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Advertisement Amazon announced Thursday, Feb. 23, that the number of Amazon Echo skills has reached 10,000, which comes just a year and a half after the retail company released its Alexa voice assistant to developers, enabling them to craft their own spin on skills. With that Kit, Alexa and the hardware it’s available in — Echo, Dot, …
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The number of connected devices is growing exponentially. In fact, current estimates from IDC Research predict IoT spending will reach $1.29 trillion by 2020. Although many of these are consumer devices (such as Fitbits or smartphones), the presence of IoT devices in industrial settings is skyrocketing as well, with manufacturing forecasted to be the industry making the …
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By Julie Jacobson · February 24, 2017 Editor’s Note: The following story first ran in Security Sales & Integration’s sister publication CE Pro. The proposed merger of two giant SHaaS (smart home as a service) providers, Icontrol Networks and Alarm.com (Nasdaq: ALRM), may be halted if Honeywell Security has its way. Honeywell, another leader in …
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An Amazon Echo device.Amazon Amazon is continuing to resist efforts from US police to obtain Alexa data that could prove to be useful for an ongoing murder investigation, Associated Press reports. The Seattle tech giant filed a motion last Friday — its first formal legal response on the issue — to prevent prosecutors in Arkansas …
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The way FinTech adoption goes, it’s usually the consumers who first jump onto a new technology, and corporate users typically follow later. Mike Carter, chief marketing officer for D3 Banking, doesn’t expect that pattern to be disrupted when it comes to the adoption of voice recognition technology, like Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant. But, he said, …
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Leaders of the global internet of things market in 2015 included the likes of Google, Inc., Apple, Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon, Intel Corp, and Cisco Systems. As seen, a lot of the key players in the global internet of things market are predominantly from consumer electronics or ICT fields, and a majority of the market …
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Tech Alexa has reached an impressive 10,000 skills but it is still not allowed to stand as witness to a crime. (Photo : Alexa Skills/YouTube) Alexa, the AI from Amazon has reached the 10,000 mark of acquired skills, an astounding feat by all means. Interestingly, though, the ability to stand trial as a witness for …
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Smart homes Putting your home to work for you Imagine coming home from a long day’s work and you open the door, and the lights immediately turn on a shade past dim – just the way you like it. It’s 8:00 pm by the time you freshen up and as you sit down in the …
Merchant apps are constantly changing to meet omnichannel needs and to keep up with the proliferation of connected devices, requiring payment technology gateways to find new ways to address the evolution without creating friction. When PayPal’s Braintree recently informed app developers and their merchant clients that a new version of its Drop-in mobile payment UI …
To win the Internet of Things race, mobile pay developers focus on the user interface Read More »