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Evi, a new voice recognition assistant, threatens to diminish Siri’s competitive edge by offering better search and answering harder questions. True Knowledge developed the Evi app using similar technology to Siri, but Evi specializes in answering complex questions that typically send Siri to a generic web search. Evi does this using a deeper knowledge database, [...]
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Samsung Ramps Up Spending to Meet Demand, Fuel Expansion
January 17th, 2012 
admin Samsung is ramping up spending and hiring in anticipation of high demand for its mobile processors this year, as the company hints at global expansion plans. The South Korea-based company announced Monday its U.S. branch will sell $1 billion in bonds, its first overseas debt sale in more than a decade. The company will likely [...]
Twitter, Facebook, RIM Meet With U.K. Authorities Over Riots
August 26th, 2011 admin Officials from Twitter, Facebook and Research in Motion met with British Home Secretary Theresa May, in an effort to combat the criminal use of mobile phones during and after crises like the recent London riots. The discussions were characterized as exploratory, with the government saying it “did not seek any additional powers to close down [...]
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No Comments »Twitter, Facebook, RIM Meet with U.K. Officials Over London Riots
August 23rd, 2011 admin Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion agreed to participate in a meeting coordinated by U.K. officials about the role social media played in riots earlier this month. The level of the group’s participation may vary, depending on the direction the talks with U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May take, with a Twitter spokesperson saying [...]
Posted in Cell Phone News Tags: Facebook, London, Meet, Officials, Over, Twitter, U.K., with No Comments »Meet the Tweeting Fridge
June 3rd, 2011 admin At the junction of the future of “connected things” and celebrity spam sits the Tweeting Fridge, a bottled water ad under a cloak of public service announcement. Brazilian celebrities are being given desktop mini fridges — sponsored by a bottled water company — to help them remember to drink the recommended two liters of water [...]
Obama to Meet With Jobs, Zuckerberg
February 18th, 2011 admin U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with a list of technology executives today in California, including Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg. The president will also likely meet with Google head Eric Schmidt and Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric’s chief executive, at the event, although the White House has not released an official [...]
Obama to Meet With Tech CEOs
February 1st, 2011 admin A week after mentioning the importance of technology in America’s future during the State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama will meet today with a group of technology company CEOs at the White House. Members of the Technology CEO Council will gather in Washington, D.C. to discuss innovation, competitiveness and innovation in the [...]
Zuckerberg, Meet Zuckerberg
January 31st, 2011 admin Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, sharing the stage with the actor that played him in “The Social Network,” Jesse Eisenberg. Zuckerberg, which joined Eisenberg during the show’s opening monologue, offered some polite, uneventful, banter after SNL cast member Andy Sandberg, who also impersonates Zuckerberg, introduced the two of [...]
