Smart speakers taking off in Canada

TORONTO – Expect a lot of Christmas wrapping to be torn from boxes containing smart home speakers this year, says Toronto’s Solutions Research Group.The company benchmarked the devices for the first time this year in its ongoing Digital Life Canada research series and found that 7% of online Canadian homes already have one (almost a million homes) “but based on a strong interest levels and price points leading up to Christmas, SRG expects this number will more than double by early 2019,” says the company.Despite the uptick, penetration of the units in Canada lag the U.S., where it’s estimated the...