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Two new reports point to an inevitable conclusion: Google could overtake Amazon in the smart speaker market as soon as this year.
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Amazon’s Echo devices may still dominate the smart speaker market, but customers rarely use them to purchase goods from the e-retailer.
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Amazon this week announced that it is bringing Echo Show capabilities to its Fire HD tablets, expanding its Alexa Everywhere strategy.
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Amazon (and hotels) now have the option to collect new forms of data from people. Continue reading With Echo in Hotel Rooms, Amazon Can Now Track Your Travel Habits
Anyone interested in smart home technologies will immediately run into a long list of issues. And it’s hard to know where to start.
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More bad news for Cortana: Amazon has made it easier than ever for all PC makers to bring Alexa-powered PCs to market.
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The country of Papua New Guinea is planning a month-long nationwide ban of Facebook, PornHub wants to keep your online activities more private, and Amazon Alexa forwards a married couple’s private conversation to a random contact.
All this and much muc… Continue reading Smashing Security #080: Country bans Facebook, eavesdropping Alexa, and PornHub VPN
It’s every Amazon Alexa owner’s worst nightmare – your private conversations not just being listened to, but shared with random contacts without your knowledge.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
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Acer announced this morning that it is the first to ship notebook PCs preinstalled with Amazon Alexa. It won’t be the last.
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Google smart speaker sales are growing over three times faster than those from Amazon, closing the gap in this critical market.
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