Nuance, makers of popular speech-recognition apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows, lifted the covers from its updated NDEV Mobile program for developers, with added support for Windows Phone 7 in the Dragon Mobile SDK, Engadget reports. The program now features three levels of service—Silver, Gold and Emerald—that will give developers increasing...
Daily Archives: September 26, 2011
Guess Who Made The Highest Bid For Hulu (GOOG, DISH, YHOO, AMZN)
See Also: Kansas City Provides Clues To Google’s “Big Ass Ideas” For Hulu Here’s Why Dish Could Win The Hulu Bid The Facebook/Hulu Love Affair About To Tie The Knot Remember how a group of bidders was circling around Hulu a couple weeks ago? Whatever happened with that? Two sources tell us that satellite...
myGengo lands $5.25M for online translation that really works
myGengo, a startup that provides customized language-translation services, has taken on $5.25 million in Series A funding from London-based venture capital firm Atomico and 500 Startups. Right now, the translation market has two main segments: a high-end market dominated by full-time in-house translators, and a low-end market dominated by Google Translate. myGengo’s service aims...
Quora Gets Threaded Comments, Comment Voting, Editing And Images
QA site Quora has just unveiled a revamp of its commenting system, the most notable change being the implementation of a threaded commenting feature for the discussions under a question and its subsequent answers. The new threaded comments allow users to reply to specific comments in an answer thread, intuitively by entering text into...
Walk Score Takes Wraps Off Slick New Apartment-Locating Tool
You might be familiar with Walk Score, a site that crunches mapping data into a simple “walkability” score for a neighborhood or region. You know, whether food and entertainment are nearby, whether transit is available, and so on. It’s being used by more than 10,000 sites that list apartments and real estate now, providing...
Can the World’s Next Political Revolution Be Predicted By Computers?
Big data and sentiment analysis can do amazing things, whether it’s in the enterprise or in the quest to create compelling applications and experiences for consumers. But can technology trends such as these actually predict major real-world events? As sci-fi as it may sound, that’s exactly what researcher Kalev Leetaru was able to accomplish...
Could app developers have their accelerator? Appies says yes
What do you think developers need the most? According to the Brazilian entrepreneur Bob Wollheim, the answer is simple: “business capabilities.” It’s from this belief that his latest initiative was born. Appies, as it is called, is an accelerator of a new kind; instead of boosting startups, it focuses on app developers. So what...
Why You Shouldn’t Be Surprised Spotify Requires A Facebook Account To Sign Up
Image: Illustration: Ellis Hamburger See Also: WATCH: The Pros And Cons Of Facebook’s Huge Revamp Don’t Buy The Spam In Your Inbox Today, Facebook Will Never Charge For Service 10 Reasons Facebook Will Wipe The Floor With Google+ We think Spotify’s free service is the best there is right now. Why? Because for the...
How To Avoid Hypochondria with Real-Time Mobile Doctor Q&A
In a sign that healthcare is moving to the mobile, a company called HealthTap is launching an app that offers a Quora-like experience from the cloud. HealthTap Express allows the 89% of patients who turn to search engines instead of their local doctors for health information to do so in an objective and relatively...
Where mobile phones matter: Reaching the developing world
“The mobile phone is a developing world technology,” proclaimed MIT researcher turned mobile startup CEO Nathan Eagle in his keynote at Mobilize 2011 in San Francisco Monday. Eagle admitted that he was just as excited as everyone else at the conference about the latest Android handset, but he said that mobile technology has had...