Rex Hammock |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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Via inquisitr.com, I learned that something called Yahoo! Glue has launched. According to Duncan Riley, Yahoo! says Glue was tested in India and was so successful, the U.S. version has been cranked up. I only mention this because last week I mentioned another product called Glue - watch this video [...]
Rex Hammock |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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The NYTimes is reporting that Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company's search software for the Apple iPhone. The new feature will be available as early as today. It works like this: You ask a question and the sound is converted to a digital file and [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Digit's Daljit Singh showed two cool R&D projects at the Creative Social in Shanghai: a digital version of the snowglobe that shows the weather in any city in the world and a lamp that reacts to the day's news… The Digital Snowglobe has an iPhone inside it's clear plastic dome. [...]
BuzzMachine |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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I can't wait to get the Google iPhone app that answers questions asked by voice: Tim O'Reilly called this one a year and a half ago, I think, when he said that GOOG-411's core purpose or fringe benefit was that Google would harvest our voice samples and out of them [...]
Exact Editions |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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The iPhone is a surprisingly good reading platform. The touch interface works wonderfully, both in sliding digital pages and in shrinking or enlarging them; and the brilliance of the Apple design means that no one needs a user manual. Even with its very small screen area, broadsheet digital editions are [...]
VoIP |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday.The free application, which allows iPhone owners to use the Google search engine with their voice, mistook the word "iPhone" variously for "sex," [...]
VoIP |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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"Once you own an iPhone, you discover that it’s more than a phone. It’s a way of life."This is the best example of what I wrote a few minutes ago.If somebody arrives to think and even say and write that the iPhone is a way of life that means "Mission [...]
Tomorrow’s Wireless Future One of the reasons I love what I do is that I get a chance to work with really smart people around the world on some cutting-edge projects. Additionally, I get the opportunity to interview some of the brightest minds in the industry. This year has been [...]
Darla Mack |
November 11th, 2008 |
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Along with the announcement of Nokia's Mail on Ovi service, Nokia also announced its new "Nokia LifeTools" application for emerging markets. Now, while this application might not seem all that interesting to the everyday S60 or iPhone user, this little application is designed to help people in emerging markets, like [...]
GigaOM |
November 10th, 2008 |
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We've already seen video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band dramatically change the way music is sold and marketed. Will virtual worlds bring about even more transformation? The four major record labels are gambling on just that with an online music store on IMVU, which comes out of beta [...]
PaidContent.org |
November 10th, 2008 |
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A strange launch at a strange time, and comes from a strange source: AT&T; (NYSE: T) rolled out a beta version of VideoCrawler, an online video search and aggregation engine. The public beta comes about three months after an even softer launch designed to help the company work out VideoCrawler's [...]
All Facebook |
November 10th, 2008 |
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This morning, Citizen Sports Inc. announced that they have acquired Sportacular, Sport Interactiva, and FantasyBook. This is the third acquisition that we've reported on in the past week and a half. I'd expect this trend to continue as smaller startups become more strapped for cash. FantasyBook is the development company [...]
Rex Hammock |
November 10th, 2008 |
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Admittedly, I sign up for lots of web "social media" services. But I don't sign up on far more than those I do. Sometimes I'm asked how I decide what shiny new web thing to register on. Here's how: I have to answer "yes" to at least two of the [...]
A federal judge in New York has ordered the new engineering head of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to stop work immediately. Mark Papermaster started for Apple Tuesday, prompting complaints by previous employer IBM that the new job violated an agreement with that company not to work for a competitor for a [...]
Overseas web TV viewers could soon be watching Eastenders or Dr Who on the BBC's VOD iPlayer says the Beeb's director of new media and technology, Erik Huggers. Speaking at Screen Digest's conference on the future of online distribution (via MediaGuardian), he said that the iPlayer had built up 248 [...]
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) filed its annual report for the 2008 fiscal year with the SEC today, and after combing through the 93-page document, we found a few items worth noting. Here's the highlights: -- Employees: At the end the year, the company had about 32,000 full-time equivalent employees and an [...]
Rex Hammock |
November 5th, 2008 |
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If you are a marketing-type, feel free to fill in the blanks and send this around to the folks in your "group." Subject: What our marketing and communications team can learn from Obama's campaign Date: [The sooner, the better] To: [Name of your group here] From: [Your name here] In [...]
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November 4th, 2008 |
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The Obama presidential campaign has proved to be not only an example of how to run an effective campaign - but how to run an effective newsroom. Obama's focus on technology is key; by using email, Facebook, YouTube, text messages and a custom iPhone application he manages to stay in [...]
What with Scott Moore, George Kliavkoff and, today, George Bush, it's a week of departures. Add to that list Tony Fadell, SVP of Apple's iPod division (bio). He is leaving for personal reasons and will be replaced this month by IBM microprocessor technology development VP Mark Papermaster, a source told [...]
New entrants to the exploding female-centric content market should acknowledge the diversity of female interests if they want to play in the VC/M&A; pond, Greycroft VC partner Dana Settle (above) told the deals panel at our EconWomen conference in New York. Case in point: a woman can also be a [...]
Andy Abramson |
October 29th, 2008 |
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Mike Oeth, the CEO and one of the founders of client Junction Networks shared some news with me recently. It was the kind of news that I liked to hear, because it showed that imagination was alive. With glee in his voice and a smile on his face he told [...]
