Blogs
Talking Points: Alexa Emergency Assist — What It Is, How Much It Costs, And How It Could Save Your Life
Amazon’s new smart home service has the potential to protect your home or even save a life provided that you pay for it
Amazon Echo
Blogs
Executive Insight: The Key To Smart Appliance Success Begins With Voice
Voice capabilities have only scratched the surface of what is possible
Product Spotlight
CI Take: Amazon Launches More Smart Products And Security Services
In Amazon’s latest product launch, it beefs up Ring with eero, takes voice commands local, wall mounts an Echo, and enhances its aging-in-place program
Retail
Amazon Prime Day 2021 Date Just Leaked — And There’s Two Of Them
Prime Day could be closer than you think
Product Spotlight
Amazon Developing Wall-Mounted Echo ‘Command Center’ For Your Entire Smart Home
Wall-mounted Echo would feature a touch screen for controlling other smart devices
Distributors
New Age Electronics Extends Latest Amazon Products To Retail Channel
Selection includes 4th generation Echo, Ring Video Doorbell line and more
Product Spotlight
All The New Amazon Products: Echo, Fire TV, Eero, Ring, Luna Gaming And More
Here's all the new Amazon products and services announced
Product Spotlight
Amazon Is Set To Launch New Echo And Alexa Devices On September 24
"Alexa, set a reminder"
Product Spotlight
How To Use Drop In With Your Amazon Echo, Dot or Amazon Show
Drop In is a great way to stay in touch with your family and friends - as long as they have a compatible Amazon...
Retailing
Amazon: Echo Devices Stream Apple Podcasts Now
Over 800,000 shows available by asking Alexa to play your favorite Apple podcast.
Keeping Current
Amazon Introduces Battery-Powered Amazon Echo Input Portable Speaker
It's exclusive to India right now but will land in other markets eventually
Product Spotlight
Here’s All 14 New Products Amazon Just Announced: Tom’s Guide Reports
Amazon dropped a ton of new devices
Home Automation
Amazon Winning The Voice Assistant War – But For How Long?
Google Assistant is hot on Alexa’s heels.
Home Automation
Amazon Moves Deeper Into White Goods With 1st Branded Appliance
Amazon is tightening its grip on smart home with new Alexa products and services.
news
China Watchdog Group: Amazon’s Gain Is Workers’ Pain
A U.S. watchdog group found infractions at Foxconn's Kindle factory.
Retail
Amazon Offering Amazin’ Deals For Mother’s Day
Amazon is discounting much of its proprietary tech for mom.
Retail
Amazon Adds Echo Dot For Kids, Keyless Deliveries To Cars
An extra $30 buys you a complimentary subscription service, a two-year warranty and a childproof Dot case.
Home Automation
Was Hillary Behind Alexa’s Outbursts?
Jimmy Kimmel suggests the former Secretary of State may be connected to a rash of creepy cackling.
Home Automation
Amazon Whirlwind: New Echo, Plus, Spot, Connect, Fire TV Take The Stage
Amazon introduced a spate of new Echo devices and Alexa features on Wednesday, clearly determined to not simply put an Echo in every home...
news
Amazon Show A Go For Echo Owners
Echo Show, Amazon’s first smart speaker with a touchscreen, is an object of desire among current Echo owners but merely rates a “meh” among...
Keeping Current
Amazon’s Next Echo Will Reportedly Be Shorter, Slimmer & More Apple HomePod-ish
While Apple was expected to discount its Alexa darlings for this year’s Prime Day, the slashing of the flagship Echo by 50 percent still...
Home Automation
Amazon Shows Us Another Echo, This One With Touchscreen
For the second time in two weeks Amazon this morning has introduced another variant to its market-leading Echo smart-speaker line. This time, the House...
Home Automation
Amazon Echo Controls 71% Of Smart-Speaker Biz: Report
A trio of new reports confirms what we kinda already know: that voice control is the happening new user interface, and that smart wireless...
Blogs
Evolution In Electronics: The Growth Of Amazon-Owned Products
In the run-up to Black Friday 2016 and throughout the peak holiday shopping season last year, Amazon heavily promoted its own line of electronics...
Audio
Amazon Adds Bluetooth Speaker Pairing To Echo
Amazon made no formal announcement, but after two years on the market the Amazon Echo can now stream audio to external Bluetooth speakers. Amazon...
Audio
8.2 Million Amazon Customers Have Purchased An Echo
Even without a formal presence at CES 2017 Amazon Echo was arguably the belle of the ball, and with good reason: In its two-plus short...
Home Automation
Room At Wynn’s Inn For Alexa
Guests at Steve Wynn’s Wynn Las Vegas casino may find themselves sharing a room with an unexpected guest next month. That’s when the hotel...
news
Amazon’s Private-Label Brand Is Gobbling Up Market Share
Amazon is successfully taking market share from established brands in several product categories, analysis from market-research firm 1010data purports. Using consumer spending data representing...
Home Automation
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...
IP Set-Top Boxes
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...
Accessories
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,...
Home Automation
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....
news
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...
Home Automation
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...
Home Automation
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...
Audio
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...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Alexa Kisses Big Ass Fans
Wi-Fi ceiling fans and LED lighting fixtures from Haiku Homes, a division of Big Ass Solutions, will join the growing number of home-automation products...
Audio
Sonos Trims Staff As It Redirects Resources To Voice Control & Paid Streaming
Sonos laid off an unspecified number of employees and is redirecting resources to bring voice control and enhanced streaming capabilities to its wireless multiroom-audio...
Home Automation
Amazon Welcomes Echo’s Little Siblings: Dot & Tap
Amazon is bringing the capabilities of its $170 Echo wireless speaker and personal digital assistant to two new products: the Tap and the Dot....