Tag: Echo
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...
Devices: Google leads in smart speakers, Apple in wearables
Apple and Google have reported positive Q1 sales figures for wearables and smart speakers, respectively.
The news is particularly good for Google: sales of the...
Researchers find Amazon Alexa could eavesdrop on customers
NEWSBYTE Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability that enabled Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa, to listen in on people’s conversations after the 'Alexa' wake-up word had...
Amazon: Alexa upgrades for memory, context, meaning = antitrust risk?
Amazon has announced three new upgrades for its Alexa AI platform on the back of healthy revenue increases, and is trailing a future of...
Alexa for Business: Amazon’s voice getting louder in enterprise, it claims
The retail and Web services giant is conquering the enterprise with its smart assistant, it says.
With Alexa for Business, Amazon looked set to bring...
Cuckoo! Google flies Nest into its hardware division
Google is to absorb smart devices vendor Nest into its internal hardware team, in a reversal of previous strategy.
Google's head of hardware, Rick Osterloh,...
Blueborne discovered to affect Amazon Echo and Google Home
Intelligent speaker vendors forced to patch up AI-enabled voice assistants after devices shown to be vulnerable to Blueborne virus.
Back in September, we reported how...
Amazon Echo assumed responsible for successful 911 call
In March, Arkansas police ordered Amazon to hand over data from one of its smart home devices as part of a murder investigation. In...
Amazon Echo Dot review: Smart home assistant shows teenage potential
Internet of Business Editor Doug Drinkwater reviews the Amazon Echo Dot – the $49 voice assistant threatening to make your home smart, and your...