Press Releases

DTS Play-Fi announces wireless speakers to support Works with Amazon Alexa

DTS, a global provider in high-definition audio solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Xperi Corporation, is pleased to announce the first DTS Play-Fi®-enabled wireless speakers to support the Works with Amazon Alexa functionality. (more…)

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January 5, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Loyalty or lock-in? Most smart speaker users won’t budge from Amazon or Google

More than two thirds of current owners of Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers are planning to buy another smart speaker within the next six months, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. (more…)

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January 4, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

iExec, the cloud computing solution for blockchain developers / RLC

iExec is an innovative French startup which aims to ‘decentralise the cloud’, by creating a global cloud computing marketplace where anyone can rent out their processing power for profit. (more…)

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December 22, 2017

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Taoglas 2018 Predictions

Size matters, today more than ever.

As IoT and other consumer devices such as wearables shrink to meet a “right sized” form factor for a variety of applications, the size of the components that go inside increasingly becoming an issue for device manufacturers. Without sacrificing performance and spectral efficiency, antennas for these devices need to see a big leap forward to help meet the demand of next-generation devices. (more…)

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December 14, 2017

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Smart audio hardware revenues to exceed $10 billion by 2022, as audio brands challenge Amazon Echo

A new report by Juniper Research found that revenues from smart audio devices like the Amazon Echo and Sonos One will grow from an estimated $2.5 billion (€2.13 billion) in 2017 to over $10 billion (€8.52 billion) by 2022, as more audio brands integrate voice assistants into their devices. (more…)

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December 13, 2017

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Symantec selects Amazon Web Services to deliver cloud security to global customers

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that Symantec has chosen AWS as its strategic infrastructure provider for the vast majority of its cloud workloads, leveraging AWS’s infrastructure scale and maturity to deliver cloud security to its global customers. (more…)

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November 23, 2017

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Internet of Things: it’s time to safeguard our future

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are set to revolutionise the way we live, work and play. Everyday items in the home will be connected in unprecedented ways and tasks traditionally carried out by humans will be replaced by automation and robotics. (more…)

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November 16, 2017

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Global customer engagement spending by utilities is expected to exceed $5 billion in 2026

A new report from Navigant Research analyses the market for utility customer engagement solutions across the web, call center, billing, and outage notification segments, providing forecasts through 2026. (more…)

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November 13, 2017

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Amazon Echo & Google Home to reside in over 50% of US households by 2022, as multi-assistant devices take off

A new study from Juniper Research has found that smart speakers such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, and the Sonos One will be installed in over 70 million US households by 2022, reaching 55% of all homes. Total installed devices will exceed 175 million. (more…)

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November 9, 2017

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Arrow Electronics, Synaptics and NXP team to accelerate the development of Amazon Alexa-enabled smart home products

Arrow ElectronicsSynaptics Incorporated and NXP Semiconductors launched a variant of the Synaptics AudioSmart 2-Mic Development Kit for Amazon AVS that is supported by a commercially available NXP system-on-chip (SoC) application processor.

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October 27, 2017

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde