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360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home

360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home
360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home
June 30, 2017  |  Retail

360i asked Amazon Alexa and Google Home 3,000 questions and found out that the Home is (sometimes) smarter than Alexa — it all depends what...

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Amazon Positions Itself For Online Grocery Dominance With Dash Wand
Amazon Positions Itself For Online Grocery Dominance With Dash Wand
June 28, 2017  |  Retail

Amazon’s new voice-activated grocery assistant is practically magic, and you don’t even have to go to Diagon Alley to get it. The company has added...

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Chatbot Tracker: Speaking To Cars Via Smartcar
Chatbot Tracker: Speaking To Cars Via Smartcar
June 05, 2017  |  Chatbots

Back in the ‘80s, Knight Rider was a television show that featured not only the great David Hasselhoff but also his trusty sidekick (and car),...

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Andy Rubin Launches The “Essential” Phone and Home
Andy Rubin Launches The “Essential” Phone and Home
May 31, 2017  |  Innovation

The co-creator of Google’s Android mobile phone operating system, Andy Rubin, rolled out a new company dubbed Essential Products that will sell a high end mobile phone and...

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Amazon Tracker: Alexa All Grown Up
Amazon Tracker: Alexa All Grown Up
May 23, 2017  |  Retail

Alexa is growing up. This month, she learned to receive push notifications for four basic skills, including breaking news and food delivery; to video chat,...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Echo Show, The Speaker Who Would Be King
Voice-Activated Tracker: Echo Show, The Speaker Who Would Be King
May 15, 2017  |  Voice Activation

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Amazon’s Alexa To Dominate Voice-Activated Personal Assistant Market
Amazon’s Alexa To Dominate Voice-Activated Personal Assistant Market
May 09, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon and its voice-activated assistant, Alexa, is dominating the burgeoning digital personal assistant market, with research firm eMarketer predicting it will command 70.6 percent of...

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Microsoft And Harman Team Up For Speaker Powered By Cortana
Microsoft And Harman Team Up For Speaker Powered By Cortana
May 09, 2017  |  Voice Activation

Microsoft is getting into the voice-activated personal assistant market, teaming up with Harman International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, to roll out a...

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