Tens of thousands of digital technology aficionados (last year there were 101,000) will stream to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to see the latest mobile gadgets and features. Smartphone sales have decreased overall during the last couple of years, and the devices are very similar across brands. The most exciting highlights aren’t the smartphones …
“Alexa’s responses are protected by the First Amendment” Amazon continues refusing to hand over Alexa data to law enforcement. While the company gives access to user’s personal information and purchase history, its personal assistant is where the tech giant is trying to resist law enforcement’s data access demands. Investigators just can’t catch Alexa In an Arkansas …
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On December 15, 1791, when the U.S. government passed the first amendment and guaranteed freedom of speech, legislators were not thinking about Alexa, Siri, Cortana, or Google Assistant. The question now is: Should they have been? Amazon Echo Dot People enjoy rights such as free speech in the United State and other countries around the world, and corporations …
Bluetooth a standard for short-range wireless communications between electronic devices… but the short range part of that may be a bit dated. The Bluetooth 5.0 standard was announced in December, and it offers up to 4 times the range and up to twice the speed. Now it looks like some of the first devices with Bluetooth …
Amazon’s artificial intelligence assistant, Alexa has partnered with UK technology and music company, Musicplode Media on its most recent and 10,000th skill. Alexa device owners can enable the ‘Beat the Intro’ skill via the Alexa app or by saying, “Alexa, enable Beat the Intro.” Then, simply ask Alexa to open Beat the Intro and start …
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According to a new study, 81 percent of U.S. healthcare organizations and 76 percent of global healthcare organizations will increase information security spending in 2017. The “2017 Thales Data Threat Report, Healthcare Edition” from cybersecurity technology and services vendor Thales and analyst firm 451 Research released the survey results at HIMSS17. U.S. government regulations such …
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While examining Reverb, AppleInsider determines Alexa in name only is no Alexa at all. The new app aims to bring Amazon’s personal assistant to the Mac, but in our tests it fell short. Alexa is Amazon’s equivalent of Siri and it – or she – lives in the company’s Echo and Dot devices. Now Reverb …
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by Alan D. Percy, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Dialogic I’m an IoT addict. There, I said it. That’s the first step of recovery, right? Thanks to a generous son, Christmas started a new obsession – controlling and connecting our home. It started with one Belkin WEMO light switch and an Amazon TAP. Before …
With this week being National Engineer’s Week (February 19-25), Business Insider listed the 43 most powerful female engineers in the US for 2017. Microsoft’s Peggy Johnson tops the list as the most powerful female engineer in the US. Johnson is Microsoft’s executive vice president of Business Development. Johnson and her team were responsible for Microsoft’s …
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The Internet of Things may be convenient, but there are also huge risks. Here’s what consumers and manufacturers need to know to stay safe. There will be more than 50 billion IoT (also known as “Internet of Things“) connected devices by the year 2020, according to a whitepaper by Cisco. Which means that IoT devices …