Google and Apple are not the only companies offering a digital personal assistant that can provide a range of functions and services by responding to a user’s voice. Amazon offers a similar assistant on devices like the Amazon Echo and Amazon Tap. Alexa could soon be coming to your wrist thanks to an Indiegogo campaign for the CoWatch. With a design philosophy […]
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Wearables among bestsellers for Amazon Canada’s record-breaking holiday season
Amazon Canada announced yesterday that it had a “record-breaking holiday season” with a record number of packages shipping from its warehouses over the past few weeks. Both tradtional watches and wearables were among its bestselling product categories this year. “We are thankful to our customers for making the 2015 holiday season a record-breaker for Amazon.ca,” said Alexandre Gagnon, Country Manager for […]
Amazon reveals Huawei Watch pricing
Huawei first unveiled its Huawei Watch back in early March at Mobile World Congress. Almost six months later, it has yet to hit the market although recent signs point to an immiment release finally. While pricing has yet to be announced, rumours suggested that Huawei would offer a number of variants with a range of price points. Amazon pre-order pages today […]
Amazon Canada launches Wearable Technology Store
Amazon launched its Wearable Technology store in the U.S. back in April 2014. As the name implies, it focuses on the “latest in wearable technology and research wearable devices including activity trackers, smart watches, wearable cameras and more.” While Amazon Canada has offered wearables for some time, it has lacked this dedicated department. The online retailer today remedied that with […]
Amazon launches two new Kindle e-readers
Amazon this week unveiled two new Kindle e-readers, the Kindle Voyage and an all-new Kindle. The former is billed as Amazon’s “most advanced e-reader ever” while the latter improves upon the entry-level model while remaining wallet-friendly. They are the company’s seventh generation of e-readers. The Kindle Voyage is the thinnest Kindle yet at 7.6 millimeters thick. Along with an improved […]
Buyers including Microsoft circling Cyanogen?
CyanogenMod is not only attracting the attention of users looking to customize their Android devices these days. From its early days as a custom ROM for the HTC Dream, it has established itself as one of the most popular aftermarket Android firmwares today. Its growing success led to Cyanogen becoming a commercial company backed by venture funding to the tune […]
Amazon unveils Fire Phone
As expected, Amazon today unveiled its first smartphone ever. Company CEO Jeff Bezos first talked quickly about Amazon’s Prime subscription service and how it now has “tens of millions” of customers. He also touched upon the fact that Amazon has now been in the hardware business for 10 years with the first Kindle e-reader taking 3 years to develop. It […]
Amazon Appstore coming to BlackBerry 10 with 240,000 apps
BlackBerry appears to have found a solution to one of the biggest complaints against BlackBerry 10, namely the lack of a large app ecosystem. It announced today that it is bringing the Amazon Appstore to its operating system with the launch of the BlackBerry 10.3 operating system this fall. In one fell swoop, BlackBerry will offer more than 240,000 new […]