Amazon Snaps Up Yap And...

The month before Apple revealed its “intelligent assistant,” Siri, Amazon was quietly buying out a company whose software performs voice-to-text actions like transcribing voicemails, whatever those are. In fact, its only user-facing product did just that , and its users...
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Gary Morgenthaler Expla...

The iPhone 4S is on the streets, and accompanying it is a helpful young virtual assistant named Siri. You’ve probably heard something about Siri by this point, as tech blogs and the media writ large, have been yammering about Siri’s technology at full blast. Since the...
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus could be delayed in the UK

Samsung Galaxy Nexus co...

Heads up UK residents, if you were hoping to get your hands on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus come 17th of November, you could be in for a disappointment. It seems that according to Amazon UK’s Galaxy Nexus Page along with reports of customers receiving emails from Amazon, the release date...
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Amazon may have purchas...

Siri is one of Apple’s latest and probably the most hyped up feature on the iPhone 4S. So much so that developers have attempted to port it over onto older iPhones, but if a recent SEC filing is to be believed, it seems that Amazon may want in on a Siri-like feature of their own too....
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Is Kindle Fire Demand B...

New findings from ChangeWave Research show that demand for the Kindle Fire , Amazon’s first tablet, is outpacing pre-launch demand compared to the iPad . The data was disclosed by RBC analyst Mike Abramsky in a note to clients, BGR reported. ChangeWave surveyed 2,600 consumers to...
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“Several Thousand” ...

Maybe the Kindle Fire isn’t as “media-deficient” a tablet as BN CEO William Lynch would have us believe. Amazon has just announced that they too will have support for Netflix and Pandora, as well as “several thousand more apps” when the Kindle Fire ships...
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Kindle Fire to receive ...

It seems as though the tablet wars are heating up real fast – as Amazon’s Kindle Fire is set to go out with guns blazing from next week onwards with official word that thousands of apps as well as games will be made available on that particular platform. We are talking about...
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oDesk: Online Work Mark...

Online outsourcer oDesk is reporting today that its contractors earned a record $22.3 million through the oDesk platform in October. This represents 90% growth from 2010. oDesk offers a “marketplace for talent” that makes it easy for companies to hire workers remotely. Last month,...
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Kindle Cloud Reader web...

Have you checked out Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader yet? If you actually answered in the negative, then you might want to know that Amazon’s HTML5-fueled Web app that will cater for the reading of e-books is now ready to rock and roll on Firefox – which means the number...
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Nook Tablet vs. Kindle ...

We’ve just gotten a look Barnes and Noble’s new 7-inch Nook Tablet, and surprise! It’s very similar to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. But the differences that do exist—in specs, price, and usability—are telling. Here’s how it all breaks down....
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