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A smarter Siri and UWB make Apple’s HomePod mini a more competitive smart speaker

October 13, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

At an online press event Tuesday, Apple introduced its new line of iPhones which will support faster 5G networks. That’s nice, but a more interesting device to me was the new HomePod mini for the smart home as well as improvements to Siri. Starting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, digital assistant, Echo, google assistant, homekit, HomePod, HomePod mini, nest, Siri, smart home, smart speakers

Why I’m not sold on the Amazon-led Voice Interoperability Initiative

October 2, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

Last week, Amazon made a big splash in the digital assistant space introducting its Voice Interoperability Initiative. The effort is backed by more than 30 companies and aims to build "voice services that can work seamlessly with others, while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Echo, Apple, Bixby, google, google assistant, Google Home, HomePod, samsung, sonos, voice assistant

Podcast: How IoT will change your sales job

September 12, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week's show kicks off with the whimper after Apple failed to give us any exciting IoT news. We discuss the scraps Apple gave us, but move to Google's new Nest Hub Max and the future of local wake word recognition thanks to a new chip. We also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Afero, alexa, Amazon, Apple, best buy, Centralite, ECBM, google, HomePod, Sasmsara, SimpleCommands, Syntiant, Trend Micro

IoT news of the week for August 2, 2018

August 3, 2018 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

Graphic showing Internet of Things news

JBL Link View pre-orders begin: Following the recent release of Lenovo’s Smart Display, JBL now has its own Google Home entry, the Link View; pre-orders have begun at $249. The functionality is identical to that of Lenovo’s model; JBL even included … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: cryptocoins, google, HomePod, Honeywell, JBL, LoRa, Notion, Resideo, Siemens, Tencent, Travelers

GE slims down and Otis tries Alexa in elevators

August 2, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

This week on the show Kevin and I speculate what digital assets GE will sell and discuss the sad bankruptcy of French smart home company Sen.se. After hitting the sad news, we talked about the latest HomePod feature expected in iOS 12 and the fact … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Afero, Amazon, Apple, cloud, Control4, enterprise, google, HomePod, IFTTT, industrial internet, Lenovo, Machinon, Mother, Netgear, Otis Elevator, Schlage, Sen.se, Sierra Wireless, SmartThings, Wyze

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