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• Amazon is turning Echo and Ring into transmitters on June 8

  Posted on May 24, 2021 at 01:02 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  You may not have been expecting this, but those nice little Echo speakers you bought to play music — as well as your Ring Cams, Video Doorbell Pros, Level door locks, etc. — will begin talking on June 8 to a gaggle of gadgets that may be up to a mile from your home or office.

  These always-on communications will not use Wi-Fi, although your speakers, security cameras, and so forth probably already connect with your Wi-Fi router. Instead, Amazon has built a new capability into devices that the corporation may have sold to you as long ago as 2018.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.19.0 (2021-05-24).

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• Amazon Echo hits $99

  Posted on August 20, 2017 at 06:49 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  No doubt Amazon is getting ready to launch the Echo 2 (or Amazon Echo Creators Update Pro for Workstations, North American Fall Edition = AECUPFWNAFE, in Microsoft nomenclature).

  That said, I’ve never seen a cheaper Echo. It’s the whole thing. $99.

  I use my Echo and Dot constantly as an intercom, and frequently for all sorts of other things.

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