Amazon Alexa

You can now group up multiple Echo’s for music playback thanks to a new feature that Amazon has started to roll out to its Alexa software. The multi-room feature as Amazon is calling it, will let you connect more than one Echo speaker together and let you synchronize your music streaming so that it plays […]

Amazon on Tuesday debuted multi-room audio support for its Echo Internet-enabled speakers, consequently allowing users to play music on individual devices or group them together in an effort to create a surround experience. Rumors of multi-room audio support being in the works for Amazon’s Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been circulating the industry for […]

LG Electronics is soon set to integrate Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Alexa into its lineup of smart home appliances, the South Korean consumer electronics manufacturer said on Sunday, as reported by local media. The Seoul-based tech giant will demonstrate the capabilities of its Alexa-powered devices at this year’s iteration of IFA, a Berlin, Germany-based […]

Robotics company, Bionik Laboratories, has integrated Amazon’s Echo and Alexa into its ARKE exoskeleton in an effort to help individuals with lower body disabilities move around with ease by just issuing voice commands to the mobility device. With this new integration, paraplegic users can now control ARKE using Amazon’s voice-activated technologies in order to walk […]

Amazon announced that it has created a new software development kit that helps device makers integrate Alexa into their system software. The new SDK makes Alexa integration simpler than ever, allowing device makers to get products with Alexa out to market faster and on a tighter budget. The SDK includes core libraries for Alexa compatibility, […]

Amazon has been offering Alexa skill developers the chance to earn some bonus cash for their Skills being among the top in customer engagement for a few categories, and today the firm announced that Education & Reference, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Music & Audio, and Productivity are now joining the program. Previously, it […]

Earlier this month, Anker’s Eufy brand announced its own Alexa-speaker called the Genie. It is essentially everything that the Echo Dot from Amazon is, but a bit cheaper. The Eufy Genie is now available for purchase for just $34.99, which is actually $15 cheaper than the Echo Dot. And it’s still cheaper than the Echo […]

Amazon is set to launch its Alexa-enabled smart speaker Echo and its smaller sibling Echo Dot in India during the Diwali festival on October 18, industry sources said on Wednesday. The Indian price tag for both artificial intelligence-based speakers remains unknown at this time, though the report claims it is possible that Amazon Echo could […]

Ultimate Ears, today, announced that it is bringing Alexa support to its latest flagship speakers, the BOOM 2 and the MEGABOOM. With this update, users will be able to tap the BOOM 2 or the MEGABOOM Bluetooth speaker and talk to Alexa, similar to the Amazon Tap. Unfortunately, there isn’t support for these speakers to […]

Anker’s smart home and lifestyle brand, Eufy, has just announced its first smart speaker, in the Eufy Genie. This smart speaker will be priced at $34.99 and have Alexa built in, thus competing directly with Amazon’s Echo Dot and even undercutting it a bit. Similar to what you’d get from the Echo and Echo Dot, […]

Amazon Echo devices are due to receive multi-room support as part of a future update, according to a new report out of Caschys. The report does not provide much to support the statement but does say that the feature has been confirmed and is on the way. In fact, the report goes on to state […]

Last month, Amazon and Sears had a bit of an interesting announcement. Amazon is going to begin to sell Sears’ Kenmore appliances through its online store, and in turn, Sears will be adding Alexa to its appliances. Virtually making its entire lineup of appliances “smart.” This is a big deal, and perhaps a bigger deal […]

Fire TV is getting far-field voice control via Alexa thanks to the newly added support between Fire TV and any Echo device like the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. Thanks to this newly added feature, users with an Amazon Fire TV or Amazon Fire TV Stick who also own an Echo device will be […]

The Amazon Echo, a smart speaker designed to be controlled using the human voice, could be struggling to keep up with competition in countries where English is not the primary language due to the device’s lack of support for other languages, according to a new report. On the other hand, smart speakers built with support […]

