrapped up its duties and delivered a comprehensive report to the President (and the public) identifying
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Amazon wants Alexa to be in your home, and it wants Alexa to be the digital voice assistant that takes care of the majority of your IoT needs, but more to the point it wants Alexa to simply offer up new and meaningful functionality to consumers for smart, connected home use. Earlier this week, Amazon
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New ‘Internet of Things’ Class to Cover Rapidly Expanding Technology A new spring semester course offering at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) will provide students with an overview of the rapid changes happening in business and technology because of the proliferation of new devices connected to the Internet. Christopher Sedore The class, titled “Digital
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Today’s collection of what’s hot and happening includes news tidbits from Tata, ShoreTel, Cisco, Atlassian, Dialpad, Voss, and Toshiba. After a well-deserved break for the Thanksgiving holiday, the No Jitter Roll is back in action to catch you up on all the enterprise communications news you may have missed while you were passing the mashed
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News Amazon Cloud Courts Mobile Developers at re:Invent 2016 By David Ramel 12/02/2016 If you’re overwhelmed by the vast amount of application development news emanating from this week’s re:Invent conference by Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), here’s a roundup of the items especially relevant to mobile coders. AWS Mobile HubThe company announced enhancements to AWS
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The tech giants are coming together to ‘extend natural language capabilities to consumers everywhere.’ From Nest Learning Thermostat to August Smart Lock, there are already loads of gadgets on the market that can make your home a little smarter. Now, two tech giants — Amazon and Intel — are coming together to “advance the Smart
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For the past few months, a number of Microsoft watchers have been predicting and hoping (incorrectly) that Microsoft was ready to roll out a competitor to Amazon’s Echo and Google Home. A discovery by Microsoft sleuth The Walking Cat, a k a @h0x0d, of something called “Home Hub” further fueled this rumor. However, as Walking
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