Since YouTube Music, Google Assistant, and Google Home hardware are all owned by the same company, you’d think making them all play nice together would be a no-brainer. However, Google has the peculiar habit of taking quite a while before integration within all its systems works smoothly. It also has a peculiar habit of not telling anyone when it finally does institute that integration.Case in point: YouTube Music and Google Home hardware. Previously, users of the Google Play Music replacement service could integrate with Google Home — assuming they lived in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, or Mexico. Any other country and integration wouldn’t be possible. Now though, Google has officially updated that list to be much more comprehensive. As of today, here are the countries where the integration of YouTube Music and Google Home hardware is possible: United States United Kingdom Australia Mexico Canada Denmark France Germany Italy Japan Netherlands … [Read more...] about More countries can now integrate YouTube Music with Google Home
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Google Wifi can now cover homes in 21 countries
When we reviewed Google Wifi in 2016, we called it "the best way to blanket your entire home with Wi-Fi." Starting Tuesday, more countries will get to take advantage of Google's fast, user-friendly mesh Wi-Fi system. After expanding to Spain and Austria last week, Google Wifi is launching in the Philippines, Italy, and Portugal on Tuesday. Google Wifi helped popularize mesh Wi-Fi systems, which use overlapping signals from multiple access points to blanket a large home in Wi-Fi, instead of relying on a single router to complete the same task. Now Playing: Watch this: The Google Wifi is the best home mesh system yet 2:52 With five new countries over the past two weeks, Google Wifi is now available in 21 countries, making it one of the widest-reaching Google hardware products, second only to the Google Chromecast streaming device. In the US, Google Wifi costs $300 for a three-pack of access points you can place throughout your home for even coverage. You can expand your … [Read more...] about Google Wifi can now cover homes in 21 countries
Google Prepares Google Home Multi-Language Support For Multiple Markets
Jun 11, 3:44 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Technology By Corazon Victorino 06/11/18 AT 3:08 AM Google is planning to bring support for more languages to its Google Assistant AI, so that its Google Home speaker could appeal to more consumers. Digitimes Research reported late last week that Google is planning to push sales of its Google Home speakers to more markets this 2018. With this in mind, the search engine giant is aiming to bring support for up to 30 languages to its voice assistant. Amazon’s Alexa only supports three languages at present. To take advantage of the situation, Google wants to enable Google Assistant to support up to 30 languages with the use of its deep research in multi-language and semantics. The company wants to realize this goal before the year 2018 ends. The broad multi-language support will help Google Home appeal to more people, especially now that Google is working … [Read more...] about Google Prepares Google Home Multi-Language Support For Multiple Markets
Google unveils Singapore online store, retails Home and Home Mini
Google is launching a Singapore version of its online store and bringing its range of smart speakers to the city-state.Available from April 20, the Google Home and Home Mini would be offered at local retail chains Challenger and Courts as well as telco StarHub, with which the US tech vendor previously partnered to resell its mesh networking system, Google Wifi.Speaking to local media, Google's vice president of product management Rishi Chandra underscored the company's commitment to its fledgling hardware business and the importance of voice in its attempts to design products that were "more natural". Integral to this also was artificial intelligence (AI), he said, pointing to ongoing efforts to smarten up its voice-powered personal assistant application, Google Assistant."We're seeing a transition from mobile-first world to AI-first world," Chandra said. "We're looking to reinvent all of our products to make it more nature and we think voice is going to be a big part of that. Voice … [Read more...] about Google unveils Singapore online store, retails Home and Home Mini
Razer and Lazada level up with launch of new digital game store in Singapore and sights set on Southeast Asia
The Razer Game Store officially launches in Singapore on Wednesday (Apr 11) and is set to expand into other Southeast Asian markets. Facebook/ Razer Gaming hardware company Razer just launched its first digital game store in Singapore on Wednesday (Apr 11), setting the stage for its maiden venture into video game e-commerce in region. The Razer Game Store is the brainchild of Razer’s latest partnership with Southeast Asian (SEA) e-commerce giant Lazada, which will host the digital store. Global marketing director for Razer Ian Tan said the company collaborated with Lazada to leverage on the diverse consumer behaviour of SEA markets. Lazada’s regional e-commerce expertise was also considered. Touted as “region-centric”, the store brings instant access to a treasure trove of games curated at local price points to video game fans across the region. “The Razer Game Store on Lazada is the only official Southeast Asia-centric source of original PC digital games … [Read more...] about Razer and Lazada level up with launch of new digital game store in Singapore and sights set on Southeast Asia