Lenovo's Smart Clock Essential is a fresh breath of smart home air. The simple $49.95 smart clock from Lenovo excels at something perhaps long forgotten as devices mount more and more features to their value proposition, which is the ease ... Read more
The November 2019 system update for Xbox One consoles brings the new Xbox Action for Google Assistant, which joins the Xbox Skill for Alexa to allow Xbox One owners to control their console with voice commands.
The Microsoft Launcher might see faster and more uniformed development with Cortana's absence and the launcher possibly defaulting to a native assistant
Following the launch of the Xbox skill for Alexa and Cortana last Fall, the Redmond giant has just announced the availability of the Xbox Action for the Google Assistant.
Microsoft has published this week an interesting white paper about the usage of digital assistants in 2019, revealing that Cortana has a 19% usage share in the US.
Microsoft news recap is a weekly feature highlighting the top Microsoft news stories of the past week. Sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the read! SwiftKey on Android finally lets users remove the search bar with latest update Users ... Read more
Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged this week that the company's Cortana digital assistant should become a "skill" for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
The Smart Clock makes use of Google Assistant while the Smart Tab M10 and P10 use Amazon's Alexa assistant.
A leaked picture of a new "Digital Assistants" section in the Xbox One OS suggest that Cortana, Alexa and Google Assistant may soon be on the same level on the console.
As noted in a Business Insider graph with data from Stone Temple, Cortana is currently (and closely) trailing behind Google Assistant as the top virtual assistant. While the article points out that Siri replaced Bing with Google as its search ... Read more
Microsoft is building an assistant bot that will be able to compete with the recently announced Google Assistant bot.