Google is working to improve its Android Voice Search product by adding a new personalized recognition option, which should improve voice transcription over time. But more importantly, it also provides a glimpse at how how we’ll end up interacting with increasingly personal cloud services. Read More »
Archive for December 2010
Local recommendations are becoming a key feature for location-based apps as they look to provide useful suggestions for users. Recommendations represent one way location services are moving beyond check-in, helping them transition from broadcasting a user’s current location to assisting them in finding their next one. Read More »
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 seems like it would be a developer’s dream, with a huge install base and an audience interested in watching video services. But Microsoft has no plans to open the platform to outside developers, preferring a curated approach to adding services on the console. Read More »
Apple is gearing up to launch its Mac App Store within the next two months. Preview screenshots suggest that Apple’s iWork apps will be among the first available for purchase in the new marketplace. I’d prefer a more modest offering: Notes.app. Read More »
Nokia today delayed its E7 handset from delivery in 2010 to some time in “early 2011.” A comparison between the E7 and Nokia’s N8 show devices that are far more similar than different, so what does the E7 delay say about the N8 user experience? Read More »
Abound Solar is ending the year with glad tidings and good cheer — that is, $110 million in equity and a $400 million federal loan guarantee, almost all of which will fund an ambitious plan to build 775 megawatts of new manufacturing capacity. Read More »
Bundle uses the billions of Citi customer transactions to draw correlations between spending habits and what other people might enjoy or buy. CTO Phil Kim explains that wrangling even highly structured data takes a lot of organizing, a lot of computing and a lot of time. Read More »
There are many services enabling users to listen to music in the cloud, but Pandora and others have to contend with the delightful entities that are music labels. The site Tubeify is sparing itself that headache by not hosting content, instead indexing what’s already available online.… Read More »
Research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts in a new report that based on current trends, sales of mobile apps will be a $35 billion industry by 2014. App downloads will reportedly climb from 2010′s 10.9 billion to 76.9 billion by that time. Read More »
Comcast’s new Xcalibur trial shows that it has the ability to roll out new online video services on its connected set-top boxes. But just because it can, doesn’t mean it will. The company is more focused on refining search and navigation features through the trial. Read More »
I’ve been working on site one day a week, and I’ve noticed something that differentiates the way I operate compared to my “in-office” colleagues: I see my time differently than they do. And, to be honest, I think it makes me more productive than they are. Read More »
The Cr-48 offers marginal hardware and an imperfect experience, but as Google very clearly stated, this device isn’t going to be sold in the market. The real story to focus on is ChromeOS and what it really means, and who Google is targeting. Read More »
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