Amazon’s first foray into smart home technology, the Dash button, is officially defunct, as the company announced it would discontinue the functionality of all existing buttons later this summer.

Thanks to the Internet, shopping has become increasingly convenient. Amazon and other Internet retailers have extended this convenience to household items, infringing on the usual territory of grocery ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chris Walton is a Target executive-turned reporter who covers retail. Amazon announced that it will kill its famed Dash Button, ...

Can shopping get any easier? The Amazon Dash Button brings one-touch ordering to hundreds of common household items. Image: Amazon.com. One of the promises of the Internet of Things is the automation ...

Amazon sold millions of these buttons, but they all become useless at the end of the month. Back in February, Amazon decided to end sales of Dash Buttons because no one uses them. Now it intends to ...

Amazon’s four-year dalliance with plastic “BUY! BUY! BUY!” buttons appears to finally be coming to a close. The Amazon Dash line of physical, Internet-connected buttons, which allowed customers to ...

Amazon has officially killed one of its more perplexing products: the Dash button. Literally just a single button next to a brand’s logo on a rounded bit of plastic, the Dash button was for people who ...

Designer Nathan Pryor has converted Amazon's "buy now" button into an easy way to donate to the American Civil Liberties Union whenever he feels the need. Luke Lancaster is an Associate Editor with ...

Amazon Dash buttons were the ultimate single purpose networked device; it really can’t get much simpler than a push button that sends a single message to a fixed endpoint. It was an experiment in ...

Amazon has just launched its Dash Buttons in the UK, a quick and brainless way of re-ordering your favourite, most-used items such as washing tablets – and even condoms. So what are they, how do they ...

Amazon amassed its vast fortune by letting people buy products with just a few simple keystrokes. Now, the online shopping giant appears to have figured out a way to ...

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