Apple is pursuing an initiative with the codename “Proactive” that will ingest data from resources that reside on the device, including Contacts, Calendar, Passbook along with selected, installed 3rd-party apps to provide highly informed responses, search results and suggestions.
Version 7.0 of Google Play Services features “Trusted Voice,” which enables smartphone owners to speak a selected passphrase to receive updates or download new apps.
Place 2013 brought together the entire spectrum of companies building the indoor location ecosystem. Retailers, technology vendors, mobile developers, data providers, advertisers, agencies, and investors attended this unique, one-day event at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and was the first-of-its-kind anywhere.
Google’s new phone, the Moto X, enables its owners to take command of their digitized world without pressing a button, making a gesture or touching a screen.
Panelists from Vanguard, Union Bank, Bank of the West, PayPal and Google to discuss need for multifactor authentication in mobile banking and e-commerce
Twilio has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program, making them the first provider of an API through which Google’s community of developers can integrate SMS text messaging and voice calling into their applications.
Natural language processing and understanding has long been the yardstick for measuring the human-like qualities of computers, so it is no surprise that Kurzweil, in his capacity as Director of Engineering, will reportedly focus on machine-learning and language-processing projects.
On November 14th natural language processing startup, Maluuba, took the next step in its master plan to enable Android-based device owners to carry out Siri-like interactions with their mobile phones.
With very little fanfare, Microsoft is ready to deep six Bing 411, the free voice search and directory assistance service that grew out of its acquisition of Tellme Networks (which took place in may 2007).
Now that they got our attention by announcing the “deprecation” of the Translate API, Google is doing something of an about face today.