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Amazon Targets Children With Echo Dot Kids

Athina Mallis April 26, 2018 No Comments

Amazon is heading into the children’s market with the launch of Echo Dot Kids, a colourful smart speaker pre-loaded with the new parental control software, FreeTime on Alexa. Amazon FreeTime…

Amazon Echo Spot Lands In Australia

Roma Christian April 26, 2018 No Comments

Set to further ignite competition in the smart speaker market, Amazon has announced its Echo Spot is now available to buy in Australia for $199. From today, Aussies can purchase…

Alexa Can Now Dish Out Compliments and Insults

Athina Mallis April 20, 2018 No Comments

Amazon is expanding the way users communicate with Alexa as the smart assistant can now be taught custom responses such as compliments and insults with the new Alexa Skill Blueprint.…

Amazon Echo Spot Heading Down Under

Athina Mallis April 19, 2018 No Comments

The Amazon Echo Spot, the smallest smart speaker in the Echo range with a built-in display screen and camera, is launching in Australia next week. The Echo Spot has the same…

Apple HomePod Sales Fall Short, Inventory Piles Up

Roma Christian April 13, 2018 No Comments

Sales of Apple’s HomePod have reportedly missed targets, as employees reveal inventory is pilling up. The news comes as competition within the smart speaker market continues to intensify, with commentators asserting Apple is further…

Amazon Oz Happily “Misunderstood”, Ramps Up 5 Year Plan

Roma Christian April 11, 2018 No Comments

At its first ‘Innovation Day’ in Sydney yesterday, Amazon Australia affirmed it’s “comfortable” being “misunderstood”, as the e-commerce behemoth outlaid its ambitious expansion plan for the next five to seven…

Google Assistant And Alexa Can Give You Lonely Planet Travel Tips

Athina Mallis April 3, 2018 No Comments

Just when we thought Google Assistant and Alexa could do everything a new function comes along, this time Google and Amazon’s respective smart speakers can give you travel tips via…

Amazon Asks Alexa To “Shut Up” With New ‘Brief Mode’

Roma Christian March 20, 2018 No Comments

Amazon has asked Alexa to ‘shut up’, and is developing a new ‘Brief Mode’ to replace some of its virtual assistant’s verbal replies with non-verbal signals (e.g. beeps). ‘Brief Mode’ will likely appease…

Amazon Alexa Has A Random Laughing Problem

David Richards March 8, 2018 No Comments

Amazon has a problem, their Alexa speakers have taken to randomly laughing and what is not known is whether someone is having a lend of the big online retailer. The…

Samsung Bixby Speakers Delayed, IFA Launch Tipped

David Richards February 28, 2018 No Comments

Samsung who has chosen to go down the proprietary route when it comes to voice activated devices has been forced to delay a new range of Bixby speakers according to…