December 2011
Rumor: Google prepping ‘Majel’ Android voice assistant to counter Apple’s Siri
(via)A new unverified report claims Google is working on its own voice recognition assistant for Android, drawing its “Majel” codename from the voice of the on-board computer in Star Trek.
July 2011
iOS Apps: Google+
(via)Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in.
June 2011
How Apple’s iCloud Will Rain On Google’s Parade
(via)Apple’s iCloud service, expected to be unveiled next week, completes a perfect storm of features that could accelerate Apple’s growing dominance of computing and seriously undermine Google’s cloud strategy.
February 2011
President Barack Obama joins a toast with Technology Business Leaders at a dinner in Woodside
(via)President Obama is sitting next to Steve Jobs. It’s like a last supper.
iOS Apps: Google Translate
(via)Translate words and phrases between more than 50 languages using Google Translate for iOS. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations.
Question: What can you do with a tablet?
(via)1. Watch videos! The tablet is a great great personal entertainment device. Depending on the model, you could easily get hours of HD quality video. A perfect traveling companion.
January 2011
iOS Apps: Google Places
(via)Google’s answer to FourSquare has arrived; a natural development given the amount of location-finding applications that already use its faultless maps service. The only question in our minds is why it’s been so long coming.
December 2010
Question: What can you do with a tablet?
(via)Here is my personal list.
1. Watch videos! The tablet is a great great personal entertainment device. Depending on the model, you could easily get hours of HD quality video. A perfect traveling companion.
November 2010
Google Voice app for iOS available now
(via)The official Google Voice application for the iPhone has finally arrived in the iTunes App Store. After more than a year from Apple’s rejection of Google’s first Voice app for the iPhone, almost ten months since Google responded with an HTML5-based mobile Web app, and about 6 weeks since it was reportedly approved by Apple, it’s here.
April 2010
The Dogs of War: Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft
(via)It’s hard to grasp the breathtaking scale of the epic war between Microsoft, Google and Apple.
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