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Enough With the Voice Interfaces for Now
This is a true story. I was sitting in a pizza parlor waiting for my lunch when a man sits down on the other side of the restaurant. He pulls out his iPhone and starts talking into it.
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Apple Acquires Cue, Another Personal Assistant, As the Buy Out Frenzy Continues
Over the week, we heard that social and personal assistant Cue (formerly known as Greplin) was shutting down. The reason for that is now apparent with Apple confirming they have acquired the company to bolster its own personal service efforts.
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Microsoft Will Buy Your iPad To Get People Trying Surface
We've seen Apple buying back old iPhones, now Microsoft will pick up your old iPad for $200 of store credit to help you try a surface tablet. With the new models due to be announced, that might not be such a crazy idea.
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Evolving Content Curation for Marketers #CMWorld
Content Curation isn't new. In fact, it's an element of content strategy that hasn't evolved too much beyond sharing, retweeting and aggregating news. Until now. Trapit, a leading provider of content curation solutions has announced its new Content Curation Center for marketers today at Content Marketing World.
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Google Now Arrives on iOS to Challenge Siri as your iPhone's Favorite Information Source
Google Now has landed on the iPad and iPhone in an update to the company's search app, bringing Google's power to match your thirst for local, relevant and useful information on the go.
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Google Snaps Up Wavii For Natural Language Search
Wavii has closed down its existing summarizing service app after being acquired by Google, where it will likely fulfill the same role that Summly now does for Yahoo. A Boom in Natural Search With Yahoo having recently relaunched its search app featuring the technology it acquired from Summly, natural language
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Excendia: A Siri-Like Voice Agent for Business
A Siri-like intelligent voice agent for business. That’s the idea behind a new cloud-based virtual assistant called Excendia, which startup Speech Mobility says makes business phone systems smarter and safer.
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Nuance Introduces the Age of Conversational Mobile Ads
Want to have a voice conversation with a mobile ad? Nuance Communications thinks you do, and this week released its new Voice Ads. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based company describes the most common mobile screen, on a smartphone, as “the worst screen for advertisers” because of its relatively small size.
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Apple to Make US$ 1 Billion from Google to Remain Default Search Engine on iOS
Long have there been rumors of a deal between Apple and Google to keep Google as the default search engine on iOS devices.
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iOS 6.1 Released for iPhone and iPad, Adds Minor Features and Updates
Those on LTE networks with the latest model iOS devices get better support from the new Apple update, while Passbook, iTunes Match and a few other features get a quick touch-up. Favoring the New Boys Hot on the heels of news of a bigger-memory iPad comes the small matter of
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Amazon Gets Talkative With Ivona Text-to-Speech Acquisition
The latest company to invest in voice, Amazon already uses Ivona's technology in its Kindle Fire audio reader, but will look to challenge Siri and Samsung's S Voice in future products by acquiring the Polish company. Talk To Me Even the quick demo on the front page of Ivona's site
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Deep Learning Aids Speech Analytics, Voice Recognition - Just the Beginning
Advances in an artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning are helping companies like Microsoft and Nuance create powerful speech analytics and voice recognition software at a much quicker pace than ever before.
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Apple Stock Price Bounces Back, Thanks to AC/DC and eBay?
Apple's star-kissed run may finally have come to end on the stock market, despite the company's recent run of launches and with more positive news coming out.
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WWDC Keynote Sees Apple's iOS Future Going Live
Here we go then, another fun joyride through the highs (if you're a developer) and lows (if you expect magical-device unveiling miracles) of an Apple Keynote, with the expected focus on new features in OS X and iOS. WWDC Keynote Updates Latest updates at the top: Looks like there is
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