Amazon’s Echo speakers have a ton of smart capabilities, but until recently, playing music from any service other than Prime Music required telling the device which service to use each time. Now, users may have noticed an option to set Pandora or Spotify as its default music player. If you have one of the Alexa-connected …
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The folks at Amazon are clearly attempting to entice you into the dangerous world of shopping with voice commands. They’re doing Alexa-exclusive deals for customers who shop through the company’s Echo, Echo Dot and Tap speakers, starting today until July 12th. The team is also adding more items to the list (including gadgets and smart …
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You can now have your Amazon Echo default to Spotify as your music library or Pandora as your station service instead of Prime Music for either. You might like Amazon’s Echo, and even Amazon Prime, but that doesn’t mean that you’re a fan of all of Amazon’s services. Perhaps you’ve been a big Spotify or …
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Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo speaker has long been able to pull streaming music from a number of services, but now Amazon is allowing users to set their Spotify account as the default. The new functionality, confirmed by Spotify – one of the streaming options with Echo support – means that no longer do users have to …
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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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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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App puts Alexa into palm of your hand. The unexpected success of the Amazon Echo has already prompted Google and Apple to up their voice-recognition device priorities but Android users can now talk to Alexa through their smartphone. Toronto-based Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation (UCIC) has launched an app called Lexa that allows people to access the …
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