Amazon and Google are going head-to-head to be your personal butler. Amazon introduced the Echo in 2014: a digital assistant that connects to the internet and responds to your voice to do thousands of different tasks. This May, Google unveiled the upcoming Home at their annual I/O conference: a rival to the Echo, built off […]
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Room with a voice: Starwood incorporating Siri at Aloft hotels Hospitality firm is piloting the voice-activated rooms in Boston and Santa Clara, Calif. August 30, 2016 10:14AM Aloft Santa Clara, one of the test properties for Project Jetson (credit: Starwood Hotels and Resorts) and Siri on the iPhone “Hey Siri, which massive hotel company is
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Convenience. Better security. Energy savings. Healthcare and fitness tracking. The internet of things is already providing these benefits to those who have invested in wearables, connected security systems, thermostats, lighting and a growing number of commercial applications. According to Juniper Research, over 38 billion connected devices will be in use three years from now. By
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A recent survey of Automation World readers was conducted to gauge perceptions about several aspects related to automation buying preferences and behaviors. The survey was conducted for our advertising clients, but the results revealed some interesting insights for our end-user readers as well. The findings most relevant to our audience relate to some notable response
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Daniel Ayoub, director of technical sales at Jail, shows off a smart wine bottle, one of the new Internet of Things ideas under development, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, at the Jabil Blue Sky Center in San Jose, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) SAN JOSE — A Silicon Valley startup is getting some financial muscle
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today announced the list of inaugural members who are being awarded the CSA Research Fellow designation. The designation is the highest honor and distinction that can be given to a CSA research volunteer who has demonstrated significant contributions to CSA research. The CSA Research
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By Agnieszka Flak | MILAN Surging data traffic and a push to merge capital-intensive networks to cut costs are swelling the value of Europe’s mobile infrastructure as it is gradually split away from the telecom industry that built it. The companies that operate cellular phone masts make most of their money renting antenna space to
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When talking hotel rooms are no longer a thing of the future, what’s left to anticipate? A lot. Last Wednesday, Starwood’s tech-centric hotel brand, Aloft, unveiled its top-secret “Project Jetson.” Now, for the first time, hotel guests can talk to their rooms, thanks to the help of Apple’s ubiquitous voice-powered assistant, Siri. “Siri, raise the
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After successfully funding and launching their original smartwatch Omate have once again taken to Kickstarter to raise funds to start shipping their next smartwatch which is now available as a Limited Edition exclusively via Indiegogo. Check out the promotional video below to learn more about what you can expect from the Limited Edition Omate Rise
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While it seems that smartwatch makers have settled down in camps around a very few wearable platforms, like Android Wear, Apple watchOS, Tizen, and Pebble OS, Omate remains firm in its uniqueness. It is perhaps the only remaining smartwatch maker that runs a “full” Android version on its smartwatches. Not Android Wear but Android. It
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