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Vista's speech recognition software can be "trained" to understand a user's voice, activate commands in any Windows application, and to enable voice dictation. It also supports multiple languages. Sounds great right? Well maybe not. What until you see this video of Vista's speech recognition in action.
Web search leader Google Inc. is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry.
Google spokesman Michael Mayzel said this week that the company will begin a public test of Google Audio Ads by the end of the year. Advertisers will be able to go online and sign up for targeted radio ads using the same AdWords system they use to buy Web search ads.
Google is generally testing its ability to move into offline media, this week saying it would help customers buy advertisements in 50 U.S. newspapers.
I was on Jason D. O’Grady‘s PowerPage when I saw this article about an iPod soap scam and started cracking up. We’ve all heard of the iPod’s vaunted “clean design,” but this is ridiculous. Someone named Sean bought what he thought was an iPod from the Smalldog Electronics website. However, after removing the shrink-wrap and …
Retro junkies rejoice. Speck Products has a top-loading iPod stereo speaker system called the SpeckTone Retro. Sure, there are hundreds of iPod speaker systems on the market. What makes this system unique is the design. The designers of the SpeckTone Retro have succeeded in making a product that looks modern and retro at the same …
Ever talk yourself into a corner or been bogged down with technical problems during a presentation? Just remember that these problems can happen to anyone, even(Amazon link) Steve Jobs. Here’s a funny MacWorld Expo Blooper Reel that both Mac and PC users can laugh at. Funny MacWorld Blooper Reel Here’s a blooper reel of Steve …
Viacom said on Tuesday that it had struck a deal to provide television and music video content to Baidu, one of China’s biggest and fastest-growing Internet companies. The alliance between Viacom’s MTV Networks and Baidu.com, one of the world’s most heavily trafficked Web sites, is the biggest effort so far to introduce American television and …
In the latest sign of the rapidly shifting forces on the Web, Yahoo Inc. acknowledged it faces increased competition for online advertising dollars from both new and established rivals. For several years, Yahoo, Google Inc. and a few other large sites have reaped the lion’s share of U.S. online-ad spending without significant challenges from upstarts. …
Google is prepared to pump more video into YouTube, an executive with the search giant said. Days after the $1.65 billion sale was announced, Marissa Mayer, Google vp search product and user experience, discussed the company’s acquisition at a breakfast hosted Friday by the New Yorker and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. Envisioning more …
Jason O’Grady from PowerPage.org found an interesting research report that says the 5th Ave Apple Store is offensive to some Muslims. Why? Apparently the glass cube shape of the Apple Store entrance resembles the Ka’ba in Mecca (see image). The report, which was translated by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), also finds problems …
It’s official. Say hello to Chad and Steve, the worlds newest millionaires. Web-search giant Google has acquired YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion. The acquisition of YouTube makes Google the 500 gorilla of online video. And that’s a perfect place to be at a time when consumers are rapidly increasing the amount of time they spend …
YouTube and CBS said today they have struck a content and advertising deal through which CBS and sibling cable operations Showtime and College Sports TV Networks will provide daily short-form news, sports and entertainment clips to the Internet video distributor. This marks the first distribution agreement between the YouTube and a major broadcast network. YouTube …
The latest prize in the great Internet land grab, online-video company YouTube Inc., could soon be snapped up by Google Inc. Web-search giant Google is in talks to acquire YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion, a person familiar with the matter says. An acquisition of the closely held company would catapult Google to the lead spot …
Apple posted a downloadable QuickTime movie of the new iPod Nano ad on their website. You’ve probably already seen the ads on TV. If not, it’s a slight departure from Apple’s standard black silhouette dancer ads. Although these ads still feature a silhouette dancer, their focus is more on the new colors of the iPod …
The Flybar Pogo Stick is an extreme Pogo stick that sends you up to 5 feet (1.52 meters) into the air.
The Philips HD3600 PerfectDraft is a clever home keg system that allows you to pull the perfect pint of draught lager at home.
The iPod is a huge success for Apple. But is it actually helping to drive sales of Apple computers?
For a while, cell phones and computers got smaller and smaller. Much like Nicole Ritchie, they have whittled away until they were razor-thin and hardly larger than a book of matches. Soon, phones couldn’t get any smaller without disappearing or getting lost in everyone’s comparatively enormous pants pockets. So, instead of pushing the miniature envelope, …
