Amazon and Garmin team up to bring Alexa into the car with $150 Speak device Garmin this morning announced a new device powered by Amazon’s digital brain Alexa for cars that can play music, give… Read More
How Amazon’s Alexa overcame doubters — even within the project team — to conquer the voice speaker market Alexa has been a hit, helping Amazon capture an early lead in the voice-activated speaker market through the Echo and… Read More
GeekWire Summit Live: WA state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, head of Alexa and Echo devices Toni Reid and more Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson became the central face in the battle against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Longtime… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa can now reserve a car2go, the newest of the digital assistant’s 25K skills Owners of an Amazon Echo or other Alexa-powered device can now tell Amazon’s digital brain to reserve a car2go vehicle.… Read More
Sonos debuts $199 Alexa-powered smart speaker, with Google Assistant coming next year Sonos today showed off the fruits of a partnership with Amazon first announced last year. At an event in New… Read More
Is there an Echo in here? Yes, several! Here’s everything Amazon announced today Amazon just put out a flurry of new Alexa-powered devices and services, as the company continues to find new ways… Read More
Hey, Odessa, does the new Amazon Echo look a bit like that one from ‘Saturday Night Live’? The revamped Echo from Amazon, unveiled Wednesday in Seattle, comes with improved sound, a lower price and a new design.… Read More
5,000 people are working to make Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa smarter, with more to come Amazon said Wednesday at an event unveiling the next generation Echo device that it has the equivalent of a small town… Read More
Podcast Geared Up: Nest bets big on smart home security, and Google makes a deal with HTC Google’s Nest is taking its smart home tech to a whole new level. The company has been pretty quiet over… Read More
Podcast Geared Up: Smart home tips and tricks, from Amazon’s Alexa to Apple’s Home Kit The smart home is all the rage these days, with companies churning out intelligent gadgets and voice-controlled doo-dads like there’s… Read More
‘Alexa, change the channel’: Amazon Echo speakers can now control some smart TVs Amazon just released a new capability for its digital brain Alexa that is sure to delight chronic TV remote misplacers.… Read More
Amazon Echo devices are top Prime Day sellers, doubling last year’s total in the U.S. Alexa-powered devices are flying off the virtual shelves during Amazon’s supersized Prime Day shopping event. Amazon said it has already… Read More
Amazon gives sneak preview of ‘hundreds of thousands of deals’ for Prime Day 2017 Amazon is gearing up for the third installment of its summer shopping event Prime Day, giving a sneak preview of… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 voice skills, more than doubling since beginning of the year As more and more companies get into the smart speaker game, a new report shows just how much ground they… Read More
Best Buy introducing Amazon Alexa and Google Home experiences to 700 U.S. stores There’s going to be a lot of chatter about and with voice-activated assistants in Best Buy stores thanks to new Amazon… Read More
Apple’s Seattle job listings reveal desire to attract AI talent to work on Siri in the land of Amazon’s Alexa When Apple announced plans earlier this year to expand its engineering operation in Seattle, the company said it would be… Read More
Reviews: Appearances aside, Amazon’s Echo Show looks like a hit The first reviews are in for the Echo Show, Amazon’s newest $230 Alexa-powered device, and it appears the company has… Read More
Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only Amazon has cut the price of its Echo smart speaker to $129.99, the same price as the Google Home speaker,… Read More
Paul Allen’s AI group built a voice search for Alexa skills, but Amazon rejected it Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is very skillful, now at more than 12,000 third-party capabilities, but it can sometimes be difficult… Read More
Inside Sonos’ Seattle office, where the music is bumpin’ and the team is growin’ Sonos, the high-tech connected speaker maker that opened a Seattle office about two years ago, is turning up the volume… Read More
Amazon passes 10M Alexa-powered devices sold, survey says, with more models on the way A new survey estimates that Amazon has sold more than 10 million Alexa-powered Echo devices since late 2014, and that… Read More
‘Alexa, get that lampshade off your head’: $200 Alexa-powered GE table lamp coming this fall Among Alexa’s more than 12,000 abilities are a cavalcade of ways for Amazon’s digital assistant to control the house, like turning… Read More
‘Alexa, get us some wins!’ Seattle Mariners add Amazon Echos to private suites at ballpark Fans of the Seattle Mariners might have a lot of questions about why their team is off to a slow… Read More
Alexa reaches 12,000 skills as Amazon’s digital assistant powers new Echo Look device Alexa’s very special set of skills now numbers more than 12,000. Amazon announced the increased skill count in its quarterly… Read More
Alexa, it’s too damn hot in here! Be cool, and say hello to GE’s connected air conditioner If the idea of household appliances becoming sentient and destroying the world keeps you up at night, avert your eyes… Read More
Amazon’s newest pillars? AI and logistics key to tech giant’s future, study says Amazon has evolved constantly throughout its more than 20-year life span, first as a book seller, than an e-commerce giant, and… Read More
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
Clean your floors and your plate: Amazon Alexa skills added to Roomba vacuums and Grubhub If you want to clean up before ordering in some food, or you need to clean up after eating that… Read More
