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2.9KVoice ActivationAmazon Echo Smart Speakers Outselling Google Home
As smart speakers surge in popularity, Amazon Echo is the clear leader, outselling Google Home by a wide margin, SlashGear reported on...
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1.9KEcosystemsOvercoming Voice’s Discovery Problem
There is no shortage of skills for users to choose from when talking to their voice assistants. Amazon ended 2018 with around...
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2.7KVoice ActivationGoogle’s Growing Global Challenge To Amazon’s Voice Dominance
On their shared home territory of the U.S. market, Amazon and Google have spent the last two years avidly racing for control...
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2.6KSecurity & FraudAmazon, Google Smart Speakers Could Be Breached By Hackers
Security researchers at SRLabs have discovered a new vulnerability that could leave Google and Amazon smart speakers exposed to hackers. “Through the...
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2.1KInnovationGoogle’s Plan To Make Its Assistant Ubiquitous And Invisible
The cool weather was slow to show up in some parts of the U.S. this year (although the pumpkin spice-flavored goods showed...
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2.0KAlexaThe New Alexa Experience: Upgraded Speakers, Wild Wearables And Celebrity Appearances
Another day, another tech event announcing the latest and greatest hitting the market this fall checked off the list. Apple and Amazon...
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2.7KAmazon InnovationsWhat Clues Can Last Year’s Results Offer For Amazon’s 2019 Alexa Event?
Amazon has always been a “go big or go home” kind of operation, and so when it rolled out a dozen or...
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2.7KAmazonAmazon Enters Health Device Race With Fitness Tracking Earbuds
Amazon is planning to introduce two new products: an even bigger Echo speaker with a subwoofer and wireless earbuds with fitness tracking...
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2.1KInternet of ThingsGoogle Knocked To Third Spot In Global Smart Speaker Sales
Google lost its second-place spot in smart speaker sales to Chinese tech company Baidu, whose only market is China, according to reports on...
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4.4KAppleApple Continues Price Cuts, Including For Smart Speakers
No one will ever confuse Apple for a discount retailer – it’s a chore to even imagine that – but the company...
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6.1KPayment MethodsSamsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction
For an increasingly growing share of connected consumers, contextual commerce is becoming a way of life – even if they aren’t exactly...
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3.0KAppleApple Music Likely Coming To Google Home Speakers
In a move that shows Apple’s softening stance on its software services, Apple Music could be coming to Google Home speakers, according...
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3.2KVoice ActivationSamsung Teases April Debut Of Galaxy Home Smart Speaker
After announcing its Galaxy Home smart speaker in 2018, Samsung Mobile CEO DJ Koh has reportedly indicated that the device would be...
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15.3KIntelligence of Things‘Alexa — Is My Data Secure On Connected Devices?’
By 2020, there will be an estimated 26 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-connected devices active around the world. As the IoT market...
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4.3KAmazonAmazon Dominates Smart Speaker Q4 Shipments
A new report shows that smart speaker sales are on the rise, with Amazon taking the top spot in shipments. Strategy Analytics...
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6.5KRetailThe Payments And Commerce Game Of The Super Bowl
For certain sports fans, it’s one of best times of the year, a weeks-long period of anticipation, anxiety and hope. That’s because...
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3.4KToday In DataToday In Data: The Transforming World Of 2019
The world of 2019 is quickly gearing up to become quite a different place than the year we just left behind. Rules...
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6.8KAlexaAlexa Now In More Than 100M Devices
Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services Dave Limp told The Verge that more than 100 million devices with Alexa integrated...
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6.6KSecurity & FraudInfoSec CTO: How To Improve The Privacy IQ Of Smart Devices
When it comes to the world of cybercrime touching the connected smart devices that consumers are increasingly using, it is easy to...
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4.7KAmazonAmazon’s Holiday Sales Foreshadow 2019 Retail Trends
Judging by its holiday performance and PYMNTS research, Amazon is well on its way to commanding more of consumers’ paychecks in 2019....
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5.6KArtificial IntelligenceAnalysts Say Siri Has Gotten Smarter, But Lags The Competition
Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, has made some major improvements in the last few months, CNBC reported. Gene Munster and Will Thompson, two...
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5.1KGoogleGoogle Hardware Poised To Make Billions By 2021
With products like smart home speakers, Nest cameras and well-reviewed Pixel phones, Google hardware is selling and thriving, according to a report...
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3.1KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Doesn’t Have A Lock On Smart Speakers
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest news about...
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4.0KAmazon TechnologyAmazon Sends Thousands Of Alexa Recordings To German User
A man in Germany was curious what Amazon’s Alexa had recorded in his home, so he contacted Amazon and asked to listen...
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3.8KAmazonAmazon Echo Goes On Backorder
Shoppers might have to wait until the New Year to get their hands on one of Amazon’s Echo smart speakers. Bloomberg reported...
