Today’s collection of what’s hot and happening includes news tidbits from Tata, ShoreTel, Cisco, Atlassian, Dialpad, Voss, and Toshiba. After a well-deserved break for the Thanksgiving holiday, the No Jitter Roll is back in action to catch you up on all the enterprise communications news you may have missed while you were passing the mashed […]
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News Amazon Cloud Courts Mobile Developers at re:Invent 2016 By David Ramel 12/02/2016 If you’re overwhelmed by the vast amount of application development news emanating from this week’s re:Invent conference by Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), here’s a roundup of the items especially relevant to mobile coders. AWS Mobile HubThe company announced enhancements to AWS
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The tech giants are coming together to ‘extend natural language capabilities to consumers everywhere.’ From Nest Learning Thermostat to August Smart Lock, there are already loads of gadgets on the market that can make your home a little smarter. Now, two tech giants — Amazon and Intel — are coming together to “advance the Smart
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For the past few months, a number of Microsoft watchers have been predicting and hoping (incorrectly) that Microsoft was ready to roll out a competitor to Amazon’s Echo and Google Home. A discovery by Microsoft sleuth The Walking Cat, a k a @h0x0d, of something called “Home Hub” further fueled this rumor. However, as Walking
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Over the past few months, there’s been a couple of rumors regarding Microsoft’s “HomeHub.” According to rumors, the software giant built a Cortana-powered device for your kitchen, similar to Amazon’s Echo speaker and Google’s Home device. We also reported about Microsoft’s Home Hub recently, but details regarding the product have been pretty scarce so far.
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Google Home and Amazon Echo: voice-activated assistants making life easier and cozier for families everywhere (ahem, say those heart-warming commercials with fathers carrying sleeping children into a house smart enough to unlock doors and dim lights, not-so-subtly implying that smart home devices let you focus on ‘what really matters’). This is the stuff advertising campaigns
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Microsoft’s connected home ambitions with Home Hub lay far beyond just competing with Amazon and Google. Rumors regarding a new Windows 10 feature called “Home Hub” have been making the rounds on the internet recently. At first, it was thought that Home Hub would be some sort of Amazon Echo competitor, and although that’s not
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Microsoft’s connected home ambitions with Home Hub lay far beyond just competing with Amazon and Google. Rumors regarding a new Windows 10 feature called “Home Hub” have been making the rounds on the internet recently. At first, it was thought that Home Hub would be some sort of Amazon Echo competitor, and although that’s not
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Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images At this week’s Amazon Web Services conference re:Invent, the online retailer revealed two smart home initiatives that are getting a big hand from Intel. First, Intel built a reference design for a smart speaker that employs the Alexa virtual assistant to help with tasks. The device is meant to encourage
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