Amazon cancels its QVC-like shopping show ‘Style Code Live’
Amazon’s own take on a QVC-like home shopping experience, “Style Code Live,” has gone off the air. The live program,…
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Amazon rejects AI2’s Alexa skill voice-search engine. Will it build one?
Surprisingly, Amazon Alexa doesn’t have a good way to search for Alexa skills by voice. You can’t say that you…
Alexa adds support for reminders and named timers
One of Alexa’s more practical, everyday uses is setting timers – helpful when cooking, remembering to perform some task, or…
Amazon begins offering refunds for unauthorized in-app purchases
Were you one of the many parents surprised to find hundreds of dollars’ worth of Smurfberries charged to your card…
Amazon expands Amazon Channels to UK, Germany, taking aim at pay-TV users
The race to control the TV is on, and today comes some news out of Europe underscoring Amazon’s ambitions in that department. The…
Amazon begins rewarding top-performing Alexa Skill developers with direct payments
Amazon has quietly launched a new program that will directly pay developers building high-quality Alexa skills — the voice-activated apps for…