Sony has added Amazon Echo support to its 2017 lineup of 4K HDR TVs that have Android TV built-in, the company announced in a press release today. This expands the features of these already very capable television sets, and the compatibility with Amazon’s Echo platform should extend to any 4K HDR TV with Android TV […]

The Amazon Echo 2 will reportedly be smaller and have better sound, and those are just a couple of the improvements that Amazon is said to be introducing for the second generation of its Artificial Intelligence-enabled smart home speaker. Smaller is also more of a broad term, and according to the details there’s actually a […]

It seems Amazon’s Prime Day for this year is already seeing big gains compared to last year, as it is now being reported that Amazon has so far sold more than three times as many Echo-related devices as it did in 2016. While this is likely to be expected (due to the number of Echo-related […]

The Amazon Echo is now seeing its lowest price ever, ahead of Amazon Prime Day on Tuesday. The Amazon Echo is currently selling for $89.99, which is the lowest price the refurbished model has ever been priced at. Typically the refurbished model would sell for around $165. Amazon’s Echo is the high-end version of the […]

Amazon has dropped the price of a refurbished Echo Dot to just $29.99. That is the lowest the refurbished model has ever been, with the previous low being around $37.99, making this is a great time to jump on the Alexa bandwagon. Amazon is offering it in both black and white at this price. The […]

The Amazon Echo Show began shipping this week, and iFixit has already town down the new device to see what’s inside and if there might be any surprises hanging around. The Echo Show is Amazon’s latest Alexa-enabled device, and it’s basically an Echo with a display on the front. Which really opens up a whole […]

Amazon is reportedly planning on launching its smart speaker lineup in India later this year. The Amazon Echo will be backed by the company’s artificial intelligence-based (AI) platform Alexa and sources claim that while the smart speaker will initially be launched with an English interface, it will later be updated to support commands in a […]

Google’s smart home speaker answered a lot more questions than Amazon’s Alexa, beating the latter in a quiz complete with 3,000 questions. A New York-based digital agency named 360i conducted the research to find out which smart home speaker among the two is more intelligent. The agency used a proprietary software to ask some 3,000 […]

Today, B&H Photo is offering up the unlocked LG G6 for just $549, which is a pretty great price for a recently released, flagship smartphone. Meanwhile, over on Amazon, it is selling a number of certified refurbished MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops. Then there’s the Ring Doorbell Pro. This is the more high-end doorbell […]

Today, Amazon has discounted a number of last-minute Father’s Day gifts, so if you haven’t gotten anything for Father’s Day this coming Sunday, now’s a great time to do so. The Nextbit Robin is also on sale, marked down to just $117.99, the lowest price ever. Then there’s the Ring Doorbell Pro. This is the […]

The Amazon Echo and Echo Dot are currently being discounted over on Amazon’s website, something that doesn’t happen all that often. The Amazon Echo can be had for $139.99, which is $40 off of its regular price when you use the promo code ECHOSAVE40. Now the Amazon Echo Dot has a $10 price cut when you use […]

Today, Amazon has given the Echo Dot a very rare discount. Dropping the price from $49.99 to just $39.99, effectively taking 20% off of the regular price here. The Echo Dot hasn’t dropped to this price since the holiday season last year. Which means it’s a great time to pick up the Echo Dot and […]

Amazon’s Alexa will be getting a new feature that could be a massive boost to its functionality soon, in the form of notifications for Alexa. According to an announcement made today via the company’s developers page, the feature is far enough along that developers can now sign up to be notified when the associated developer […]

One of the highlight features of HTC’s newest smartphone, the HTC U11, is its support for both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. The inclusion of these two personal assistants gives HTC U11 owners the choice on which assistant to use, especially if they are more invested in one smart home ecosystem over the other. Google […]

The Amazon Echo was the first device to sport Alexa support. It’s a great speaker as well as looking great. And right now, Amazon has discounted the Echo to just $149. That’s $30 off of its regular price, and a very rare discount for the Echo. Amazon’s Echo is a Bluetooth speaker, so you can […]

