by Mesq
Best Products of 2015: Home
The Amazon Echo started off as a Bluetooth speaker and voice-control assistant with a few smart-home tricks up her sleeve. The cylindrical device appeared most useful for finding out fast facts (“Hey Alexa, what's the weather like in Portland today?
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Ooma Enables Free Calling with Amazon Echo
LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ooma, Inc. (NYSE: OOMA), a leading smart business and home communications platform, now integrates with Amazon Echo and Amazon Alexa to provide free phone calls to Amazon Echo users and advanced …
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Samsung Smart Fridge Harmonizes With Amazon Echo's Alexa
In addition to the touchscreen, the fridge comes embedded with Amazon's Alexa voice capabilities and/or can pair with an existing Amazon Echo. The unit will be integrated with Samsung's SmartThings platform “later,” the company said, and can be …
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Why Amazon's Echo Device Is Good for Healthcare
Several companies, including AOL, Intuit and StubHub, have already begun work on products that will use Alexa, and the opening of the Alexa Skills Kit should be recognized as a gift to healthcare industries, too. One caregiver who reviewed the Echo …
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