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I was quite surprised and very interested to read this post by TechCrunch… http://bit.ly/13xaKb.
From a technical perspective this is quite a development in the world of voice recognition and marries it well with translation. It’s actually a very cool set up that potentially takes us one step closer to a more networked world.
But on [...]
Archive > June 2009
Sakhr moves into Mobile Speech Translation…
Mobile Today… what tomorrow?
I attended this cool presentation at BarCamp Sydney (#bcs5), last Saturday and thought it would be worth sharing…
Today: Mobile Internet, Tomorrow: What?
View more presentations from Michael Harries.
Are Realtime feeds, as dangerous as a fatal disease?
I read this post on TechCrunch this morning, about the potential explosion of Online Mobs on real-time sites/applications…
In this post Michael Arrington compares FriendFeed specifically to the disease Syphilis and to the fact that it’s going to have to evolve or die/collapse under the weight of online mobs gathering and wreaking online and offline havoc. [...]
Recent Convergence of Hardware and Internet Software is biggest threat to Microsoft…
I’m sure everyone agrees that Microsoft is a monster in it’s own right, from hardware and networking services to the Windows OS… and from Gaming (XBox) to MS Office… there is no doubt that Microsoft still has a large role to play in the tech world.
But… there is also little doubt that it will need [...]
A Dynamic Arabic Web…
Recently, I’ve been spending a lot more time on Twitter than this blog. Aside from the speed and ease of spreading information in 140 characters, it’s really helped me connect to companies, bloggers and people who I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to reach.
One trajectory I’ve been going off on, is that of the Arabic [...]
Does Google Squared shift power from aggregators?
Google Squared launched a few weeks ago , in a bid to collate, aggregate and structure the web’s data. If you run a search of any kind you’ll see it presents data in a tabulated format that resembles a spreadsheet.
It’s been touted as a Wolfram|Alpha killer. Personally, I’m not sure I see that as a [...]
Getting what you want faster…
It’s pretty evident that Microsoft have spent a huge amount of cash on marketing it’s new Decision Engine… Bing. The ad below and final sponsored message with the Daily Show is my favorite so far… and really drives the point in a cool way. Whether it actually gets you what you want faster is still [...]
CrunchPad… somewhere between an iPhone and NetBook!
I came across this clip of the CrunchPad… an eagerly awaited (well by me at least) device being designed and launched by the guys at TechCrunch.
From the clip below, you’ll see it’s a really cool gadget that sort of sits between an iPhone, a NetBook and the Kindle eBook Reader… designed solely primarily for browsing [...]
