The folks at Amazon are clearly attempting to entice you into the dangerous world of shopping with voice commands. They’re doing Alexa-exclusive deals for customers who shop through the company’s Echo, Echo Dot and Tap speakers, starting today until July 12th. The team is also adding more items to the list (including gadgets and smart …
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When it comes to customer service, connected devices are driving the most value. That’s according to a new research report that identified the top technologies that will reshape customer service by 2021. The Internet of Things will enable brands to improve customer service efficiencies and create new opportunities for customer loyalty, according to the report …
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You can now have your Amazon Echo default to Spotify as your music library or Pandora as your station service instead of Prime Music for either. You might like Amazon’s Echo, and even Amazon Prime, but that doesn’t mean that you’re a fan of all of Amazon’s services. Perhaps you’ve been a big Spotify or …
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Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo speaker has long been able to pull streaming music from a number of services, but now Amazon is allowing users to set their Spotify account as the default. The new functionality, confirmed by Spotify – one of the streaming options with Echo support – means that no longer do users have to …
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Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is reportedly developing two Android Wear watches that will focus heavily on the Google Assistant, the company’s artificial intelligence offering. Citing an unnamed “reliable source,” Android Police said the watches, codenamed Angelfish and Swordfish, will be released after the launch of the next Nexus phones, likely in the next several months. One …
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Be amazed by the Amazon Tap Amazon’s increasingly famous digital assistant, Alexa, is so in-demand these days that you can even find her in a number of non-Amazon products. Originally from the company’s first-ever venture into the world of smart speakers, Alexa has come a long way from being just a plus factor in one …
With Amazon Echo and Alexa, you have always been able to purchase basic things like paper towel or toilet paper. However, last week the company added the ability to buy a lot more (millions of products) just by speaking to it. This applies to all three Echo devices as well as the Fire TV. One …
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It’s IoT Week at SitePoint! All week we’re publishing articles focused on the intersection of the internet and the physical world, so keep checking the IoT tag for the latest updates. The world wide web has continuously developed and morphed throughout its 27-year history. How we display and style content has gone through various phases …
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(Photo : JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) The new Android Wear devices from Google has been given the codenames Angelfish and Swordfish. A new rumor has surfaced, and it claims that Google is planning on building two of its own Android Wear smartwatches which will be released sometime after HTC’s Nexus handsets are announced. One of Google’s …
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If you believe the posts you read, the days of human salespeople are numbered. “Buyers do their own research on the internet.” “A.I. chatbots will eat salespeople for breakfast.” This might turn out to be the case for some types of consumer products, but it’s certainly not true when it comes to buying complex products …
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