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Smart Cities Set to Go Worldwide by 2025 (ITProPortal)

Countries around the world are set to enjoy a major burst in connected technology as “smart cities” increasingly become the norm, new research has predicted. A new report ha... More

IBM, Maersk Form Joint Venture Applying Blockchain to Improve Global Trade, Digitize Supply Chains (SCN)

IBM has teamed up with the world's largest container shipping company, A.P. Moller-Maersk, to provide a new platform for conducting global trade using blockchain technology. The ai... More

Eight Trends that Will Define the Digital Assistant Wars in 2018 (Fast Company)

The Smart Display Wars Get Real - Amazon got a head start this year in moving Alexa from speakers to screens, first with the 7-inch Echo Show smart display, and then with the dimin... More

How AI and Copyright Would Work (TechCrunch)

Self-aware robots, androids or call-them-what-you-will have been part of science fiction almost from its beginnings. Recently in science reality, there’s been early, speculative ... More

Why You Need to Prepare for a Voice Search Revolution (Forbes)

In anticipation of the changes that will unfold in 2018, I recently wrote an article predicting the search engine optimization (SEO) trends that will be most important to address i... More

Amazon’s Latest Echos Show the Smart Home Space Hitting its Stride (TechCrunch)

Amazon’s Echo lineup got a refresh earlier this year that included a brand new version of its basic Echo, well as an Echo Plus with integrated smart home hub, and the stalwart Ec... More

DRVR Partners with Tata Communications to Revolutionize Asia’s First Smart Fleet Network (SCN)

DRVR has selected Tata Communications as its global IoT connectivity partner to help achieve its objective of making Asia’s vehicle fleets the smartest and most cost-efficient in... More

The Way Online Shopping Disrupted Retail, Blockchain is About to Do to Freight, Logistics (HuffPost)

This technology, and really the concept as a whole, is the epitomized opposite of how the world of big business operates. Nationwide and global companies, all the way down to small... More

How Adobe Launch Modernizes Tag Management on the Adobe Cloud Platform (Diginomica)

Think about this like an Android or an Apple ecosystem where anyone has access to developer APIs to build apps on top of these platforms. This is what Adobe wants to do with Launch... More

How Smart Speakers with Screens are Advancing Search (SEJ)

Amazon introduced Echo Show and its seven-inch touchscreen in June to allow Alexa to “show you things” like movie trailers, music lyrics, recipes and weather forecasts. The new... More

Can Artificial Intelligence Beat Musicians at Their Craft? (TNW)

Should musicians, whose job relies on the unpredictable and mysterious workings of human imagination, heed the warnings about artificial intelligence driving humans into unemployme... More

GarageBand Expands its Music-Making Palette (Engadget)

Making music on a phone or tablet is generally an unpleasant experience. It's easy enough to bang out a melody in a cute app like Bebot or whip up some controlled chaos in a soft s... More

Is Augmented Reality the Next Killer Smartphone App? (Morgan Stanley Blog)

When mobile game Pokémon GO launched in July 2016, it quickly became one of the most successful apps of all time, with more than 500 million downloads in the two months after its ... More

IBM, Zelle Partner for P2P Payments (SCN)

US bank-backed P2P payments app Zelle has teamed up with IBM to help bring the service to more financial institutions. Launched a year ago, several of America's biggest banks alrea... More

WhatsApp’s Live Location Feature Lets Friends Track Each Other in Real Time (VentureBeat)

WhatsApp has announced a notable new feature today, one that may prove popular with millions of security-conscious, nosy, and impatient people globally. Landing on both Android ... More

As Voice Has Its Moment, Amazon, Google, Apple are Giving Brands a Way Into the Conversation (Adweek)

For decades, listening to ‘the voice of the customer’ has been the Holy Grail for marketers. Now, thanks to technology, they can do it millions of times each day. According ... More

Here’s What You Need to Know About Voice AI, the Next Frontier of Brand Marketing (Adweek)

Soon enough, your breakfast bar could be your search bar. Your lamp could be how you shop for lightbulbs. Your Chevy or Ford might be your vehicle for finding a YouTube video, like... More

The Next Media Revolution Will Come from Driverless Cars (Wired UK)

Driverless cars are here to stay, whether they are Elon Musk’s tenuously-funded Teslas or mainstream manufacturers’ more staid visions. As the world’s road safety experts and... More

Amazon Opens Up Access to Developer Tools for Adding Alexa to Commercial Products (TechCrunch)

Amazon wants to make its virtual assistant Alexa available on more devices, instead of just its own hardware. To that end, the company today is broadly opening up access to develop... More

How Voice-Activation is Becoming the New ‘Touch’ (Geo Marketing)

The adoption rate of smart speakers with voice assistants grew 140 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to a survey from music streaming service Pandora and Edison Research. In ... More

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