Acumatica, the privately held enterprise cloud technology company led by former Microsoft executive Jon Roskill, is coming off a year of 83 percent revenue growth, and the company had a lot to show at… Read More
Millions of people watching Super Bowl 51 today will get a taste of Google Home. The tech giant will air a 1-minute Super Bowl advertisement during the big game this afternoon… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon said this week that there are now more than 7,000 Alexa skills, third-party integrations that extend the capabilities of its voice platform. But that’s just the beginning… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon’s early lead with the Echo smart speaker left competitor like Google playing catch up. But a few months ago Google Home arrived on the scene, competing… Read More
Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is growing outside the online retail giant, with PC maker Lenovo and Dish Network both announcing Alexa-powered and supported devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in… Read More
Amazon doesn’t even have its own CES booth, but the Seattle-based tech giant promises to be one of the biggest stories at the tech-a-palooza in Las Vegas next week — thanks to two of… Read More
Can Google Home take on Amazon Echo? Can Nintendo make a console comeback? And can Snapchat make you wear goofy glasses? We ponder all of those questions this week, as we go hand-on… Read More
Amazon’s Echo device has reached a sales milestone, with a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimating that the retail giant has sold 5.1 million of the smart speakers… Read More
Google’s $129 smart speaker ships tomorrow, and a new batch of reviews say Google Home is smarter than its competitor and trailblazer in the field, the Amazon Alexa-powered Echo, because… Read More
Amazon’s Echo product line has been called the “accidental winner” of the smart-home speaker market, but it’s more accurate to say it’s the accidental early leader. Google’s rival, Google Home, will be released… Read More
Google today unveiled a huge new catalog of devices it plans to release in the coming months: a new smartphone, a virtual-reality headset and platform, its voice-activated home speakers, a new WiFi… Read More
Google is poised to launch its Amazon Echo challenger at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to reports from The New York Times, Mashable, and others. Google Home, a… Read More
Nobody likes to be misunderstood, especially by a machine. We’ve all become pointlessly exasperated with the virtual assistants that power our devices when they just can’t seem to grasp what… Read More
Google unveiled its Amazon Echo competitor, the Google Home, at Google I/O today. Just like the Echo, the smart speaker connects with smart home devices, provides voice search functionality and, of course,… Read More