Articles about Panos Panay

Amazon’s new Alexa+ uses generative AI to personalize conversations and automate tasks

Amazon unveiled Alexa+, a new service that integrates generative AI natively into the company’s longtime voice assistant — promising free-flowing… Read More

This is (not) bananas: Amazon devices chief gives free Kindles to people stopping by HQ fruit stand

Move over, Oprah. Panos Panay is the new king of daytime giveaways. “You get a Kindle, and you get a… Read More

Hands-on with the new Kindle Colorsoft: Is Amazon’s color e-reader worth the premium price?

It’s the Kindle Paperwhite, except it’s in color. You can see book covers in color, make highlights in color, and… Read More

Podcast

Podcast: Amazon devices chief Panos Panay on the color Kindle, AI, and his first year on the job

Our guest on this special mid-week episode of the GeekWire Podcast is Panos Panay, Amazon’s senior vice president of Devices… Read More

Random thoughts on Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe

Note the little psychological trick that Amazon did (above) with the left bezel on the new Kindle Scribe. It’s now… Read More

Claude meets Alexa: Amazon will reportedly use Anthropic’s AI to help power its voice assistant

Amazon will make its Alexa voice assistant more conversational with help from Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence technology, Reuters reported Friday… Read More

Report details financial pressure on Amazon Alexa, confirms plans for paid tier and AI revamp

Internal Amazon metrics have created a rosy view of the impact from Alexa and Echo on the company’s revenue from… Read More

Amazon unveils new AI features in quest to make Alexa ‘superhuman’

It was tough, as usual, to keep up with the announcements coming out of Amazon’s fall Devices & Services event… Read More

Should Amazon be ‘pumped’ to land Panos Panay? A closer look at longtime Microsoft devices leader

Microsoft developed its first Surface tablet more than a decade ago under strict secrecy to give then-CEO Steve Ballmer the… Read More

Report: Departing Microsoft exec Panos Panay set to lead Amazon’s Alexa and Echo business

Amazon is expected to name Panos Panay, the longtime Microsoft Windows and Devices leader, as the new executive in charge… Read More

Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

UPDATE: Report: Departing Microsoft exec Panos Panay set to lead Amazon’s Alexa and Echo business Panos Panay, the Microsoft chief… Read More

Podcast

Microsoft releases preview of AI-powered Windows Copilot, aiming to change how people use PCs

For more than four decades, since the 1980s, pointing and clicking has been the primary method of using a personal… Read More

Microsoft brings iPhone photos to Windows 11 via Apple iCloud … will iMessage be next?

PC users will be able to access pictures from their iPhones via the Windows 11 Photos app through a new… Read More

Microsoft’s new heyday: PC ‘renaissance’ and cloud boom drive record revenue and employment

Microsoft surpassed $50 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, with profits of $18.8 billion, up 22%, in its… Read More

GeekWire Summit: Panos Panay, Microsoft’s chief product officer, to join our signature tech event

Panos Panay rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, most recently overseeing… Read More

Tech Moves: Leafly names CEO; early Amazon exec departs; Microsoft vet named DocuSign CTO; ex-Vicis CEO lands new gig; more

— Leafly General Counsel Yoko Miyashita will take over as chief executive officer from outgoing CEO Tim Leslie. Miyashita joined… Read More

Sonos names Microsoft product chief and Surface impresario Panos Panay to its board

Panos Panay’s well-known passion for technology apparently extends beyond computers and tablets to wireless home speakers. Microsoft’s chief product officer,… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft’s latest reorg; RealNetworks names new president; AWS execs depart

— Microsoft is bringing more of its Windows team under Chief Product Officer Panos Panay as part of another reorganization… Read More

Microsoft’s Surface surprise: $199 Earbuds coming in May, plus new Surface Headphones, Go 2, Book 3

Microsoft unveiled a refreshed lineup of Surface devices on Wednesday morning, and said it will release its delayed Surface Earbuds… Read More

No Neo in 2020: Microsoft pauses work on dual-screen device running Windows 10X

Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Neo device, running a special version of Windows 10, won’t be released this year as originally planned.… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft names Windows Insider leader; WA Lt. Gov. leaving to join Jesuits; Axon hires Amazon AI vet

— Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay announced Amanda Langowski as the new lead for the Windows Insider program, an… Read More

Microsoft brings Windows UX and Surface teams together under exec Panos Panay in latest reorg

Microsoft is embarking on a reorganization that will bring part of the Windows team under the purview of Panos Panay,… Read More

Did he swipe right? NFL quarterback shows he nose a unique way to use the Microsoft Surface

That’s snot the play we drew up! But, face it, there’s more than one way to swipe across the screen… Read More

Microsoft delays release of wireless Surface Earbuds until 2020 to ‘get all the details right’

Microsoft’s place in the battle of wireless earbud makers is going to be delayed a bit as the tech giant’s… Read More

Podcast

Microsoft’s new era unfolds: Tech giant looks to take the lead in new category of computing

Microsoft is back in the smartphone business with the unveiling of its new Surface Duo dual-screen folding device this week.… Read More

Microsoft unveils ‘Surface Neo’ hybrid folio laptop, and ‘Surface Duo’ dual-screen Android device

Wow, what the heck is this? Here’s everything Microsoft announced at its big Surface event, including a foldable smartphone That… Read More

Can Microsoft get smarter? Inside the tech giant’s massive bet on AI

Microsoft has so far released its artificial intelligence technologies largely through its well-known software platforms, such as the Cortana voice… Read More

Microsoft to release Surface Pro with LTE Advanced in December, looking to continue recent growth

Microsoft will begin shipping a new version of its Surface Pro tablet with LTE Advanced mobile connectivity for businesses in… Read More

Microsoft plans Surface unveiling at fall event in London, looking for its next hardware hit

Microsoft’s Panos Panay, who heads up the Microsoft Surface hardware line, is slated to deliver a keynote address at the… Read More

Microsoft unveils new Surface Pro and ‘fastest digital pen on the planet’

Microsoft just announced the next generation of its popular Surface Pro at an event in Shanghai. It’s the successor to… Read More