When Disney confirmed all the platforms on which you’ll be able to stream Disney+, there was a notable omission: Amazon’s Fire TV ecosystem. It seems the companies are tussling over terms for not just Disney+, but apps for the likes of ESPN+ and Disney Channel. Unfortunately, the service might be hamstrung on release day. Although […]
Amazon reinstated support for YouTube on its Fire TV platform in July, while Google enabled Amazon Prime video streaming through Chromecast devices. In the latest development, YouTube TV is available on Amazon’s Fire TV platform, meaning users can stream live television and use an unlimited cloud-based DVR. YouTube TV aims to replace traditional cable TV […]
Amazon is taking Alexa’s show on the road with its new Echo Buds, truly wireless headphones that pair with a connected smartphone and promise to offer the full Alexa experience. The Echo Buds definitely have noise cancellation over Apple Airpods. Airpods have none, whereas Amazon has partnered with Bose to borrow its active noise reduction […]
Amazon announced its first high-end smart speaker at its annual hardware event today, called the Echo Studio. The Studio was created with Amazon’s new Music HD streaming service in mind, which lets customers listen to lossless music. Developed largely for Amazon’s new premium streaming music service, the Echo Studio boasts five drivers including a tweeter, […]
Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple have all received letters requesting sensitive information, as well as over 400 questions from the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee about how their businesses achieved dominant positions in their respective industries. The formal request was made as part of an ongoing antitrust investigation into Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, also known […]
Amazon looks set to release a new Fire TV Cube and a host of new “Fire TV Edition” devices soon as well as what could be the first OLED Fire TV television set. Now-deleted posts on TechCrunch and CordCutters had the details, which have since made the rounds the BBC, and elsewhere. Reportedly, the new […]
Amazon has announced that it’ll be ending its practice of using customer tips to pay its Flex drivers’ wages, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times and emails sent out to drivers. The practice came under fire when it was revealed back in February that Amazon (along with other delivery services like Instacart […]
The Fulfillment by Amazon Donations program is aimed at third-party sellers who store their items in Amazon’s US and UK warehouses. CNBC reports that from September 1, the program will become the default option for goods selected for disposal, though it will be possible to opt-out. Prior to the introduction of the FBA Donations program, […]
Amazon has been testing its Scout delivery robots near its headquarters in Snohomish County, Washington, for a few months. Today, it announced that it’s expanding the program, and it’s set to start testing the robots in the Irvine, California, area on a larger scale. For those who don’t know, Scout is a small, six-wheeled vehicle […]
Amazon’s home security division Ring is reportedly coaching police on how to get people to hand over their surveillance footage without a warrant, according to Motherboard. Over the past month, multiple reports have emerged about the partnerships between police departments across the US and the Amazon security company, which produces a range of app-controlled home […]
Pressure from the EU over the issue of humans reviewing recordings from their respective digital assistants. While Apple and Google paused human review, Amazon has decided to offer a clearer, more comprehensive opt-out setting to Alexa users. Amazon already offered a much clearer set of privacy policies than either Google or Apple having set up […]
The EU’s Competition Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon to investigate whether the company is using sales data to gain an unfair advantage over smaller sellers on the Marketplace platform. The Commission says it will look into Amazon’s agreements with marketplace sellers, as well as how Amazon uses data to choose which […]
We’re halfway through the first day of Amazon’s Prime Day megasale, and on Monday afternoon the internet retailer revealed some of its best-selling items so far. It might not come as too much of a surprise to learn that Amazon’s own devices, which are heavily discounted during Prime Day, are proving massively popular. Thanks to […]
Amazon is reportedly working on a higher-end version of its Echo smart home speaker that would allow the company to better compete with similar products focusing on audio quality like Apple’s HomePod and speakers from Sonos. Amazon’s Lab126 research division has reportedly produced prototypes that are larger than the current Echo in order to pack […]
President Donald Trump called for a tariff on Chinese-produced goods back in May, and the Chinese government threatened to put a tariff on US goods in retaliation. At the G20 summit in Japan last week, Trump made interesting comments on partially reversing the Huawei ban, and a possible truce in the ongoing trade war. According to […]