During the keynote, Craig Federighi showed a slide
of speaker makers already on board to support AirPlay 2, either with new equipment or a firmware update to existing Wi - Fi equipped AirPlay speakers.
Not exact matches
The tech luminary began by criticizing Sonos, a
maker of wireless
speakers, which had pulled some ads from Facebook for a week.
Thanks to all the participants —
speakers, panelists, industry experts, farmers, food product
makers, buyers, sellers, investors, and more than 5,000 members
of the public — who presented, exhibited, did demos and conducted workshops on March 23 and 24 at Chicago's UIC Forum.
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of the decision -
makers who will determine how often future Coalition conferences are held, the best
speakers and topics, and much, much more.
Julie is currently a reporter and analyst for ABC / ESPN, contributor and writer for espnW, director
of her Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academies, motivational
speaker, proud mother
of two children, Isabel and Declan, and the best chocolate - chip pancake
maker in the entire universe (source: Izzy and Dec).
The
speakers» lineup parade a list
of globally - recognised thought leaders, organizational heads, tech advocates, success serialentrepreneurs, innovators, policy
makers and trend setters.
The Conference attracted 275 participants (including 70
speakers) from 47 countries, including research funders, administrators, university presidents, journal editors, policy
makers and leaders
of professional societies.
Shatzkin's blog addressing key digital strategic issues, The Shatzkin Files, has also gained a significant following among decision -
makers and innovators in the past two years, and his keynote speeches analyzing the future
of the trade make him a headlining
speaker in constant demand at conferences around the world.
The
speakers include: Barbara Schiffman, Hollywood script reader / story consultant; Leslie Budewitz, winner
of two Agatha awards for her mysteries and nonfiction; Kent Davis, children's and young adult author and game designer; Monica Poole, science fiction / fantasy author; film
makers David Blair and Adam Pittman; and literary agents Elizabeth Wales (Seattle) and Susanna Einstein (New York).
Colleen Graves, SLJ
Maker Workshop speaker and 2014 School Librarian of the Year Finalist, describes how her little middle school library maker space grew to encompass an inter-school catapult challenge, an international network, and the support and enthusiasm of teac
Maker Workshop
speaker and 2014 School Librarian
of the Year Finalist, describes how her little middle school library
maker space grew to encompass an inter-school catapult challenge, an international network, and the support and enthusiasm of teac
maker space grew to encompass an inter-school catapult challenge, an international network, and the support and enthusiasm
of teachers.
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Maker Spaces District
of Columbia Public Library chosen as site for the 2015 Arbuthnot Lecture Martin, Stark - Smith awarded Friends
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Compal Electronics, the world's second largest contract
maker of laptop computers, unveiled a sleek Android - based tablet with a 10 - inch touchscreen and a stereo
speaker it docked into.
Conference
speakers will include high - level industry decision
makers, among them global heads
of hotel chains, airlines, travel merchandising and distribution companies, as well as leading government and NGO figures and environmental experts.
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The GCAP conference welcomed international keynote
speakers Karla Zimonja and Steve Gaynor from The Fullbright Company USA,
makers of Gone Home and Tacoma, and attracted more than 1000 delegates.
The
makers of the Sim games realized that it's less grating to hear word - like utterances repeated a thousand times than it is to hear specific words with familiar intonations — the former mode
of speech just washes over you as you get a general sense
of the
speaker's mood.
Amongst our guest
speakers will be: Prof. John Milner, Courtauld Institute; Lutz Becker, Independent Art Historian; Xenia Vytuleva, Columbia University; Vladimir Shukhov, great - great - grandson
of the tower's original creator and an architect himself; Henry Milner,
maker of the Shabolovka Tower model.
In Britain he is also a highly regarded public
speaker and
maker of award - winning television documentaries.
Speakers, who are invited to share information on their individual experiences, include Marcus Dickey Horley, Curator
of Access Projects, Visitor Services Manager, Tate Modern; Anne Hornsby, audio describer, Mind's Eye; Anne McCarthy, Arts Officer, Mayo; Orla Moloney, Arts Council; Johanne Mullan, National Programmer, IMMA; Padraig Naughton, Director, Arts and Disability Ireland; Damien O'Connor, Disability Arts Coordinator, Mayo Arts Office; Sally O'Leary, Arts Officer, South Tipperary County Council; Loz Simpson, model
maker, Topografik, and Georgie Thompson, Assistant Curator: Collections, IMMA.
They have invited international
speakers, visionary thinkers and policy
makers from a range
of disciplines to ponder this matter.
Other
speakers included industry, academic and non-governmental representatives as well as senior energy policy
makers from Argentina and Mexico, the Energy Minister from the resource - rich Neuquen Province
of Argentina, and senior representatives from Natural Resources Canada and from the US Departments
of State and Energy.
We moved on to Regen's booth - you know, the
makers of the super sexy solar chargers for gadgets and
speakers.
One recent
speaker was Ari Kaplan, author
of «The Opportunity
Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career through Creative Networking and Business Development.»
These would prohibit leaflets, signs,
speakers, noise -
makers, etc. on public property sites and broad sections
of major Vancouver streets (including Broadway, Burrard, Cambie, Georgia, Dunsmuir, Hastings, Howe, Main, Pender, Seymour, Beatty, Davie, Granville, Hamilton and Robson Streets) designated Olympic corridors.
