There’s a lot of talking going on in the smartphone industry around Apple’s unique voice assistant Siri that was introduced with the iPhone 4S. Earlier this month, Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt said that the digital assistant could pose a ‘competitive threat’ to the company’s core search business. Earlier this week Microsoft’s chief strategy and [...]
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Microsoft claims TellMe voice assistant and Siri are similar [Video]
Expect a flood of of voice enabled apps with the changes to Nuance’s developer program
September 27, 2011
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Nuance, the company responsible for Dragon speech recognition applications for computers and iOS devices, has announced a new program for developers allowing them no-charge access to Dragon Voice technology. The result could be a possible avalanche of apps harnessing Nuance’s speech recognition power and text to speech technologies. Many have no doubt already experienced Nuance [...]
Dropbox allegedly declined Apple’s $800 million acquisition offer
September 11, 2011
According to a Business Insider report, the file sharing and storage service Dropbox, declined an $800 million acquisition offer from Apple. The extremely popular application has, for the time being, allegedly not accepted the deal and preferring to remain independent. According to MacRumors,the company has since raised a new round of funding at a $4 [...]
The Samsung vs. Apple fight moving to next stage
August 15, 2011
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Samsung Electronics is preparing to appeal a decision from a German court banning the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the European Union, pursuant to a suit filed by Apple which maintains that Samsung infringed on Apple’s design and technology in the Galaxy Tab, while Samsung has countersued, charging that Apple illegally “borrowed” from Samsung’s communication [...]
iPhone surpasses BlackBerry in the US
July 7, 2011
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Apple’s iPhone has leapfrogged RIM’s BlackBerry and grabbed the fourth place among handset manufacturer in the US. A comScore report, reveals that among the 76.8 million American that used a smartphone in the second quarter of the year, Apple’s iPhone users were 26.6 percent, which is 1.4 percent increase from the previous quarter. The Californian [...]
November 26, 2011
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