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Amazon Brings Alexa Voice Control To Its Fire TV Line
New Alexa voice-control capabilities coming to Amazon’s Fire TV set-top box and Fire TV Stick will lets consumers use their voice to select streaming-video...
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Battery Base Lets Amazon Echo Cut The Cable
Now Amazon Echo owners can use their music-playing/ home-controlling/question-answering/pizza-ordering cylinder without plugging it in. Mission Cables, a manufacturer of Roku, Chromecast and Fire TV...
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Google Unveils Smart Speaker, Android Wear Updates, Better VR
Virtual reality and Android Wear wearables starred at Google’s annual developers conference, where the company also unveiled its Google Home voice-controlled wireless speaker and...
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Jeff Bezos Planning More Amazon Retail Stores
Basking in the afterglow of his company’s first $100 billion year, Amazon founder/CEO Jeff Bezos told shareholders at the e-tailer’s annual meeting Tuesday that...
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Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV Gain On Roku, Chromecast
Amazon’s Fire TV and Apple TV are gaining on Roku in U.S. sales share, but Roku is holding on to its top spot even...
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Amazon’s Fire TV Builds Its Alexa Vocabulary
New Alexa voice-control capabilities coming to Amazon’s Fire TV set-top box and Fire TV Stick will lets consumers use their voice to select streaming-video...
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Amazon Expanding Private-Label Lines
Amazon’s proprietary tech devices are among the site’s top-selling items. Now, the company is reportedly looking to repeat that success in a host of...
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Google’s Answer To Amazon’s Echo Is Landing Soon
Google has long had voice assistant tech in its Android phones, but it has yet to bake that into the home, a key growing...
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Mission Cables’ Battery Base Lets Amazon Echo Cut The Cable
Now Amazon Echo owners can use their music-playing/home-controlling/question-answering/pizza-ordering cylinder without plugging it in. Mission Cables, a manufacturer of Roku, Chromecast and Fire TV accessories,...
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Amazon Prime Wins Prime Demographic
Amazon Prime is primed for continued growth thanks to a key demographic within its membership ranks. According to Wolfe Research retail analyst Scott Mushkin, the...
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Walmart Challenging Amazon With Test Of Two-Day Deliveries
Walmart, which has been offering a three-day shipping program for $50/year, is looking to close the gap with Amazon Prime by cutting deliveries by...
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Why Staples And Office Depot Can Still Withstand Amazon
Absent a merger, Amazon is bound to destroy Staples’ and Office Depot’s retail businesses. But their solid lock on the commercial channel – which prompted...
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Amazon Taking On YouTube With New Prime Video Direct
Amazon has put another target in its crosshairs: YouTube. The e-tailer announced a new feature to its Amazon Prime Video arm on Tuesday, known...
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Amazon Adding Minority Neighborhoods Neglected By Prime
Following a report by Bloomberg News showing that Amazon Prime’s same-day delivery service tended to exclude black neighborhoods, the e-tailer has expanded its coverage...
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Intraix’s Klug Adds Home Control To Any Wi-Fi Router
Singapore start-up Intraix wants you to turn an existing Wi-Fi router into a smart-home hub by plugging in a USB stick incorporating smart-home technology....
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The Near Future Of Voice Control
See also: What The Future Of Voice Control Looks Like In Smart Homes Awareness: Voice control of smartphones is building awareness of the potential...
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Why Get An Echo When You Can Get A Triby?
You can now talk to Alexa on a non-Amazon speaker. Invoxia, a speaker and telecom manufacturer, has launched the Triby, a magnetic portable Bluetooth...
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What The Future Of Smart-Home Voice Control Looks Like
Is voice control the new disruptor? With the popularity and visibility of Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana, and by future...
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Bezos Touts Amazon Tech Amid Q1 Coup
Amazon reported exemplary first-quarter results yesterday, driven in part by the company’s burgeoning web services arm. But founder/CEO Jeff Bezos used the opportunity to brag...
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Amazon’s Alexa Will Bring Mom Flowers On Mother’s Day
Amazon doesn’t want to hear any excuses about Mother’s Day this year. 1-800-Flowers.com said Amazon Echo, Dot, Tap and Fire TV owners can now...
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Amazon Winning At Mobile Retail Too
As the online shopping race shifts to m-commerce, it would appear that Amazon is killing it in that space as well. According to a...
