Amazon continues to add little conveniences to its Alexa virtual assistant, and now you can place orders for select items through your Echo or other Alexa-enabled product. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can place an order on items like cloths and shoes using only your voice. From TechCrunch: Users with Amazon Echo, Echo …
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We told you the other day how Alexa is getting smarter; now its shopping skills are off the chart. According to Amazon, customers can now order tens of millions of Prime-eligible items by voice through its personal digital assistant. The cloud-based voice service had previously been limited to reorders and a pre-selected pool of recommended products under …
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Online News Sites Get 80% of Traffic from Facebook and Google (Business Insider)Facebook is now the number-one source of referrals to news sites, according to January-February 2016 data from Parse.ly, a digital media analytics provider. Google is right behind it, and the two of them together …
It’s your nighttime routine: You drop your phone onto the nightstand charging pad, and it asks about your day. You tell it, talking to the virtual personal assistant just like you’d talk to a friend. And why not? Your phone’s artificial intelligence knows you almost as well as you know yourself (maybe even better). So …
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Android smartwatch developer Snapkeys has launched its wearable keyboard for round-faced Android Wear smartwatches. The original square version launched back in March, but with Android Wear 2.0 and the rise of round smartwatches such as the Casio Outdoor Smartwatch and Huawei Watch, Snapkeys has wasted no time in opening up to the whole market. Using …
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Posted on July 1, 2016 Alexa, the voice-activated ecosystem from Amazon that allows consumers to engage with devices in a natural, seamless manner, represents the cutting edge of integrated technology. While Alexa was originally introduced via Amazon’s Echo device, it’s cloud-based, meaning integration limitations are essentially nonexistent when paired with other IoT solutions. It was …
Image Source: Getty Images After decades of consistent growth, cord-cutting looks to be the new normal in the cable industry, with companies whittling away subscribers to a quarterly drumbeat. The rise of streaming offerings like Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Prime Video, and skinny bundles from Dish Network and others has formed a new cohort of high-quality alternatives …
A fresh beta update just started rolling out for the Google app, popping the version number up to 6.1. There aren’t many immediately obvious changes with this release, but it does contain a switch that will allow users to turn off trending searches in their area. But if you’re looking for some potentially exciting new …
Every top tech company has announced its interest in conversation as a way to interact with computers this year. Microsoft announced its Bot Framework, Facebook opened Messenger to developers, Google announced Allo, and Amazon keeps expanding Alexa. Until recently, one tech giant was missing: Apple. At their WWDC conference, Apple finally announced its entry into the conversational …
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| | Share 5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization Self-service IT has been a major trend in IT circles for quite some time now, but now virtual assistants are about to transform the way IT services are delivered in a way most IT organizations never imagined. This week IPsoft previewed an Apollo …
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