Credit: Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg / Getty Images Without question, the phrase heard most around this year’s CES is “It works with Alexa.” (Second place: “Where do I go to pick up my Uber?”) Amazon’s personal digital assistant software, till now found only in its line of Echo wireless speakers, is the belle of […]
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The fortune of Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, rose by $3.8 billion in the first week of 2017. (Photo: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg) The new year has just begun, and Jeff Bezos’ net worth is already up almost $4 billion. Coming off a difficult three-month stretch in which Amazon lost more than 10% of its
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LAS VEGAS—”Voyeur” is a French word, but surely it means the same thing in France as it does here, right? No respectable business would want to be associated with it, I always assumed, least of all a postal service. But as I trudged up a flight of stairs at CES here on Friday afternoon with
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Cor is compatible with Amazon Echo, Apple HomeKit and other popular connected home systems Las Vegas: Carrier has launched an line of thermostats compatible with Amazon Echo, Apple HomeKit and other popular connected home systems. The new thermostats are compatible with Amazon Echo, Apple HomeKit and other popular connected home systems. Matthew Pine, vice-president for
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While Amazon might have had an early start, it does not put Google out of the race Published By: Ken Bock on January 7, 2017 07:54 am EST Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) surprised investors as its digital assistant Alexa appeared everywhere at the Consumers Electronic Show held earlier this week in Las Vegas. Alexa also made
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Internet of Things-based botnets are becoming a major concern to security researchers around the globe. Late last year, DynDNS was crippled due to such a major botnet attack, which affected the availability of popular online services. Norton, known for their antivirus software, has unveiled the Norton Core router. This new piece of hardware should be capable
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?During Huawei’s press event at the CES 2017 in Las Vegas, the company revealed that its latest Mate 9 smartphone would be available in the US starting Jan. 6. The smartphone will come with a re-installed voice-interactive app with access to Amazon’s Alexa. With Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant installed, users will be able to automate
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Technology has seeped into our lives quite seamlessly. From desktops, handsets to the smart locks, smart lights, the innovations continue to amaze us. The one idea that has been trending for a while is that of a “smart home”. It’s just not the tech world that wants it to happen, it’s even the people who
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In 2016, the general public developed an appetite for controlling their technology with voice commands. Amazon has emerged as the central player in this movement after it released its voice-controlled home assistant Echo. And the tech giant made another very smart strategic move: It made the brains behind Echo—the natural-language AI Alexa— available to other
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LAS VEGAS — Agencies wanting to exploit the Internet of Things face many of the same issues they confront in creating open data portals, dashboards and visualizations, industry members said Thursday during a 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) panel discussion on “Delivering the Internet of Everything.” The problem, said Jason Collins, vice president of IoT marketing at Nokia,
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