Tech companies can easily spend millions of dollars per year (or a hundred times that) translating their software, documentation and related materials for different markets in a process that has thus-far avoided automation. Such global translation services represented an estimated $31 billion market in 2011, according to Common Sense Advisors. Cloudwords says its cloud-based...
Last September, just prior to the Developer Preview’s release, I set some fairly high expectations for what I believed Microsoft would have to accomplish with Windows 8 to assure its success. These things are not going to happen – there won’t be “one Windows” that you “get” on your phone, your PC, and your...
Well, after a bit of a false start, Samsung finally seems to have done it. According to a new blog post on the official Samsung Tomorrow blog, the Korean consumer electronics giant has finally begun to push their Ice Cream Sandwich update out to the Galaxy S IIs of the world. And with that,...
Slowly but surely Ice Cream Sandwich will hit last year’s flagship Android phones. Motorola just updated its ICS schedule that details the expected timetable for each device. The biggest change is that ICS is now scheduled for non-US RAZR models. But that’s seemingly the case for most Moto devices. For the most part ICS...
Apple added Japanese support for Siri with the release of iOS 5.1 last week, but the virtual personal assistant is reportedly having some issues coming to grips with its first Asian language. Apple’s much heralded service — which has inspired similar product announcements from rivals — isn’t measuring up to Japanese carrier DoCoMo’s own Siri-like product. Shabette...
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit from a guy who says Siri doesn’t do what Apple’s advertisements say Siri does, reports Joe Palazzolo of the Wall Street Journal. The fact that Siri doesn’t work all that well isn’t news to anyone who owns an iPhone 4S. But it appears to be the first...
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Apple is a company that has inspired the masses, giving birth to very creative homages. This latest tribute is no exception. Spotted by MacMagazine, this cool stop-motion video was created in 48 hours, 921 shots and an undisclosed number of colored pencils, by a Brazilian fan of Apple, Filipe Marcelo. Apple fanboys and Steve...
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Our favorite Apple parody site Scoopertino has struck again with a magnificent bit of fake news. This is the same site that brought us such gems as “iBalls“, the Retina display to replace your actual eyeballs. In today’s Apple “scoop”, Scoopertino discusses the company dropping musicians to let Siri sing the entire iTunes catalog....