Recent Amazon Alexa Stories

Compact

Standard

Grid

As it does every September, Amazon today unleashed another amazing collection of Alexa-powered smart home devices.

At its Alexa Live 2020 virtual event today, Amazon has announced dozens of new features for developers targeting the Alexa voice assistant.

In a long-overdue move, Amazon, Apple, Google, and others are partnering on a standard for the smart home industry.

The Fire TV Blaster is a Fire TV and Echo device add-on that brings Alexa capabilities to existing TVs and other entertainment devices.

New data from Canalys claims that Google smart speaker sales plummeted 40 percent year-over-year. What’s happening?

Each year, Amazon announces a tsunami of new Alexa-powered products. And each year, Google counters with … what?

With antitrust regulators breathing down its neck, Amazon has extended an olive branch to other makers of digital personal assistants.

Fitbit today announced the Alexa-powered Versa 2 smartwatch, a more affordable Aria Air smart scale, and Fitbit Premium.

Amazon today announced a smaller version of its Echo Show smart display that will retail for just $90 when it goes on sale in June.

First announced in September 2018 for new Echo smart speakers, Alexa Guard is now available on all Echo speakers.

Amazon released a new version of its Alexa app for Windows 10 that runs in the background and enables hands-free use.

Amazon today announced that its Alexa customers now have access to a free, ad-supported version of Amazon Music.

The market researchers at Canalys claim that the smart speaker installed base will top 200 million globally by the end of 2019.

According to a new report, Amazon plans to ship Alexa-powered wireless earbuds in late 2019 to take on Apple’s AirPods.

A new report says that smart speaker sales hit a new record in the holiday quarter of 2018, with 86.2 million units sold.

Amazon announced today that it is now possible for anyone to create new Alexa skills with no programming required using Alexa Skills Blueprints.

Amazon said this week that there are now well over 30 million active users of its Fire TV family of living room video streaming boxes.

There are over 100 million Amazon Alexa-powered devices out in the world. But there are ten times as many Google Assistant-powered devices.

Amazon superpowers Alexa routines with new features, introduces better email integration, more.

Apple Music is coming to the Amazon Echo and other Alexa-powered smart devices, starting December 17.

Microsoft has brought Skype audio and video calling to the Alexa platform. And it works with all modern Alexa devices.

It's yet another not-so-subtle indication that Microsoft is pushing Cortana aside for Amazon's digital personal assistant

The launch of the Skype integration on Amazon's Echo devices seems to be right around the corner.

Amazon is now pushing its less well-known Alexa for Business offering to third-party Alexa-compatible devices.

I needed a few days to decompress after Amazon's massive set of announcements on Thursday. There is so much going on here.

Today, Amazon announced numerous new smart home products, among them a smart display that will include Skype video call support. Oops.

Today, Amazon revealed that it is dramatically increasing the number of Alexa-powered smart home devices it sells.