Smart Speaker

Amazon And Google Spar Over YouTube  
Amazon And Google Spar Over YouTube  
September 28, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

Amazon and Google are in a rare public fight over Amazon’s Echo Show device, which, as of Wednesday (Sept. 27), can no longer show YouTube...

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Sonos Is Reportedly Rolling Out Its Own Voice Activated Speaker
Sonos Is Reportedly Rolling Out Its Own Voice Activated Speaker
August 29, 2017  |  Merchant Innovation

Sonos, the technology and speaker company, is reportedly preparing to roll out a new voice-controlled speaker. According to a report citing a filing with the Federal...

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Report Finds Many Smart Speaker Owners Buy Additional Devices
Report Finds Many Smart Speaker Owners Buy Additional Devices
June 26, 2017  |  Amazon

A new report from Edison Research found that 42 percent of smart speaker owners have two or more devices — and that number is expected...

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Apple Finally Gets Into The Voice-Activated Speaker Game
Apple Finally Gets Into The Voice-Activated Speaker Game
June 01, 2017  |  Apple

Apple has started manufacturing a Siri-controlled smart speaker — and might even be ready to debut it at the company’s annual developer conference in June. Sources...

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Will Amazon’s Next-Gen Echo Have A Screen?
Will Amazon’s Next-Gen Echo Have A Screen?
May 05, 2017  |  Amazon

The rumor mill has been turning for months now about the prospects of Amazon‘s break-out smart speaker device Amazon Echo gaining a touchscreen in its...

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Amazon Video Echo Challenges Tablets
Amazon Video Echo Challenges Tablets
April 28, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

Following up its Echo Look announcement earlier this week, Amazon is already sparking rumors of another addition to the Echo family. The rumor mill is...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Google Home Gets Personal
Voice-Activated Tracker: Google Home Gets Personal
April 18, 2017  |  Retail

Ready or not, here they come … marketers, that is. Everyone’s itching to get on the smart speaker monetization train. Burger King — rather than wait...

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Google Home Activated By Burger King Ad
Google Home Activated By Burger King Ad
April 13, 2017  |  Intelligence of Things

Well, that didn’t take very long. In a recent TV spot, Burger King played on the growing number of Google Home smart speakers in American...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: The Last Landline
Voice-Activated Tracker: The Last Landline
March 10, 2017  |  Voice Activation

This edition of Voice-Activated Tracker starts off with the news that we’ve been waiting for. Just a few weeks ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced...

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