It even allows you to make calls and control compatible smart home devices, including lighting, home security and heating. You can have it in the kitchen to help show recipes and play music as you cook or keep it in the bedroom as a sophisticated alarm clock.

It's hard to promise what isn't there. Google Assistant: MIA. That's incredibly frustrating considering how good Google Assistant is, and how Samsung's Google Wear OS partnership seemed to be lining up specifically to allow things like Assistant.

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Revenues at the packaging business climbed by Ј1.5billion at constant currency levels in the year ending 30 April, with over 80 per cent of the rise attributed to higher selling prices for boxes, paper and recycling.

But Google has its own pair of fitness-tracking apps: Google Fit, and the recently acquired Fitbit. Google Fit apps can be loaded onto the Watch 4 for tracking alongside Samsung Health, but Samsung still expects your data to flow through Samsung Health as well. Fitbit doesn't have any Wear OS apps yet, but is expected to have some later this year...even so, there won't be a chance of having Fitbit's full tracking capabilities running on this watch anytime soon.



Other Western internet companies, including Microsoft's LinkedIn, Yahoo and Airbnb Inc have cut services in or retreated completely from China in recent months, amid government efforts to tighten control over online content and new laws targeting data sharing and customer privacy.

"We remain committed to our customers in China. As a global business, we periodically evaluate our offerings and make adjustments, wherever we operate," a spokesperson for Amazon Books said in an emailed statement.

The developer East Thames Group confirmed it had removed the wording from its website, saying: 'We did this because the copy was categorically incorrect - East Thames does not have a policy of excluding overseas residents from purchasing homes through private sale. Its presence on the website was a mistake and was the result of our creative agency misinterpreting our commitment to the Mayoral Concordat.' 





SHANGHAI, June 2 (Reuters) - Amazon.com said it will stop supplying retailers in China with its Kindle e-readers from Thursday and will shut its Kindle e-bookstore there next year, in the latest pullback by a U.S.
tech firm from the restrictive Chinese market.

Chief executive Miles Roberts said the firm's impressive performance came against 'another year of volatile trading conditions where we have worked through the tail-end of the pandemic and, more recently, the tragic events of the Russian invasion of Ukraine'.

Amazon sellers also reported they were unable to log into Seller Central, an internal website used to manage customer orders, according to The outage came during the company's critical holiday shopping season and could potentially create lasting log-jams at a time when there is already a critical crunch on the supply chain.

The report detailed how the Kindle business was one it had sought to expand in China, and cited an internal 2018 Amazon briefing document that said by the end of 2017, China had become Kindle's largest global market, "accounting for 40%+ of our world device sales volume".

It's not always as lightning-quick as the latest Apple Watch, but it still feels great. Battery life: Two days (or less)
The Galaxy Watch 4 feels very fast, Amazon Books and loads apps faster than any Android watch I can remember. The watch's new chipset seems to be a very good sign of where other Google watches could go as far as feeling more responsive.



Google Assistant should be coming sometime, I think, but it's unclear. Instead, you're stuck with Bixby as the only assistant for now. Hi, Bixby
As I said earlier: Google's excellent voice-based Assistant isn't on the Galaxy Watch 4. — Scott Stein (@jetscott) August 13, 2021

DS Smith's largest customers include Amazon, one of the most notable beneficiaries of the pandemic-induced boom in online retail, as well as supermarket chain Tesco, which renewed its partnership with the group last October.

DownDetector , a site that monitors online outages, shows North America, parts of Europe and Asia were all experiencing issues Amazon went down across the globe, frustrating thousands of users who are trying to purchase Christmas gifts.

Three delivery service partners said at 2pm ET that an Amazon app used to communicate with delivery drivers and track packages is down. This left vans that were supposed to deliver parcels sitting idle with no communication from the company, according to Bloomberg.

The company's pre-tax profits also plunged by 37 per cent due to soaring costs of making workplaces Covid-secure and supply chain constraints driving cost increases in recycling paper and old corrugated cases.