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Amazon's Alexa heads to the workplace

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Amazon suggests its smart assistant can be used to order more printer paper among other tasks The Alexa voice assistant has been t:Amazon's remarkable runaway hit this past year. And as competitors such as t:Google and Apple try to catch up in the home, Amazon is pushing into a new market with t:Alexa for Business. Office workers  will be able to use the firm's Echo smart speakers  to set up meetings with colleagues, book conference rooms and other basic tasks. But the critical question isn't whether the technology works, but whether people will trust it in a business setting. "Without a doubt privacy and security is the number one issue," said Geoff Blaber, analyst at t:CCS Insight. "Arguably that’s more important than the functionality." Video conferencing specialist Polycom now allows chats to be triggered by a voice command Companies will undoubtedly be cautious about putting Alexa into meeting rooms and offices where sensitiv

Get Alexa Site Ranking Widget here

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Alexa.com  is a site which provides traffic details and ranks websites all over the internet. The ranking is based on various sources which the site collects, with the main source being the visiting trend of users of Alexa toolbar. You can check your site's Alexa ranking at the website for free. The site also provides a widget for site owners and bloggers like me, there are three kinds of widgets available: 1. Alexa Traffic graph - Shows a graph with selectable site stats in a time period with an option to compare to two other sites. Unfortunately it works only for the top 100,000 sites as seen below my site is not in the top 100,000. 2. Alexa Site Stats button - Shows the site rank and the number of links coming in. Available in three display formats - button, vertical banner and horizontal banner. I like the button version the best since its small, the other two banners are a waste of space. I found that the links-in figure is incorrect, it shows the same for all t:blog