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Amazon Limiting Non-Prime Access To Select Games And Films
In a further effort to steer customers toward its $99/year Prime membership program, Amazon won’t sell certain movies and video games — like “Birdman” on...
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Amazon’s Fire & Kids Fire Get More Storage, New Colors
Amazon is giving the low-cost, hot-selling Fire tablet an upgrade. The e-tailer announced it has doubled the internal storage size of both the Fire...
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It’s True: Amazon Has The Best Pricing For Electronics
Sorry Walmart: Amazon offers the best deals for electronics. Lowe’s, meanwhile, bests The Home Depot in major appliances. That’s according to recent findings...
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Amazon Nudges Netflix With Video-Only Prime Subscription
Amazon is now offering a Netflix-like option by opening access to its vast Prime Video library for $8.99 a month. The stand-alone service excludes...
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Hot Fun In The Summertime: An Amazon Tech Preview
Amazon recently set up temporary shop in Manhattan to preview its top product picks for summer. Here’s an exclusive look at the e-tailer’s short...
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Amazon’s Kindle Oasis E-Reader Priced Like A Tablet
Amazon expanded its Kindle e-reader lineup with its highest-price Kindle ever, the $289 Oasis with included leather charging cover, brighter screen, and a center...
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Amazon Has Sold 3 Million (And Counting) Echos In The U.S.
Amazon sold 3 million of its Echo wireless speaker and personal digital assistant in the U.S. since its launch in late 2014, and more...
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D-Link Adds Alexa Voice Control To Wi-Fi Smart Plugs
D-Link has joined the growing number of smart-home suppliers integrating their products with Amazon’s Echo, Tap and Dot, and Fire TV, enabling voice control...
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Amazon’s Kindle Oasis E-Reader Priced Like A Tablet
Amazon expanded its Kindle e-reader lineup with its highest-price Kindle ever, the $289 Oasis with included leather charging cover, brighter screen, and a center...
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Lutron Adds Amazon’s Alexa Voice Control To Caseta Wireless Lighting Systems
Lutron Electronics has become the latest smart-home supplier to integrate its products with Amazon’s Echo, Tap and Dot, enabling voice control of Lutron’s Caseta...
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Amazon Expands Same-Day Prime Deliveries
Amazon has extended its Prime same-day delivery service to 11 new markets. The expansion raises the number of metro areas to 27 — encompassing more...
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Bezos Still Smarting From New York Times’ Amazon Article
Apparently last summer’s Amazon exposé in the New York Times is still sticking in CEO/founder Jeff Bezos’ craw. In it, Bezos was taken to...
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Amazon Has Sold 3 Million Echos In U.S.
Amazon sold 3 million of its Echo wireless speaker and personal digital assistant in the U.S. since its launch in late 2014, and more...
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You Can Now Pay For Amazon Prime Through Your Monthly Sprint Bill
Consumers will be able to subscribe to Amazon Prime service on a monthly basis for the first time by adding a Prime subscription to...
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Condoms With A Click: Amazon Dash Is At It Again
Amazon appears to be aiming for the college crowd with its latest raft of Amazon Dash button brands. As a refresher, Dash is a...
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Echo’s Long And Winding Road At Amazon
Gun shy after Fire Phone, and held to Jeff Bezos’ almost impossibly high standards, Amazon’s hardware developers had long road to hoe with the...
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Now You Can Pay For Amazon Prime Through Your Monthly Sprint Bill
Consumers will be able to subscribe to Amazon Prime service on a monthly basis for the first time by adding a Prime subscription to...
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Condoms With A Click: Amazon Dash Does It Again
Amazon appears to be aiming for the college crowd with its latest raft of Dash button brands. As a refresher, Dash is a Wi-Fi-based...
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Amazon Home Services Sees Massive Expansion
Calling all apartment dwellers and home owners! Need a plumber? The days of scouring the Yellow Pages and blindly searching the web for a...
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Amazon to Open Seventh California Fulfillment Center in San Bernardino
SEATTLE — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)today announced plans to open a seventh California fulfillment center in San Bernardino, where the company launched its first...
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Banned By Amazon: Tech Products It Won’t Touch
There are guidelines to what third-party sellers can and can’t sell on Amazon, but when it comes to tech products, the No. 1 e-tailer...