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4.0KAppleApple HomePod Plans 2019 Chinese Debut
Apple’s HomePod wireless speaker is set to go on sale in China next year, beating Amazon and Google speaker offerings into the country....
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4.5KEcosystemsIs Voice The Glue Of The Google Ecosystem?
Five years ago, a voice-activated device was mostly something that existed in the realm of science fiction. Siri had been around for a...
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12.8KInternet of ThingsIoT Needs An Injection Of Trust — As Much As It Can Get, In Fact
It’s being built with every new car and truck on the road, every smart speaker sold this holiday season, every time a...
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3.9KAlexaPandora Premium Subscribers Can Now Stream Music Via Alexa Devices
Pandora, the music streaming service, is now enabling Pandora Premium subscribers to stream music through Amazon Echo devices and third-party speakers with...
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6.3KAmazonAmazon Previews Alexa-Hosted Skills For AWS
Amazon has announced the developer preview of Alexa-hosted skills for Amazon Web Services. In a blog post on Thursday (November 15), Amazon said...
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4.5KRetailFive Innovative Ways Consumers Shop In The Digital Age
In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever before. While brick-and-mortar stores are still popular with...
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8.0KRetailAdobe: Why Voice And Touch Retail Will Boost 2018 Holiday Sales
Consumers want to touch before they buy, and they want to talk when they purchase. Those promise to stand as two main...
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7.5KSubscriptionsSpotify Paid Subscriptions Jump 40 Pct YoY
Spotify’s paid members now number 87 million — a 40 percent year-over-year (YoY) increase from 2017. The music-streaming service announced in its...
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3.7KArtificial IntelligenceEcosystems: Google, Disney And The Power Of Parental Spend
There are some hit toys from the 1960s that were genuine classics – so much so that they are still with us today. This...
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6.2KNewsFive At Five: Walmart Ups Shipping And Returns Game
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest move by...
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4.8KAmazonAmazon Echo: America’s Most Popular Smart Speaker
A new survey says that the most popular smart speaker model in the U.S. is the Amazon Echo. According to Strategy Analytics’...
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5.1KArtificial IntelligenceAmazon Alexa’s Ability To Whisper Is Now Live In The U.S.
A couple of weeks after teasing Amazon Alexa’s ability to whisper back to voice commands, the feature is now live. According to...
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4.2KAmazon InnovationsAmazon Patent Enables Alexa To Detect Illness Via Voice
Amazon is trying to make Alexa, its voice-activated personal assistant, act as a doctor or nurse, detecting illness by a change in...
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5.9KArtificial IntelligenceIt’s Not Smart Tech If It’s Foolish
When English mountaineer George Mallory was asked in 1923 by The New York Times why he wanted to attempt to climb Mount Everest...
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3.4KAmazonAmazon Highlights New Alexa Skill Connections
Amazon announced Thursday (Oct. 4) the preview of skill connections for all current Alexa locales. In a blog post, the company said...
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6.6KEcosystemsThe Quickly And Quietly Growing World Of Voice-Assisted Health And Wellness
For most people, absently swiping through an Instagram feed, or flipping a light switch, or going to a doctor’s office don’t register...
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14.5KEcosystemsAmazon’s 20K Devices, And The Tightening Race For AI Dominance
When 2018 rang in, Alexa was compatible with just over 4,000 devices. A little bit past the halfway mark in 2018, Alexa’s...
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4.4KNewsFive At Five: Rakuten Takes On Amazon
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest plan to...
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4.1KInnovationBose Launches Smart Speakers With Alexa Built In
Bose, the home audio company, announced news on Tuesday (August 28) of the launch of its Bose® Home Speaker 500 for music...
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3.3KVoice ActivationGoogle To Intro Its Own Smart Speaker With Screen
Google is reportedly gearing up to launch a smart speaker with a display just in time for the holiday selling season. The...
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4.4KNewsFive At Five: Does Walmart Have A Secret Weapon?
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at today’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes discussion of an edge that...
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3.4KRetailChinese Smart Speaker Shipments Reach 16.8M
Smart speaker sales continue to grow at a record pace, and new data shows that China is now the leader in that...
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3.3KGoogleGoogle Closing In On Amazon’s Smart Speaker Lead
New research shows that Google gained ground on Amazon’s global smart speaker share for the second quarter of 2018. Strategy Analytics’ latest...
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3.2KAlexaAlexa Voice Interaction Comes To Apple iOS
To help users on iPhones and iPads use Alexa, Amazon has unveiled voice interaction for the popular voice assistant on its iOS...
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3.8KToday In DataToday In Data: So Many Ways To Buy, So Little Time
Consumers love choice and are always ready to embrace the next big thing. The explosion of voice assistants and the smart speaker market are...
