Amazon Alexa, the voice-controlled artificial intelligence behind the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot in-home speakers, has amassed a whopping 10,000 skills. Skills are features, tool, actions, or abilities enabled by developers. As such, Amazon is saying a big Thank You! to its supporters.  “We’ve been blown away by the innovation and activity in the Alexa […]

“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

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

 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

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