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Amazon Echo range now on-sale for Father’s Day with Echo Plus reduced to $149...
Amazon Australia has just announced a Father's Day sale until 5th September midnight on their Amazon Echo range, with their top-of-the-line Echo Plus speaker on sale for $149 ($80 off), the lowest price since Prime...
Nickelodeon launch The SpongeBob Challenge skill for Amazon’s Alexa into Australia
Amazon Alexa has a massive amount of "skills" that allow users to interact and get information from Alexa. Unfortunately many of the skills are geoblocked from our shores, even though we can now...
Australian Audible users can now listen to audio-books with Alexa
Whether relaxing, cooking, or cleaning, Aussies and Kiwis can now listen to even more of their favourite audiobooks throughout their day…simply by using their voice.
Starting today, Audible.com.au members can access their Audible library on Alexa. Here’s...
Amazon opening a new fulfilment site in Sydney
Amazon are a behemoth that is for sure but only arrived with their online shopping store in Australia last year. At that early stage they had only one fulfilment centre for the entire...
Google poach Amazon Alexa’s head researcher
AI and the application of it within digital assistants is the current frontier that many companies are fighting. At the head of the pack, by a substantial amount, is Google with Google Assistant...
Ring purchased by Amazon for over a lazy billion dollars
Ring are one of the most popular video doorbell makers on the market and have recently expanded their product line into other home security products. Today it has been revealed that Amazon have...
Hey Alexa, what’s my journey look like? Transport for NSW adds support for Amazon’s...
Transport for NSW has announced that it has added support for Amazon’s cloud-based voice service - Alexa - to provide real time train, ferry and light rail arrival information.
Transport for NSW's skill for Alexa...
Amazon Alexa Skills – what skills are available here in Australia
Amazon Alexa has finally launched in Australia this week, with consumers now able to purchase Amazon’s Echo, Echo Dot and Echo Plus either through the internet shopping giant directly or through local bricks and...
Amazon Echo quietly goes on sale in Australia from $49
Amazon may only recently have launched (properly) into Australia, but that's not all, with the company quietly announcing overnight that it's bringing the Echo family of smart devices to Australia from .. well .....
The Grand Tour Season 2 starts today on Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video hosted a preview event for The Grand Tour season 2 last night in Sydney. We were fortunate to be invited along to check out the first episode along with a bevy...
Amazon Echo and Alexa devices officially coming to Australia in early 2018
Amazon Alexa is one of the more mature digital voice assistants available and finally it is officially making it's way Downunder.
Amazon announced yesterday that they were expanding the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and the...
Amazon launching in Australia this Thursday, 23rd November
Speculation has been rife for some time firstly over whether Amazon would come here and secondly (after the first was confirmed) when it would launch. New information is now suggesting that this coming Thursday...
Sonos will be launching Alexa-enabled and “additional voice assistants” speakers
First there was Amazon's Alexa and it's speakers and then along came Google Home which built upon this and included a better speaker. Now there is even more competition with Apple's upcoming HomePod...
[Report] Facebook is working on a video chat device
It would seem that Facebook is working on a video chat device for your home from its experimental projects team housed in 'Building 8' at their head office inCalifornia according to a report from...
Amazon officially launches Echo Show – Alexa’s touch screen bigger brother
Amazon has launched the Echo Show which to is probably best described as Alexa powered Echo's touch screen bigger brother.
The Echo Show comes with a front facing 7" touchscreen display with integrated 5MP camera...