voice assistant

Amazon Expands Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit For Device Makers

Amazon Expands Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit For Device Makers
Amazon Expands Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit For Device Makers
June 27, 2019  |  Retail

Amazon’s Alexa Mobile Accessory (AMA) kit, which is software to help integrate Alexa into devices, is getting new features, including GPS-based location support and a...

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Vodafone Users Can Now Make Calls Via Alexa Devices
Vodafone Users Can Now Make Calls Via Alexa Devices
June 12, 2019  |  Retail

Vodafone, the U.K. telecom company, is enabling customers to make and receive phone calls via an Amazon Echo Speaker with Alexa, its digital voice assistant,...

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Waze Integrates With Google Assistant
Waze Integrates With Google Assistant
June 10, 2019  |  Innovation

Waze, the GPS app owned by Google since 2013, just got an upgrade by being integrated into Google Assistant. According to a report citing Google,...

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Amazon Pay Bullish On Voice Payments Future
Amazon Pay Bullish On Voice Payments Future
June 04, 2019  |  Retail

Patrick Gauthier, vice president of Amazon Pay, said voice payment through digital assistants will transform the payments industry in the same way mobile phones did,...

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Shareholders’ Proposal To Oust Zuckerberg Is Voted Down
Shareholders’ Proposal To Oust Zuckerberg Is Voted Down
May 31, 2019  |  Facebook / Meta

Despite their best efforts, Facebook‘s shareholders failed to replace CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the social media giant’s chairman. Fortune reported that the proposal was voted...

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BoA’s Erica Not As Renowned As Alexa, But Picking Up Fans Fast
BoA’s Erica Not As Renowned As Alexa, But Picking Up Fans Fast
May 30, 2019  |  Connected Economy

A little over a year ago, the world met Bank of America’s answer to Alexa, it’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual assistant named Erica. The announcement...

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Alexa Users Can Now Delete Voice Recordings
Alexa Users Can Now Delete Voice Recordings
May 29, 2019  |  Cybersecurity

Amazon announced on Wednesday (May 29) an easier way for users to delete voice recordings on all Alexa-enabled devices, responding to the recent backlash. Buried...

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Russia’s Yandex Launches AI-Powered Smart Home Product
Russia’s Yandex Launches AI-Powered Smart Home Product
May 23, 2019  |  Innovation

Yandex, the Russian technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning, has announced the launch of the first smart home ecosystem...

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