Amazon recently banned almost all forms of advertising on their Alexa voice assistant platform, but VoiceLabs has revealed a new way to monetize Skills, called Sponsored Messages. These Sponsored Messages not only provide a much-needed avenue of monetization to developers who would otherwise go either mostly or completely unpaid for their work, but are interactive, […]

Amazon has confirmed that its newly-announced Echo Show will soon gain support for third-party display and video interfaces. While the Amazon Echo range is not a new line of products, the Amazon Echo Show is, and of more importance, adopts the use of a new key ingredient, a display. Making it quite different to the […]

Today, Amazon announced the newest addition to the Echo family which is the Echo Show. It’s the Echo with a display that has been rumored for quite some time, and the company has already put the thing on sale. Well technically you have to buy two of them to get a discount, but a sale […]

Over the past week details have started to come through about the launch of a new Amazon Echo device from Amazon. Today, a new report out of the Wall Street Journal looks to reconfirm some of the already-rumored points as well as expand on those details. For instance, the latest report suggests the new Amazon […]

Amazon’s Echo is already an incredibly useful device, but an even more versatile version of the gadget equipped with a screen may be coming next month, according to industry sources. Information on the device itself is scant but sources said that it could be unveiled as early as next month. That, of course, could be […]

Amazon’s Alexa is a service that finds much of its strength in its ability to link up to third party apps, and today, it’s getting just a little bit stronger in that regard with the ability to link to a G Suite account’s calendar. As of today, G Suite customers can not only have Alexa […]

In January, Huawei announced that they would be bringing Alexa support to their latest flagship, the Huawei Mate 9. Today, they are pushing out the software update that brings Alexa to the Mate 9, via an OTA update. The update will begin rolling out today, and continue over the next few days as a staged […]

Amazon is continually adding new capabilities to its Alexa package, and the newest one involves around ordering food and having it delivered. Their latest partnership with GrubHub allows you to do just that, although on a limited basis for now. You simply add the Grubhub skill to Alexa and what prompts you want to use, […]

Moto has become almost synonymous with the idea of improving a given device using modular mobile add-ons that it calls “mods” and the company is looking to continue that trend with its newly announced Amazon Alexa Mod. The Alexa Mod is set to bring many of Alexa’s most appealing feature to its Moto Z devices […]

At CES 2017, Ford announced that they were adding support for Amazon’s Alexa into their SYNC3 infotainment system. In January, Ford rolled out the update to a few of their vehicles, with the remaining portion of their fleet getting the update before the end of the year. The Ford Fusion Energi was one of three […]

The Google Home and Amazon Echo smart speakers may receive support for voice calls this year, according to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal. Sources with knowledge of the matter allegedly said that both Amazon and Google are considering adding support for voice calls to their Internet-enabled speakers but still haven’t gone through […]

Amazon Alexa can now add Plex to their list of integrations. Alexa has been off to a pretty impressive start in 2017. After having numerous integrations announced at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Alexa has just added another one. This time it’s Plex. Those that don’t know what Plex is, or haven’t heard of Plex […]

Amazon Echo is starting to show that it is penetrating the mainstream market. This comes from data collected by Slice Intelligence which highlights that not only are Echo devices selling well, but they are now starting to sell well, to everyone. For instance, Slice found that 50-percent of the revenue generated from Amazon Echo products […]

Renders of the upcoming Huawei P10 have just been leaked by a source out of China. Anzhuo, a Chinese tech website, posted renders of the alleged Huawei P10 on its website earlier today, which showcase a Huawei device which comes in three colors, namely Black, Gold and White. If you take a look at the […]

Whirlpool, the world’s number one major home appliance manufacturer, is adding Amazon Alexa support to a number of its up and coming smart home appliances, due later in 2017. This new technology will provide customers of an existing Amazon Alexa device with the ability to integrate and change the set up of a number of […]

Amazon’s Alexa Voice Software has lacked the ability to engage in contextual conversations with users since it debuted with the Amazon Echo speaker, and this is an area where Google has pulled ahead once they launched Google Assistant and the Google Home, but it seems that Amazon has gone ahead and changed that with a […]

