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IoT security: Alexa down worldwide, speaks ill of Amazon

Internet of Business says Amazon’s Alexa service went down in many parts of the world on 26 September, with #Alexadown problems reported in the UK,...

Amazon debuts its new Alexa smart home & car devices

Amazon unveiled a host of new Alexa-enabled devices at a US event yesterday. Chris Middleton runs down all the new releases, and explains what...

Amazon launching 8 new Alexa smart home devices before Christmas

Amazon is planning to launch a number of new Alexa-powered devices in time for Christmas. The smart home devices are thought to include a microwave...

Emotional A.I: Mei messaging assistant warns of personality changes

Malek Murison reports on how a new AI system, Mei, could help people understand each other better when they use technology to communicate. But...

Microsoft, Amazon roll out Alexa-Cortana unification programme

Users of Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana digital assistants can now access features of the other's technology, said the companies in a joint announcement...

IoT security: Serious vulnerabilities found in Samsung SmartThings Hub

Cisco's cybersecurity arm Cisco Talos has discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the firmware of Samsung's SmartThings Hub. The device is designed to be controlled using a...

Amazon’s record financials reveal AWS as the $6bn golden egg

Retail behemoth and connected technology company Amazon has reported Q2 results that reveal record profits of $2.5 billion and 39 percent year-on-year revenue growth. Amazon...

Amazon moves into smart TVs – and enterprise cloud hardware

UPDATED While Amazon's 'Prime Day' is grabbing the headlines today (see below), two announcements over the weekend revealed the breadth of the company's ambitions...

Smart speaker market 2.5 times bigger than 2017, says report

Analyst firm Canalys expects the smart speaker market to approach an installed base of 100 million devices by the end of this year, making...

Capgemini: Consumers welcoming AI – but businesses focused on cost

Consumers are rapidly acclimatising to artificial intelligence, but organisations’ adoption of the technology is largely being driven by cost, not customer benefits, according to...

Security: The IoT is destroying legal concept of privacy warns in-depth...

THE BIG READ A new report cautions that the Internet of Things may undermine the concept of personal privacy to such an extent that...

Amazon booms as high street withers. Next up: robots and insurance

UPDATED Retail and Web services giant Amazon plans to add over 2,500 permanent jobs in the UK this year, taking its British workforce to...
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