Amazon’s In-Skill Purchasing for Alexa Opens Monetization for Devs Nick Kolakowski, May 10, 2018 3 min read If tech companies want to grow extensive developer ecosystems around their respective digital-assistant platforms,...
Alexa Skill Blueprints Opens Digital Assistant Coding to More People Nick Kolakowski, April 23, 2018 2 min read Amazon’s relentless drive to transform its Alexa digital assistant into a full-on programming platform continues,...
If You Want an A.I. Job, Go with Siri or Alexa Nate Swanner, April 4, 2018 6 min read When it comes to artificial intelligence (A.I.), three major players exist in the consumer space: Google, Apple, and...
Amazon Continues to Lead the Smart Speaker Market Nick Kolakowski, April 2, 2018 3 min read Voice-activated digital assistants and “smart speakers” continue to dominate the consumer sphere; if you’re an...
Alexa Introduces New Skill, ‘Kids,’ That Devs Can Monetize Nick Kolakowski, March 1, 2018 2 min read Over the past year, Amazon expanded the categories of Alexa skills that developers can monetize, eventually reaching...
Siri Might Just Be Smarter Than Alexa: Report Nate Swanner, January 11, 2018 4 min read While digital artificial intelligence (A.I.) assistants are still (mostly) dumb, new research shows that Siri has...
Facebook Portal to Challenge Echo Show: Report Nate Swanner, January 10, 2018 5 min read Facebook Portal said to challenge the Amazon Echo – but why? Facebook is set to enter the home hub market,...
Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant Move to Dominate CES Nick Kolakowski, January 9, 2018 3 min read At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the emphasis is on artificial intelligence (A.I.) and...
Which Digital Assistant Will Fail Next Year? Nick Kolakowski, January 5, 2018 4 min read Tech firms (and more than a few independent developers) have embraced voice-activated digital assistants as the way...
More Americans Embracing Voice-Activated Digital Assistants Nick Kolakowski, January 2, 2018 2 min read New data from the Pew Research Center suggests that 46 percent of U.S. adults rely on voice-controlled digital...
