The future of Cortana? Microsoft patent shows new advances in reading and summarizing emails Microsoft’s vision for Cortana continues to evolve, and according to a new patent, the next step for the digital assistant… Read More
Microsoft workers listen to some Skype calls and Cortana recordings, company admits in privacy update Microsoft today updated its privacy policies to disclose that employees and contractors are listening to audio from some Skype calls… Read More
Microsoft’s Cortana will soon disappear from the Johnson Controls smart thermostat via a software update Microsoft’s Cortana will soon be removed from the Johnson Controls GLAS smart thermostat, a device once thought to be a… Read More
Real estate giant JLL teams up with Google on new digital assistant app for office workers, challenging Alexa and Cortana JLL is one of the world’s top real estate companies, managing crown jewel buildings across the globe and helping some… Read More
Microsoft fell behind in the digital assistant race, and now it is trying to change the conversation Microsoft is embarking on what it calls the “next generation of intelligent assistant technologies” today, looking to move forward to… Read More
Microsoft gives up on Cortana as an Alexa rival, now views assistant as cross-platform skill Microsoft no longer views Cortana as a competitor to the Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa, and the priority has changed… Read More
Don’t count Cortana out: Study predicts Microsoft’s digital assistant will rival Amazon and Google in business use Cortana is getting serious traction in the enterprise world, according to a new study that predicts Microsoft’s digital assistant will… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa arrives on Windows 10 laptops for the first time this week via Acer devices Amazon’s Alexa is live on a Windows 10 laptop for the first time, making its debut on a pair of… Read More
Microsoft and Amazon show Alexa-Cortana integrations for first time Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa are finally talking, fulfilling a groundbreaking promise made last year to bring the rival digital… Read More
How Amazon aspires to transform business meetings using Alexa Amazon first announced Alexa for Business, the entrance of the company’s digital assistant into the enterprise world last year, and… Read More
Tech Moves: Microsoft vet heading new data-focused game publisher; Cortana under new management; and more There’s plenty of data in mobile technology and games, but the mobile games world struggles to translate it into insightful… Read More
Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant emerges as key battle of CES 2018 Last year’s big story at CES was the rise of Amazon Alexa as the voice assistant of choice in everything… Read More
