This tech talk is on Home automation or home tech. We talk about the options and what we started with to make our home a tech haven. We have a few suggestions that are laid out, but we always want to speak to the laymen that may not be aware of any of the options out there. From Apple to Iris (Lowes)
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Amazon Echo new features, Products and "Whole Foods"
This episode of Women Tech talk, Alicia and I go over the new calling features of the existing Amazon Echo devices as well as throw our opinions on the two new products Amazon has introduced to the market before Google or Apple had a chance to introduce any improvements or products during their conferences (Google I/O and Apples WWDC). Amazons new products are the Echo Look a camera enabled device for fashion and the Echo Show that has a tablet size screen attached to it.
We also put our two cents into the "Whole Foods" acquisition and what does it mean to the grocery market in the future. Whole Foods Market was acquired by Amazon June 16, 2017 at 13.7 billion dollars
Voice activated personal assistants or intelligent personal assistant
This session we talk about the ever growing personal assistants trend. There are many out on the market but the 3 major companies that stand out are Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google assistant. Sadly I have to throw in Microsoft Cortana too. With our hands on these 3 items, we give our 4 cents to the discussion of what we see as the leading candidate with this growing voice activating trend.
Tech News I
This episode we talk about some tech news that has been floating around during this holiday season. Internet traffic, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We also get into the new DirectV now app that is coming out November 30th for $39 dollars for 100 channels. Sounds too good to be true right. Well, you know there's a catch