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If asking digital assistants to play music, answer questions, read stories, and tell jokes,tu on lights, lock doors is your thing, then Amazon Echo(3rd Gen) is definitely a great product and in many...

You can now buy a new Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus or a Samsung Galaxy S10e device and get up to $600 discount from Amazon US. You can now save as much as $600 on the purchase of Galaxy...

A month after the last discount, Microsoft’s well-received Surface Headphones are once again $100 off.The headphones, which are appealing especially to developers and other office workers who want to ...

CES 2019 is kicking off next week and we can expect to see what companies have in stock for us at the biggest tech convention of the year. While CES is still undergoing the final preparation stages, ...

It seems everything is coming up roses for Satya Nadella’s Microsoft. After topping Apple to become the most valuable company in the world, the company has come on top of another rating of 890 compan...

It looks like Amazon may soon release its official Amazon Music app for Windows 10 devices in Microsoft Store. The Amazon Music app was spotted in Microsoft Store today and as per the listing it will be available only for x86 PCs.The official Amazon Music app is now available for download from Microsoft Store in the US, UK, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain and Japan. And this app can be downloaded only on x86 PCs for now.Using this app, you will be able to enjoy music from Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, Amazon My Music and the music you have stored locally on your PC.Amazon Music Unlimited:Choose from tens of millions of songs, thousands of curated playlists and stations, and get...

It looks like Amazon may soon release its official Amazon Music app for Windows 10 devices in Microsoft Store. The Amazon Music app was spotted in Microsoft Store today and as per the listing it will be available only for x86 PCs. Using this app, you will be able to enjoy music from Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, Amazon My Music and the music you have stored locally on your PC.Amazon Music Unlimited:Choose from tens of millions of songs, thousands of curated playlists and stations, and get personalized recommendationsStream weekly new releases from today’s most popular artistsExclusive Prime member pricingPrime Music:Enjoy a curated catalog of two million songs, playlists, and stations...

Amazon’s Echo Look companion app –is getting updates from Amazon to improve voice support and more.With the Echo Look’s new update users can organise their clothing with the Collections tool. You can tag them according to options like colour, or even occasion. Whether users would want to put in the time to do this, of course, is another matter.Amazon seems to have taken this into consideration, adding a feature that automatically curates your catalogued clothes into themed Collections like weather, so you don’t have to.The firm is also adding in support for Vogue and GQ content. You’ll be able to see articles from Vogue and GQ in the app’s home screenfor those times you’re lost on what outfi...

To close out the first month of 2018, Amazon is discounting dozens of video games for regular customers, though some are only available for Amazon Prime members. While this sale includes everything from 3DS games to PlayStation 4 games, we’ll just list some of the best Xbox deals you can find below (via DualShockers). Many of these titles are being offered for a discount of 50% off or more. These games range from immersive sims to action-adventures and everything in between. The aforementioned titles are just a short list of some of the best Xbox One game deals you can find in the sale right now. If you happen to be interested in other platforms like the Nintendo Switch, 3DS, PC, or PlaySta...

The success of the Amazon Echo took the company a bit by surprise, but since then Amazon has not sat on their laurels and is rumoured to currently have up to 5000 staff working on their digital assistant ecosystem. The latest fruits of their labour is the “Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit,” which would allow the smart assistant to be used in Inteet of Things solutions such as microwave ovens, headphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, other audio devices. Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit is a more lightweight alteative to Amazon’s earlierAVS Device SDK, offering companies a more “lightweight method to build on-the-go products,” explains Amazon. It works via a Bluetooth coection with your phone rather ...

In August 2017 Microsoft and Amazon aounced that the Amazon Alexa voice assistant will soon offer a Cortana skill, allowing Echo owners to access information which is only available via Microsoft’s own voice assistant service. Users will be able to say“Alexa, Open Cortana” followed by their command such as “When is the next budget review” which is only available to Microsoft’s AI. The service will also work vice versa, allowing Cortana users to access Alexa skills. The integration was supposed to arrive in 2017, but it appears that the two companies missed the deadline. Thurrott.com chased them up and asked for a comment regarding the delay. While neither company committed to a specific dat...

After making changes to its sexual harassment policies a few days ago, it seems like Microsoft is back in the news for sexism, this time though things aren’t looking to great for the tech giant. According to a recent report published by Newsweek, there are hundreds of emails sent from major tech firms in Seattle’s high tech alley to sex brothels and pimps over the past few years. Most of the emails were obtained during a 2015 sting operation, and Newsweek obtained numerous emails via a public records request to the King County Prosecutor’s Office. Of the emails obtained, 67 were sent from high-level Microsoft employee email accounts, 63 from Amazon employee accounts, and many others from com...

2017 was a great year for Tech Gadgets with some awesome products released this year. However, it was also the setting of agreat race is going on between companies as they launched similar products and asked the market to decide. One example is Google and Amazon battling it out with their smart speakers, and so far, consumers are the main wiers.A new report fromConsumer IntelligenceResearch Partners says that it is surprising to find that the total number of smart speakers sold by Amazon is way more than Google have sold. As of September 2017, Google has shipped 7 million Google Home products whereas Amazon has shipped almost 20 million Echo devices. That is three times more than Google. One...

Everything is becoming smart these days, from TVs, to sportswear, to speakers. Google with Google Home, Amazon and the Echo, and even Microsoft with its Cortana powered Harman Kardon Invoke. However, all of these speakers are marketed towards consumers, and some new players are looking to change that. Cam Urban, an ex-program manager with Microsoft Azure, Peng “Michael” Shao, an ex-leader on the cloud speech team at Amazon focused on the voice-activated technology that powers Alexa, and Le “Grace ” Huang, an ex-web developer at Amazon, came together and created Roxy, a customizable voice assistant and touch screen smart speaker for the hotel industry.Guests can use the voice-activated speake...

Likely in a way that is coected, in the same month as Jeff Bezos overtook Bill Gates as the richest person in the world Amazon also surpassedthe brand value of Microsoft, according to Kantar’s Brandz survey.Amazon moved from 4th place to 3rd by gr...

Last month, Amazon started taking pre-orders for Xbox One X Standard Edition and they sold out their initial stock in just few days. Today, they have again started taking pre-orders for Xbox One X in the US. Order it soon before it gets sold out agai...

Smart speakers are very often shared devices, which limits the services they can provide without mixing up everyone’s data and appointments.The solution, for these mostly blind devices, has been voice recognition, first seen on the Google Home, and today available on Amazon’s Echo range of smart speakers.Via the Amazon Alexa app housemates can now set up voice recognition using the Echo, Echo Dot,...

Up till now Amazon’s Echo voice assistants were the perfect servant – they did not speak until they were spoken to first.This is about to change, as Amazon is letting some developers test out the ability to send sound and light-based notifications to your Amazon Echo.Amazon has just releasedAmazon Alexa Notifications to a select group of developers. Aounced as part of theAlexa Voice Service (A...

Up till now Amazon’s Echo voice assistants were the perfect servant – they did not speak until they were spoken to first.This is about to change, as Amazon is letting some developers test out the ability to send sound and light-based notifications to your Amazon Echo.Amazon has just releasedAmazon Alexa Notifications to a select group of developers. Aounced as part of theAlexa Voice Service (A...

Amazon has a massive hardware event yesterday where they aounced a slew of products seemingly covering every niche of the smart speaker world.That does make it somewhat difficult to remember that a Microsoft-powered smart speaker has been aounced aounced as far back as December 2016, but the arrival of new glamour shots of the device, likely from the Windows Store, suggests the device will i...