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Microsoft Tells Devs to Talk to the Bots

"Microsoft is in a race with Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Google's Google Now to provide virtual personal assistants," said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research Embracing 3rd-Party Developers...

Latest iOS Upgrade Drives Users Buggy

Kevin Krewell, an analyst withTirias Research, has the new iOS running on his iPhone and hasn't experienced any problems with it yet, he said However, "any time there's a major change in an operating system, there's always the risk of problems," he told TechNewsWorld...

Low-Cost Bundle Beckons Gamers to PlayStation VR

While attending the conference, Kevin Krewell, principal analyst atTirias Research, encountered long lines for PS VR and found out that all sessions with the headset had been booked. That might be a good sign for the VR headset "I suspect there's a lot of developer interest, w...

Amazon Throws Shade at Apple Defection Reports

Apple likely is working with multiple vendors to take advantage of the fierce competition in the cloud services space and leverage costs, said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst atTirias Research "AWS is the big dog in cloud services," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Google is li...

Google’s Loons to Glide Over India

"The problems with Facebook's Free Basics was that it violated the basic tenets of the Internet by violating net neutrality with prioritized sponsored content," said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research "While this may have made more business sense to Facebook, ...

Google’s Virtual Reality Tinkering May Get More Real

A standalone Google VR headset would be an interesting play, said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst atTirias Research. With theRift set at US$600 and the Vive expected to top that, there's a gulf between high-end VR experiences and the Cardboard and Gear VR types "It's a very g...

Report: Apple Moving Quickly to Sell New iPhone, iPad Models

Apple may be trying to appeal to a subset of customers who want to buy an Apple product but cannot afford to pay for it at current price points, according to Kevin Krewell, principal analyst atTirias Research "The new small iPhone to replace the iPhone 5s makes a lot of sense....

Yahoo May Have Found a Lifeline

Other telecom companies have benefited from ownership of content providers, noted Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research. Comcast is one example, having profited from its acquisition of NBC Universal "The Yahoo purchase would likely roll up under AOL," he said, "g...

Amazon Echo: Get Your Uber Rides, Pizza Pies and Hit Music Here

The Echo ordering option provides another level of convenience for Uber customers, said Kevin Krewell, an analyst at Tirias Research "This is another way Uber is trying to reduce the friction of calling an Uber -- no hands required," he told the E-Commerce Times....

Alphabet Leapfrogs Apple to Top of the Heap

Alphabet is aiming for more than short-term profitability, said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research. "The company has much more ambitious goals -- finding radical innovation that can create all new industries," he told the E-Commerce Times. "To find unconventi...

Report: Apple Has Assembled a Crack Team of VR and AR Experts

Although there's been no confirmation, there are "plenty of signs that Apple is looking into both augmented reality and virtual reality products," said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research. Apple likely will release a new virtual reality headset either later t...

Your Facebook Friends Are Really Not That Into You

Social networks encourage people to interact in ways they may not necessarily choose to offline, said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research. "Facebook encourages you to accept friend requests and there's social pressure [against rejecting] friend requests," he t...

Foxconn Makes $5.3B Bid for Sharp

Foxconn is looking at a way to control its own fate by controlling the branding of the products it could sell under Sharp, said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst atTirias Research "By buying Sharp, a well-known brand with respected products, Foxconn gains some measure of contro...

Foursquare Shifts Gears

"I see the move as driven by the new investors," said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research. "Foursquare has good location technology and needs to find another outlet for the tech, as competitors have stunted the growth of the original Foursquare app," he told t...

Google Sharpens Its Virtual Reality Focus

The Jump VR rig is just the start of something Google apparently now plans to pursue more aggressively, noted Kevin Krewell, tech analyst for Tiria Research. "It has the beginning of a content distribution strategy for streaming VR media and such," he told the E-Commerce Time...

Microsoft Puts Legacy IE Browsers Out to Pasture

Windows 10 users numbered more than 200 million, Microsoft reported earlier this month. Included in that count were consumers using XBox One consoles and Windows 10 mobile phones, which would exclude older versions of Internet Explorer, according to Tirias Research analyst Kevin Krewell...

HTC Shows Off Vive Pre’s Room-Sensing Camera

The key to the walk-around VR experience is keeping users in bounds, said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Researcher He tried out the previous edition of the Vive headset and its old system of staking out boundaries with its tracking system....

Facebook Takes On Yelp, Angie’s List

Recommendations are a natural extension of Facebook's service when you consider that the company is in the business of connecting people, said Kevin Krewell, principal analyst atTirias Research "Facebook is probably laying low on the addition as it is experimenting with the be...

Amazon Burns Through Previous Holiday Records

Savings and the convenience of free shipping drive most consumer decisions on Amazon membership, and the benefit to Apple's content business comes on the back end of that, observed Tirias Research analyst Kevin Krewell. "Amazon wants to be a major player in the electronic med...

California’s Proposed Rules Could Stop Google Car in Its Tracks

California is looking at the broader aspect of autonomous cars, beyond just Google, stated Kevin Krewell, principal analyst atTirias Research. There's going to be a lot more experimentation with the size, form factor and capabilities of autonomous autos "So they have to take i...

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