Amazon alerted users of its Alexa-powered devices that it will soon enable a potentially dangerous new service called Sidewalk. You may want to disable it.

BY Paul Thurrott with 36 Comments
Amazon alerted users of its Alexa-powered devices that it will soon enable a potentially dangerous new service called Sidewalk. You may want to disable it.
BY Paul Thurrott with 16 Comments
As it does every September, Amazon today unleashed another amazing collection of Alexa-powered smart home devices.
BY Paul Thurrott with 7 Comments
At its Alexa Live 2020 virtual event today, Amazon has announced dozens of new features for developers targeting the Alexa voice assistant.
BY Paul Thurrott with 36 Comments
In a long-overdue move, Amazon, Apple, Google, and others are partnering on a standard for the smart home industry.
BY Paul Thurrott with 1 Comment
The Fire TV Blaster is a Fire TV and Echo device add-on that brings Alexa capabilities to existing TVs and other entertainment devices.
BY Paul Thurrott with 23 Comments
New data from Canalys claims that Google smart speaker sales plummeted 40 percent year-over-year. What’s happening?
BY Paul Thurrott with 36 Comments
Each year, Amazon announces a tsunami of new Alexa-powered products. And each year, Google counters with … what?
BY Paul Thurrott with 10 Comments
With antitrust regulators breathing down its neck, Amazon has extended an olive branch to other makers of digital personal assistants.
BY Paul Thurrott with 7 Comments
Fitbit today announced the Alexa-powered Versa 2 smartwatch, a more affordable Aria Air smart scale, and Fitbit Premium.
BY Paul Thurrott with 6 Comments
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.
BY Paul Thurrott with 8 Comments
First announced in September 2018 for new Echo smart speakers, Alexa Guard is now available on all Echo speakers.
BY Paul Thurrott with 9 Comments
Amazon released a new version of its Alexa app for Windows 10 that runs in the background and enables hands-free use.
BY Paul Thurrott with 3 Comments
Amazon today announced that its Alexa customers now have access to a free, ad-supported version of Amazon Music.
BY Paul Thurrott with 3 Comments
The market researchers at Canalys claim that the smart speaker installed base will top 200 million globally by the end of 2019.
BY Paul Thurrott with 11 Comments
According to a new report, Amazon plans to ship Alexa-powered wireless earbuds in late 2019 to take on Apple’s AirPods.
BY Paul Thurrott with 21 Comments
A new report says that smart speaker sales hit a new record in the holiday quarter of 2018, with 86.2 million units sold.
BY Paul Thurrott with 5 Comments
Amazon announced today that it is now possible for anyone to create new Alexa skills with no programming required using Alexa Skills Blueprints.
BY Paul Thurrott with 9 Comments
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.
BY Paul Thurrott with 41 Comments
There are over 100 million Amazon Alexa-powered devices out in the world. But there are ten times as many Google Assistant-powered devices.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 3 Comments
Amazon superpowers Alexa routines with new features, introduces better email integration, more.
BY Paul Thurrott with 29 Comments
Apple Music is coming to the Amazon Echo and other Alexa-powered smart devices, starting December 17.
BY Paul Thurrott with 16 Comments
Microsoft has brought Skype audio and video calling to the Alexa platform. And it works with all modern Alexa devices.
BY Paul Thurrott with 18 Comments
It's yet another not-so-subtle indication that Microsoft is pushing Cortana aside for Amazon's digital personal assistant
BY Mehedi Hassan with 5 Comments
The launch of the Skype integration on Amazon's Echo devices seems to be right around the corner.
BY Paul Thurrott with 2 Comments
Amazon is now pushing its less well-known Alexa for Business offering to third-party Alexa-compatible devices.
BY Paul Thurrott with 32 Comments
I needed a few days to decompress after Amazon's massive set of announcements on Thursday. There is so much going on here.
BY Paul Thurrott with 22 Comments
Today, Amazon announced numerous new smart home products, among them a smart display that will include Skype video call support. Oops.