Domenic Venuto, The Weather Company | Samsung Developer Conference 2017
Domenic Venuto sits down with John Furrier at the Samsung Developer Conference at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA #SDC017 #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2018/01/22/amazons-smartphone-jinx-is-ai-voice-competitors-juju-sdc2017/ Amazon’s smartphone jinx is AI voice competitors’ juju One such integration with The Weather Co., which IBM Corp. acquired in 2015, shows what kind of everyday experiences integrated IoT can deliver. One of the reasons IBM acquired it is because “… we have this fantastic infrastructure, this IoT infrastructure ingesting large amounts of data, processing it, and then serving it back out to consumers at scale, globally,” said Domenic Venuto, general manager of the Consumer Division and Watson advertising, The Weather Channel, an IBM Business. “We’re one of the initial partners for the Made for Samsung program,” he told theCUBE. The Weather Channel app for Samsung Galaxy phones integrated with the calendar can alert travelers to get an early start based on weather and traffic conditions, for example. Perhaps Samsung’s and others’ early start in smartphones will help them compete with Alexa in streamlined consumer IoT. Watch the complete video interview with Domenic Venuto below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Samsung Developer Conference: