Google put Apple’s Siri and startups such as Vlingo on notice with Voice Actions for Android, and launched the Chrome to Phone extension, both for Android 2.2 smartphones. – Google put Apple’s Siri and startups such as Vlingo on notice with Voice
Actions for Android, an extension of Google’s voice-search technology that lets
users speak commands into their smartphone to browse the Web, send texts and
make calls.
Users of smartphones running Android 2.2 can tap the …
Google could parry Apple’s purchase of mobile personal assistant application for the iPhone by buying Vlingo, whose Android application now lets users call out to the Web to find taxis and restaurants with their voices. – When Apple acquired
Siri in April, industry watchers immediately wondered how Google would respond.
Siri created a personal assistant application that enables users to speak requests such
as quot;find me a taxi, quot; or quot;book me a reservation at a French
restaurant, quot; and have their a…
Vlingo July 15 launched a SuperDialer feature for its Android application that connects users to businesses on the Web. The technology competes with Apple’s Siri semantic search app. – Vlingo, which makes speech
recognition software for smartphones, released a SuperDialer feature for
its Android application that connects users to businesses on the Web.
Vlingo’s applications let users of Apple’s iPhone, Google Android devices,
RIM BlackBerry handsets, Windows Mobile and Nokia…
Wired has unveiled the identity of the person who found that iPhone HD prototype device in the California bar. The man’s name is Brian Hogan and according to Hogan’s attorney, “He regrets his mistake in not doing more to return the phone.”
Reports are coming in that campaigns on the new Apple iAd platform for the [...]
I am really digging the way some iPad games are using the iPhone as controllers. The latest such game is called PadRacer and each player uses the iPhone to control the car on the iPad screen.
Apple has acquired Siri, the company behind the personal assistant app for the iPhone. Terms of the purchase are unknown [...]
Siri co-founder Norm Winarsky confirmed Apple has acquired startup Siri, whose virtual personal assistant application lets users of the Apple iPhone 3GS book restaurant tables, buy movie tickets and perform several other tasks all by speaking into their device. Apple did not comment on the buy, which marks a win for the computer maker as it fends off Google, Nokia and others in the arms race for applications that provide consumers with valuable mobile Web resources. Given Apple’s approach of keeping everything regarding its applications and platforms in-house, it is doubtful Siri will ever grace Android or BlackBerry.
– Apple has acquired startup Siri,
whose virtual personal assistant application lets users of the Apple iPhone 3GS
book restaurant tables, buy movie tickets and perform several other tasks all
by speaking into their device.
Blogger Robert Scoble unearthed the buy from this April 27 filing
with t…
Siri’s application that lets users ask their phones to complete e-commerce transactions and other tasks is now available for the Apple iPhone 3GS smartphone. Siri’s technology recalls speech recognition technologies Google uses for its search by voice feature, or speech input technologies for smartphones based on Android. Dig a little deeper and it’s clear there is more to Siri than basic speech recognition and search. Siri takes into account users’ locations, pointing them to local services. Moreover, once users set up their accounts, the app picks up info and stores it for context.
– Siri Feb. 5 said its artificial
intelligence application that lets users ask their phones to complete e-commerce
transactions and other tasks is now available on Apple’s iPhone 3GS smartphone.
Siri, spun out from Stanford University’s SRI
International research arm after five years in developmen…
A new patent has been published by Apple that outlines a way that Apple can make social networking and video calls use location aware features. The feature would allow you to go to where a person you are talking to actually is.
A new software application for Mac computers has landed in beta form that is [...]
With the aim of speeding up Commonwealth Games projects, government on Thursday approved about Rs 828 crores funding for DDA.
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure gave its approval for funding to the tune of Rs 827.85 crores for the development of the Commonwealth Games Village, the competition venues at Yamuna and Siri Fort Sports complexes, and [...]
