As markets mature, incumbents distinguish themselves by capitalizing on long-term branding and R&D investment, while insurgents put pressure on with new features and functions that they hope will gain traction. A flurry of new announcements in the Intelligent Agent domain… Read More ›
Apple’s iPhone 5s will be remembered as the personal communications device that got people engaged in serious discussions of the virtues of biometric authentication at scale.
Piper Jaffray’s Analyst Gene Munster reportedly issued a research note to clients speculating that Apple will exclude Siri from a forthcoming, low-cost version of the iPhone 5. Upon reflection it is my belief that such a tactic would be a big mistake.
Siri Co-Founder Norman Wanarsky joins Interactions Corp. and Opus Research in a live webcast on mobile “personal virtual assistants”
Contrary to what Henry Blodget says, Siri is succeeding.
Spoken queries to Siri regarding electronic gadgets, appliances, games and computers will result in a display of responses that include the the SKUs (stock keeping units) in Best Buy’s catalog
Twilio is encouraging developers to come up with interesting new applications for the iPhone 4S using the Twilio platform for SMS as a quasi-API.
While most people are marveling at how well Siri recognizes and fulfills on many of their intentions, the inevitable criticism has begun.
Nuance completed its acquisition of SVOX AG, the Switzerland-based provider of a full range of speech processing software.
With Microsoft plunking down $8.5 billion of its $36 billion in cash and near cash to buy Skype, a few analysts have started to take a closer look at the $25 billion in cash and short term investments on Apple’s balance sheet and apparently concluded that it is contemplating a deal with Nuance Communications.