I keep praying for fewer buttons on my TV remote, yet we keep going in the opposite direction. Thankfully, AT&T seems to understand my pain. The carrier showed off some concepts today for adding voice control and cloud-based natural language processing to the TV remote. Read More »
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Layar, creator of a mobile augmented reality (AR) platform, today announced $14 million in funding led by Intel Capital. The funds will be used for three purposes, all of which are meant to create “augmented reality experiences to people’s everyday lives,” says Maarten Lenz-FitzGerald of Layar. Read More »
The official Google Voice App for iPhone is now available in the App Store, following the arrival of a number of third-party solutions. The app was originally submitted sometime in mid-2009, and pulled from sale by Apple, but was never officially accepted or rejected. Read More »
A website has launched that puts popular smartphones through a series of controlled stress tests to see how they fare. Gadgetstress.com takes smartphones and puts some serious hurt on them, then ranks them so consumers can tell how each phone stacks up against the competition. Read More »
You’d think the need for copious amount of bandwidth would drive up prices. And yet, the price of Internet bandwidth continues to fall. Telegeography shows prices for the IP transit are declining as traffic volumes grow more than 60 percent annually. Read More »
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said his company’s battle with Apple comes as a war is brewing to bring new applications to consumer electronics devices. That war is being fought to capture developer interest and ensure that the best applications are being built on different platforms. Read More »
AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile said they are banding together to create a new mobile commerce network called Isis that utilizes near field communications. The new venture raises questions about how well Isis will compete, and whether it will help kick-start the NFC payments market. Read More »
Making sure elderly parents living alone are all right is now easier with the release of the Sonamba monitoring system. Sonamba is a 7-inch digital picture frame that monitors motion and sound in the surrounding area to determine if the elderly resident is in distress. Read More »
Papaya Mobile, already one of Android’s staunchest gaming supporters, is taking its support one step further by releasing a game engine designed to make it easy for developers to build Android games that can easily hook into Papaya’s mobile social platform. Read More »
Just 40 days after introducing it, LG has sold 1 million Optimus handsets, a relatively low-priced Google Android smartphone targeted for first-time smartphone owners. The Optimus represents a growing challenge for handset companies such as Nokia to transition away from feature phones with value-priced smartphones. Read More »
YouVersion, better known as the Bible app, has taken advantage of the mobile platform and some social features to rack up almost 10 million installs since it first launched. Coming soon are badges for completing a reading plan and the ability to share video notes. Read More »
Comcast released its iPad app today, enabling subscribers to navigate their program guides and browse on-demand videos. Luckily, I was at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today, where Comcast is showing it off, and manged to get some hands-on time with the app. Read More »
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