Amazon recently received a warrant to hand over recordings of an Echo speaker connected to a 2015 murder case in Bentonville, Arkansas. The smart speaker belongs to one James Andrew Bates, a man accused of first-degree murder of Victor Collins in November of last year. Bates’ murder trial is scheduled to start in 2017, and Amazon was ordered to […]

Amazon’s Echo Dot is currently the cheapest way to bring Alexa into your home. It’s a small speaker that has Amazon’s personal assistant inside, and it’s back in stock. The device has been discounted from $49 to $39 for the majority of the holiday shopping season, which has led to Amazon being out of stock […]

Alexa is the personal assistant that Amazon built into the Echo speaker and has since put into a number of other devices like the Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick and more. Alexa, when she first debuted in 2014, was a pretty basic assistant, but now she has grown into something much more. And some people […]

Amazon’s personal assistant is able to track Santa on Christmas Eve thanks to the Kayak skill that is available. Much like Google Home, Alexa is able to let you know where Santa is on his trip around the world to deliver presents to all of the good boys and girls. The Google Assistant can already […]

Logitech may be known for their mice and keyboards, and possibly even webcams. But that’s not all that Logitech has in their portfolio. In recent years, they have been moving into the Internet of Things category, which includes Smart Home products. They have the Logitech Circle camera, but perhaps more interesting is the Logitech Harmony […]

The Amazon Echo is quite likely one of the most enduring and commercially successful hardware offerings from Amazon. The company has quite the mixed history when it comes to its earlier hardware products, with wildly different fortunes for its flagship tablets and smartphones. While the Kindle range of tablets are generally accepted as the standard […]

Fitbit-made wearables were the most in-demand tech product last week and are currently the second most popular purchase among all Holiday items, according to Hitwise, an online unit of the international consumer analytics firm Connexity. The said company recently released a top 10 chart listing the most popular searches over the period ranging from November […]

For Black Friday, Amazon lowered the price of the Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap, and then they returned to their regular prices after Cyber Week ended. Now, all three products have seen their prices dropped once again, to Black Friday prices. The Amazon Echo is available for $139, down from $179, the Amazon Echo […]

As devices with smart assistants are currently some of the most appealing products created by the Internet of Things (IoT) industry, Amazon, Google, and other consumer electronics manufacturers are looking to bring their virtual companions to as many devices as possible. A couple of months ago, Amazon updated its digital assistant with the ability to […]

Stumped on a gift for someone on your list this holiday season? Check out the Amazon Echo. It’s a product that everyone will love. Whether they are a techie or not. The Amazon Echo may look like a simple speaker, but it’s much more than that. The Amazon Echo is a Bluetooth speaker with Amazon’s […]

While the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices isn’t growing at an incredible speed, consumers all over the world are still gradually getting accustomed to the idea that they can ask their phone what’s on the agenda today, or order their connected speaker to put on some music, cast funny cat videos on a […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) industry is growing in a slow, but steady manner, and as more connected consumer electronics enter the market, people are gradually growing accustomed to the idea of telling their smartphone to turn on the lights and asking their speaker to put on some John Lennon. Speaking of smart speakers, the […]

The Amazon Echo is likely going to be at the top of everyone’s list this holiday season, and Amazon is starting the holiday season by knocking $40 off of its regular price. Bringing it down to $139. For those that may be unaware of what the Amazon Echo actually is, it’s a Bluetooth speaker with […]

Amazon has been pushing the Echo Dot quite a bit since it was launched a few months ago. It’s the only Alexa-powered product that is bundled with other products to get your smart home started. Amazon has bundled it with things like the TP-Link Smart Plug, Bose SoundTouch 10 and more. The reason why Amazon […]

Google released its range of new products and upgraded existing ones during an event held in San Francisco last month. One of the new products Google launched at that event is the Google Home; an AI-powered voice-activated speaker. The Google Home is the company’s latest take on in voice-activated smart speaker market, which is currently […]