According to Juniper Research, a Smart Home as one that is designed to deliver or distribute a number of digital services inside and outside the home, through a range of networked devices. Since the rise of the smartphone, the term ‘smart’ is used in the loosest possible manner in the current marketing landscape, where ‘smart’

Two technological giants, Apple and Amazon, are slugging it out over the future of the smart home, the latest new fad. The Apple smart home package is the Apple HomeKit while the latest kid on the block, Amazon, is carrying on with two products: the echo speakers and the AI assistant, Alexa. Amazon’s popular voice-controlled

Dive Brief: Amazon took a hit on Wall Street late Thursday when it reported fourth quarter sales of $43.7 billion, up 22% year-over-year but missing the Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S consensus expectation for $44.68 billion. While Amazon posted Q4 net income of $749 million and earnings came in at $1.54 per share, compared to an expectation

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If you own an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, or Amazon Tap then you’ve definitely used the Amazon Alexa app. You need this free app (available in the Apple App Store, Google Play store, and Amazon Appstore) to set up your device. But are you getting the most out of this app? Alexa has over 7,000

When I want to stream locally stored media to my television, I turn to Plex. The popular service has apps for many devices such as Xbox One and Apple TV — both of which I own. Heck, even my Samsung 4K TV has Plex support built in. Ultimately, the value of the service is found

Talk to me. CNET Amazon’s Alexa was showered with attention at last month’s CES tech show in Las Vegas, as dozens of companies invited the voice assistant to live in their cars, washing machines and set-top boxes. Yet, behind all that luster is a somewhat uncomfortable question about Amazon’s 2-year-old artificial intelligence platform: Does Alexa

Most people are getting just a trickle of the high-speed Internet they are paying for. And most people have only themselves to blame. How do I know this? Even though I’m a tech columnist, until this month, I was most people. Over the past four years, I’ve jerry-rigged a Wi-Fi setup in my home to