Amazon Echo can now add events to Google Calendar

Amazon's Echo digital assistant is one of its first bona fide hardware successes since the debut of the Kindle, and now the company is extending the device's reach deeper into Google's territory

Now the helpful little voice-controlled helper can also add events to your Google Calendar

Simply saying, "Add an event to my calendar," or, for example, saying, "Add Jennifer's party to my calendar for Tuesday at 10 p.m." will now add those events via the Alexa software agent.

Details were revealed in an update to Amazon's website earlier this week Read more...