Sonos is a popular
maker of Wi - Fi enabled
speakers, based in Boston.
Marshall,
maker of some
of our favorite Bluetooth
speakers, has just announced that the updated line
of its
speakers will have Wi - Fi connectivity.
It does appear some hardware
makers are getting around this requirement however, as a recent device announcement from Harman Kardon appears to showcase some kind
of Cortana
speaker, and it's unclear at this time whether this
speaker has some kind
of screen.
While Amazon didn't have a splashy presence at the show — though there was a bizarrely large Echo
speaker in one hallway — the fact that so many gadget
makers were pledging to bake Alexa into their products became the dominant story
of CES.
The third is the
maker of a smart
speaker robot for the elderly called Elli - Q.
Microsoft has announced it is making its Cortana voice assistant AI available to third - party device
makers, with third - party developers also set to get access to the platform for integrating into their services on Cortana - powered devices.The company's approach is based on two software kits currently available for preview: A Skills Kit that allows developers to build apps that can be called up and controlled via Cortana using voice commands, and a Cortana Devices SDK, which enables third - party hardware manufacturers to bake in the voice - activated AI to new devices.Premium audio company Harman Kardon is set to become one
of the first device
makers to make use
of the SDK in a new wireless
speaker, set to debut early next year.
Sonos, famed
maker of high - quality
speakers and sound bars, is joining the smart
speaker race with the Sonos One, a device that'll support Amazon Alexa and include Google Assistant and Siri support down the road.
This new, inclusive approach represents a significant difference between Apple's new multiroom functionality and that
of industry - leading multiroom
speaker maker Sonos, which takes a top - down approach to its
speaker systems, requiring listeners to buy Sonos - branded
speakers to create their full - home
speaker setup.
John MacFarlane, the chief executive
of Sonos, another well - known device
maker, hinted in a blog post this year that Sonos was working on a way to play music through its
speakers using Alexa voice control.
The arrangement is not exclusive to Amazon, so Ikea can strike similar agreements with
makers of other smart
speakers like Google Home.
There's Triby, a portable
speaker; CoWatch, a smartwatch; and Pebble Core, a wireless wearable device by the
maker of the Pebble smartwatch.
While Amazon's Echo
speaker does support voice commands on some TV devices, such as Dish Hopper DVRs, this is a different kind
of integration that requires each device
maker to develop its own Alexa skill, and right now no such controls exist for Fire TV devices.
The
maker of the Echo - branded
speakers will have 70.6 percent
of all voice - enabled
speaker users in the U.S. this year — well ahead
of Google Home's 23.8 percent and other, smaller players like Lenovo, LG, Harmon Kardon, and Mattel, who combined only account for 5.6 percent
of users.
Each
of these
speakers is linked to its
maker's music service.
Apple is already late to this field, ceding ground to Amazon, Google and
speaker makers like Sonos, Sony and Lenovo (many
of which use Amazon's Alexa or Google Assistant).
Bluetooth
speaker maker Libratone has announced that beginning this fall, Zipp and Zipp Mini
speaker owners will be able to use their devices to invoke Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant as well as tap in to Apple's forthcoming AirPlay 2 protocol.The company said it will make a free firmware download available in the coming months that activates Alexa support in the wireless
speakers, which connect to Wi - Fi and have integrated microphones.Following the update, Zipp and Zipp Mini owners will be able to touch the button on the top
of the
speakers to ask Alexa for news, sports, traffic updates, and all the other things that can be done on Amazon's Echo range
of speakers, including controlling smart home devices.Libratone intends to add Apple AirPlay 2 support as soon as Apple
Instead
of being front - facing
speakers like every other phone
makers has done previously, you got a front + bottom - facing combo that supports Dolby Atmos sound powered by AKG & 40 % louder than on the Note 8.
Moto
Maker also gives you the option to add an inscription on the back cover, choose the colour
of the trim around the rather large Motorola logo, and choose the colour
of the
speaker accents up front.
The sound quality
of the Invoke is impressive and easy to adjust using the ring on top
of the
speaker or by voice command — which isn't surprising, given Harman Kardon's history
of being a high - end car / home / PC
speaker maker.
Now, Harman Kardon has revealed it'll be the first third - party device
maker to add Cortana, which is Microsoft's version
of a voice assistant, to a
speaker.
The
maker of high - end, connected
speakers announced today at a press event in New York City that Alexa - powered voice controls will arrive via a firmware update.
Apple's new $ 350
speaker symbolizes everything backward and compromising about the iPhone
maker's walled garden: the
speaker requires you have an iOS device to use it, and it demands an Apple Music account to make use
of Siri - powered voice control playback.
Google is releasing a new Assistant SDK that will let device
makers put the assistant on «
speakers, toys, drink - mixing robots, whatever crazy device you can think
of,» Huffman said.
Apple is also facing off against
makers of multi-room wireless
speaker systems made by the likes
of Sonos and great - sounding portable Bluetooth
speakers like Ultimate Ears» UE Megaboom, which retails at $ 299.
A report from Nikkei Asian Review indicates that electronics
maker Inventec Appliances, which is expected to begin shipping the HomePod smart
speaker before the end
of the year, will start with a fairly limited supply.
The technology has already shown up in a number
of other Amazon products, including Fire TV and the Tap battery - powered
speaker, while third - party device
makers have gradually been joining the party too.