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Report: Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri battling to be digital assistant in Marriott hotel rooms

Hotels are quickly becoming the latest front in the battle for dominance of the nascent voice assistant market. Last year the… Read More

‘Alexa, order beer:’ Amazon adds Prime Now two-hour delivery voice ordering to digital assistant

Amazon has added Prime Now rapid delivery voice ordering to its Alexa-powered family of devices. That means owners of any… Read More

Samsung’s new digital assistant Bixby will debut on Galaxy S8, later expand to TVs and appliances

Samsung says it will release its own voice assistant, rivaling the Alexas and Siris of the world, with the Galaxy… Read More

Boy meets artificial girl: My son got an Echo Dot, and here’s what he’s saying to Amazon’s Alexa

In my 10 years as a parent, I’ve served as the authority on a number of subjects, ranging from when… Read More

How Amazon teaches Alexa, and what it hopes the virtual assistant will learn someday

Days after Amazon announced that it was bringing its Alexa to its iOS Amazon app, Amazon senior principal scientist Nikko… Read More

Alexa coming to Amazon iPhone app in bid to expand its lead in voice assistant market

Alexa is the brain behind the Amazon Echo, and has helped Amazon become a leader in the voice assistant market,… Read More

Amazon Web Services starts offering free cloud storage and computing for Alexa skills

Amazon Web Services will offer $100 in promotional credit and up to an additional $100/month to cover any extra cloud computing and storage… Read More

INRIX adds more content providers to OpenCar platform including NPR, Napster, Yelp and more

The INRIX OpenCar platform is bringing more content providers to the voice-activated dashboards of drivers looking for an ever-connected experience… Read More

Amazon hands over Alexa data in Arkansas hot tub murder case, but 1st Amendment questions remain

Amazon has dropped its motion to protect audio recordings and other records for an Echo belonging to the suspect in a 2015… Read More

Report: Amazon eyes new Alexa-powered devices that can make phone calls

Amazon is working on Alexa-powered devices with voice-activated phone calling capabilities, according to a report from Recode. Citing unnamed sources, Recode… Read More

Amazon establishes Alexa Fund Fellowship to support universities researching voice technology

Amazon Thursday announced the Alexa Fund Fellowship, a program designed to fund and support researchers and universities working on voice… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant reaches 10,000 skills, up from just 1K in June

Amazon’s Alexa reached a new milestone today: 10,000 skills. The company’s digital assistant now has 10,000 skills — the voice… Read More

Amazon fights search warrant for Echo voice data in Arkansas hot tub murder case

Amazon is fighting part of a search warrant that would require the online retail giant to hand over audio recordings and… Read More

Alexa gets even busier as Amazon integrates Outlook.com calendars onto Echo and Dot devices

Amazon’s Alexa will now support Outlook.com calendars, meaning the voice-enabled assistant can now tell you what’s on tap for the… Read More

Alexa in the warehouse? What enterprise cloud company Acumatica learned from this experiment

Acumatica, the privately held enterprise cloud technology company led by former Microsoft executive Jon Roskill, is coming off a year of 83 percent… Read More

Alexa’s impact on music lands Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Steve Boom on Billboard’s Power 100 list

First there was the walkman, then the iPod, and, now, it’s Alexa. The Amazon assistant is transforming how people listen… Read More

‘Alexa, order my Starbucks’: Coffee giant launches ‘reorder skill’ for Amazon’s voice assistant

Starbucks unveiled a new third-party skill for Amazon Alexa this morning, letting regular customers reorder their favorite coffee and food… Read More

Google CEO on competition with Amazon Echo and Alexa: Don’t count us out yet

Amazon is still reaping the benefits of its early lead in home voice technology, thanks to its Echo smart speaker… Read More

‘O.K. campers, rise and shine!’ Alexa channels ‘Groundhog Day’ with new commands for holiday

When Bill Murray wakes up in the 1993 comedy classic “Groundhog Day,” the only thing on his bedside table is… Read More

More than 8M people own an Amazon Echo as customer awareness increases ‘dramatically’

Amazon continues to see more and more traction with its voice-enabled speaker. A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP)… Read More

‘Alexa, find my keys’ … Pebblebee updates Finder app to add skill and enlist help of Amazon’s AI

If finding your lost keys sometimes becomes a group effort, Bellevue-Wash.-based Pebblebee wants to make the group even bigger. The… Read More

Beam me up! In homage to ‘Star Trek,’ Amazon adds ‘computer’ to list of Echo wake words

Amazon has updated its list of words users can use to trigger their Echo devices, and, much to the delight of… Read More

Video: What it’s like to use Amazon’s Alexa in a Ford hybrid car

LAS VEGAS — Alexa was the buzz of CES this year, with exhibitors showing integrations of Amazon’s voice-enabled virtual assistant into… Read More

Amazon at CES: ‘We believe there will be an Alexa skill for everyone, for everything’

LAS VEGAS — Amazon said this week that there are now more than 7,000 Alexa skills, third-party integrations that extend the… Read More

Amazon Alexa VP throws subtle shade at Google Home exec over Echo’s lead

LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s early lead with the Echo smart speaker left competitor like Google playing catch up. But a… Read More

Amazon Prime members can now order their favorite meals through Alexa

“Alexa, order dinner.” That’s not exactly how Amazon’s newest Alexa skill works, but that’s the gist. The online retail giant… Read More

GeekWire CES Dispatch, Day 2: High-tech celebrities, Alexa in the fridge, and VR barf bags

LAS VEGAS — The final CES media day was packed with surprises, reveals, and more than anything, Amazon’s Alexa. As… Read More

Ford is turning its cars into Amazon Alexa devices starting this month

LAS VEGAS — Ford will begin rolling out Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant this month, starting by allowing hybrid and electric vehicle owners to interact… Read More

Samsung doubles down on smart refrigerators with second generation of tablet-as-a-door technology

Last year Samsung raised eyebrows when it slapped a giant 21.5-inch LCD touch screen on the front of a refrigerator. This… Read More

‘This will put Monster on the map.’ High-end speaker manufacturer launches Amazon Alexa bundle

LAS VEGAS — Monster, the audio company behind Beats headphones, is bringing Amazon virtual assistant Alexa to its line of… Read More