AMAZON AUSTRALIA SOFTWARE DROPPED EARLY!

IN BREAKING NEWS – a fluke discovery for any Australian users of Amazon Alexa.
If you have shipped an Amazon Echo device from the UK or USA, and have had to do some tricky set up to get it to work, chances are on the 24th of Jan, it stopped working.
Things like not recognising your account, even dropped off basic set up features like switching accounts and answering set up questions. It appeared to have been in factory restored mode, forgetting all of your settings and account.
Well, there’s a reason for that!
As of tonight, Amazon has pushed the Australian Software for Amazon Alexa. (whether or not it was testing or intending this change, remains to be confirmed)
Upon further inspection (and a lot of back and forth trying to figure out why our lights weren’t talking to echo), we discovered that the Amazon app (not available in Australian app stores YET), gave us a preview of what is to come.
Below is a list of all new Australian and New Zealand skills ready to go come on launch day, set to be the 1st of Feb (in 6 days’ time).

• 7 news
• AGL
• Air New Zealand
• Airtasker
• Amaysim
• Aussieoutages
• Australia-fact of the day
• CommSec
• Dominos Pizza
• Dimmi
• Energy Australia
• Fox FM Melbourne news
• Flight Centre
• Geonet NZ
• Hipages.com.au
• Hit FM Adelaide news
• Hit FM Brisbane news
• Hit FM Perth news
• Hoyts movies
• NAB
• New Zealand Herald news
• NextThere
• Optus
• Qantas
• REA Group
• Seek
• Sky News Australia
• Taste.com.au
• Telstra Smart home
• Ten News
• The Australian
• The Australian technology news
• The West Australian
• Today FM Sydney
• Uber Australia
• Village Cinemas
• Virgin Australia
• Westpac

Lastly, a massive feat for Austereo. Not only having Hit105 and sister stations all with skills but also Triple M Radio Stations, in particular, have been very busy working on TWO skills per major station. One for news, and one dedicated to sports news. This is a great skill to have for your morning briefing.

• Triple M news for Sydney
• Triple M news for Brisbane
• Triple M news for Melbourne
• Triple M news for Adelaide
• Triple M sport for Sydney
• Triple M sport for Brisbane
• Triple M sport for Melbourne
• Triple M sport for Adelaide

We are sure that there are many still to come, these are all the confirmed skills. There are many NON-BRANDED skills like games, facts and jokes ready to go as well.