Just about all of us have virtual personal assistants on our smartphones. Apple has Siri, Google has Google, Microsoft has Cortana and Amazon has Alexa. We ask them to do a variety of tasks from the ...

One of the great promises of the digital service economy is the affordability of assistants; on middle-income wages, we can now afford drivers and grocery shoppers--among other services. But, one of ...

(1) An individual who performs administrative functions for clients. See human virtual assistant. (2) A text-only chat line that provides help with a website. See chatbot. (3) An application that ...

For as "smart" as our phones are supposed to be, they're not very good at getting things done on our behalf. But that's about to change, according to Qualcomm. During its annual Snapdragon Summit, the ...

Samsung is allegedly working on its new virtual assistant called Sam. Unlike Bixby, the company's previous virtual assistant, this new version is a 3D (3-dimensional) character. Previously, Apple's ...

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is working on a virtual assistant that would eliminate the phone tree that customers now must navigate when they phone the company's contact centers. The technology is ...

Rebecca Newenham, 50, didn't want to return to the corporate world and became a virtual assistant. She expanded and now has 50 virtual assistants in Britain and Spain. This is how she grew her ...

On a recent weekday, I was stumped for ideas about what to make for dinner. So I opened my fridge, held the Camera Control button on my iPhone 16, snapped a photo and uploaded the image to ChatGPT and ...

Like many of us, [Zoltan Toth-Czifra] has completely embraced 21st century living. His home is awash in smart gadgets and dodads, from color changing light bulbs to Internet-connected cameras. But ...

Clients hire virtual assistants to tasks off their plates. VA’s support and sometimes run the back end of a client’s business so that the founder can concentrate on growth and high-level strategies.