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What AT&T Has to Fear From Google Voice

Written on August 20, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 30 people have commented

Lately, Google Voice is perhaps one of the most widely discussed products in the Apple blogosphere besides Apple’s own native devices. With its rejection from the App Store and people pointing fingers at Apple, AT&T, Steve Jobs and just about everyone and everything else in between, new evidence put forth by Andy Kessler and The [...]

Tip Jar: Getting More Out of Google Voice

Written on August 03, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 21 people have commented

With invites going out every day and Google and Apple being in the news many times over because of the rejection of its native Google Voice app for the iPhone, many are giving this service a close look. If you’re a Mac or iPhone user, here are some tips that’ll help you get the most [...]

Apple Silences Google Voice On the iPhone

Written on July 28, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 30 people have commented

First it was just apps that gave users access to Google Voice features, but now it seems as though even an official app from Google, who have traditionally been very close with Apple, will not (for now) see the light of day. GV Mobile and Voice Central, two apps that allowed Google Voice users to [...]

App Review: Quick Voice Pro — Voice to Text Email for iPhone

Written on May 28, 2009 by Olly Farshi and 27 people have commented

By converting your voice messages into text e-mails, Quick Voice Pro could be a time-saving boon for busy iPhone owners.
Empowered by our emails, tweets, IM conversations, and blogs, we’ve become modern-day information conduits. We collect knowledge, then discharge it into the ether, spurting out a constant fountain of fact, fiction and entertainment.
Quick Voice Pro is [...]

Apple Finally Making the iPhone a Good Listener

Written on April 22, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 6 people have commented

Some might see it as allowing room for third-party developers to take over and implement some clever solutions of their own, but I think Apple left some features off of the iPhone either out of laziness, time constraints, or because they were saving punches for later rounds (i.e. iPhone 3.0). One of those features, which [...]

Speaking to Google Voice Search

Written on November 18, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 8 people have commented

Last week I wrote a piece detailing Google’s new voice searching functionality for the iPhone, and at the time sources predicted a Friday launch. Well, it didn’t come Friday, but it’s finally here, and based on early impressions, it’s an impressive piece of software.
I downloaded the updated application late last night. Being a chronic mumbler, [...]

Google Search Will Hear You, If You Have an iPhone

Written on November 14, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 11 people have commented

Expectations are mounting that a Google iPhone app will drop later today, bringing with it a minor revolution in how we conduct web searches. While it’s unclear whether this will be a new app or an update to the exiting Google iPhone application, it will support voice searching, allowing you to speak what you want [...]

Weekly App Store Roundup: Nov. 1, 2008

Written on November 01, 2008 by Olly Farshi and 2 people have commented

The time has arrived for us to wave a fond farewell to the week that brought us the joys of seeing Steve Wozniak dressed as a Sith Lord and the subsequent horror of seeing The Woz then attempt to act. As usual, the App Store has been chugging away in the background like a steam engine fueled only [...]

Speech to Text, the Next Step

Written on April 21, 2008 by Arvin Dang and 7 people have commented

Windows has developed what they feel is the next generation of computing, the tablet PC. We’ve seen Bill Gates strongly advocate the tablet as the true “next generation” platform for computing. But I disagree, and here’s why.
Handwriting schmandwriting
I still argue that writing recognition on a tablet isn’t close enough to paper writing. I’ve used a [...]