Google has finally added multi-room audio functionality to its video-based Chromecast, Google Home, and Smart Display devices


BY Paul Thurrott with 5 Comments
Google has finally added multi-room audio functionality to its video-based Chromecast, Google Home, and Smart Display devices
BY Paul Thurrott with 5 Comments
I really like Google's Smart Display platform, but a recent functional addition really puts it over the top.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 7 Comments
Google will soon reveal its own smart display powered by Assistant.
BY Paul Thurrott with 9 Comments
While Google's plans for new Pixel phones and Pixelbook Chromebooks have leaked repeatedly, this one, I think, is new.
BY Paul Thurrott with 11 Comments
Two new reports point to an inevitable conclusion: Google could overtake Amazon in the smart speaker market as soon as this year.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 0 Comments
Google launches two new music streaming service for Home and Smart Displays.
BY Paul Thurrott with 6 Comments
Some of Google's hardware is on sale via the Google Store, and the prices match the lowest we've seen yet for this generation of devices.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 3 Comments
Google launches a new Google News experience on Assistant devices in the United States.
BY Paul Thurrott with 27 Comments
Amazon's Echo devices may still dominate the smart speaker market, but customers rarely use them to purchase goods from the e-retailer.
BY Paul Thurrott with 4 Comments
Google hasn't officially announced this yet, but it has added the ability to schedule custom routines for its Google Home speakers.
BY Paul Thurrott with 3 Comments
Google this week updated the software for its Chromecast devices to support a new Ambient Mode that displays when no content is being cast.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 3 Comments
Google Assistant is getting support for Continued Conversation on the Home, Home Max, and Home Mini speakers.
BY Paul Thurrott with 28 Comments
Anyone interested in smart home technologies will immediately run into a long list of issues. And it's hard to know where to start.
BY Paul Thurrott with 6 Comments
With little fanfare, Google has bumped the number of simultaneous queries and actions its Home smart speakers can handle at once.
BY Paul Thurrott with 13 Comments
A Google-centric blog has discovered evidence that the search giant will finally release its own podcasts app for Android.
BY Paul Thurrott with 36 Comments
Google smart speaker sales are growing over three times faster than those from Amazon, closing the gap in this critical market.
BY Paul Thurrott with 27 Comments
Google announced today that its Google Assistant is now compatible with over 5,000 smart devices, up 1,500 from January.
BY Paul Thurrott with 8 Comments
To date, Google's podcast strategy has amounted to adding podcast support to Google Play Music. That's changing.
BY Paul Thurrott with 6 Comments
Google's "other revenues" business, which includes G Suite, Pixel, Home, and Nest, barely grew-year over-year.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 6 Comments
Google now lets users of its Home smart speakers to connect to all Bluetooth speakers without needing a Chromecast.
BY Paul Thurrott with 41 Comments
A credible report explaining how Apple failed to capitalize on being first-to-market with Siri has triggered some fan fiction.
BY Paul Thurrott with 5 Comments
Routines represent the second-generation of the digital assistant era, where we move past simple command/response interactions.
BY Paul Thurrott with 21 Comments
Amazon's $1 billion purchase of smart home security firm Ring is big news, but it could result in a chilling new era of fragmentation.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 8 Comments
Google Assistant on smart speakers is getting updated with an improved alarm feature, ability to look up TV schedules, and more.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 29 Comments
You could soon be able to use Google Assistant with a custom hotword instead of the annoying Ok Google hotword. Yes, finally.
BY Paul Thurrott with 33 Comments
Ambient computing is the next major wave of personal computing, and smart speakers are how we get there.
BY Paul Thurrott with 33 Comments
Google Assistant now supports over one million actions, which are essentially things the Assistant can do.