Amazon Alexa making appearance in $1000 Vuzix augmented reality smart glasses
Amazon won't be the first company to deploy its Alexa voice assistant in glasses, with Vuzix stepping up to the plate to do so in mid-2018.
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Amazon
Mike Wuerthele
As Apple's HomePod misses Christmas, Amazon Alexa tops App Store charts for first time
In a first for the app, Amazon Alexa has topped Apple's U.S. App Store charts, backing claims that the Echo Dot speaker was the top-selling item on Amazon.com during the holidays.
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Roger Fingas
Why Apple's Siri needs to become an 'ambient' ecosystem to compete against Amazon & Google
The HomePod — now due in 2018 — will mark Apple's first real attempt at making Siri an "ambient" voice assistant. Arguably, though, the company needs to push a lot harder if it wants people to choose Siri over alternatives from Amazon and Google.
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Home security camera company Blink bought out by Amazon
After fulfilling a $1 million crowd-funding campaign for a debut security camera, shipping a second, and announcing a third Blink has been bought by Amazon for undisclosed terms, likely dashing any hopes for HomeKit integration.
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Three Amazon video content development executives jump ship for fledgling Apple production effort
Apple is further growing its stable of video streaming executives, poaching three high-level staffers from Amazon with one who will retain focused on children's programming development.
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Amazon discontinues its iTunes Match competitor that stored up to 250,000 songs in the cloud
Users looking to consolidate all of their legacy music purchases in a single cloud-based service will have one less option come mid-January, as Amazon has announced it will discontinue its song matching and uploading capability.
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Neil Hughes
Apple TV 4K sells out at Amazon hours after launching
Customers hoping to get an Apple TV 4K before Christmas have one less option, as Amazon completely sold out of the set-top box only hours after it began sales of the device, reflecting years of demand that grew from a dispute between the two companies.
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Apple TV 4K sales resume at Amazon after two-year block
After a more than two year sales block on Apple's set-top media streamers because of "customer confusion," Amazon now has two "Sold by Amazon" listings for the Apple TV 4K.
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Amazon Prime Video is already the most popular Apple TV app at launch
After just a few days on the tvOS App Store, the Amazon Prime Video app for Apple TV is already the most popular download ever at launch, revealing just how pent-up demand was for the service.
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AppleInsider Staff
Mikey Campbell
Daniel Eran Dilger
