Be amazed by the Amazon Tap Amazon’s increasingly famous digital assistant, Alexa, is so in-demand these days that you can even find her in a number of non-Amazon products. Originally from the company’s first-ever venture into the world of smart speakers, Alexa has come a long way from being just a plus factor in one …
With Amazon Echo and Alexa, you have always been able to purchase basic things like paper towel or toilet paper. However, last week the company added the ability to buy a lot more (millions of products) just by speaking to it. This applies to all three Echo devices as well as the Fire TV. One …
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It’s IoT Week at SitePoint! All week we’re publishing articles focused on the intersection of the internet and the physical world, so keep checking the IoT tag for the latest updates. The world wide web has continuously developed and morphed throughout its 27-year history. How we display and style content has gone through various phases …
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(Photo : JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) The new Android Wear devices from Google has been given the codenames Angelfish and Swordfish. A new rumor has surfaced, and it claims that Google is planning on building two of its own Android Wear smartwatches which will be released sometime after HTC’s Nexus handsets are announced. One of Google’s …
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If you believe the posts you read, the days of human salespeople are numbered. “Buyers do their own research on the internet.” “A.I. chatbots will eat salespeople for breakfast.” This might turn out to be the case for some types of consumer products, but it’s certainly not true when it comes to buying complex products …
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Facebook announced a pretty radical change to chatbots. Instead of improving the A.I. or adding better natural language processing, the social networking giant has provided a way for chatbot developers to make things easier on users. At the same time, the Facebook Messenger platform update announced last Friday adds “quick replies” and other buttons to …
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S. Somasegar Crunch Network Contributor S. Somasegar is a venture partner at Madrona Venture Group and the former head of Microsoft’s Developer Division. More posts by this contributor: How to join the network You can hardly talk to a technology executive or developer today without talking about artificial intelligence, machine learning or bots. Madrona recently …
Amazon’s Prime Day is less than week away now, but the discounts have begun in the form of Countdown Deal. The biggest savings, of course, are reserved for next Tuesday, July 12, when more than 100,000 items will go on sale throughout the day. But Alexa — the personality and voice of Amazon Echo — …
With more voice-based ordering capabilities, Amazon Echo digital assistant users can simply tell the device what products they want shipped. Amazon.com Inc. continues to lessen the need for a consumer to look at a screen to place an order. With the latest round of updates for its Echo digital assistant device, Amazon has enabled Echo …
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Changes in browsing behavior, preferences for content consumption, and adoption of voice search have put content creation at the top of most marketers’ lists this year. It not only improves customer engagement, but provides a lead generation tool. The biggest challenge is ensuring that content lands on the correct page. Content creators looking for a …
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