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Nuance’s Dragon Go Is a Voice-Powered Search App That Knows Where to Look

in Mobile on July 13, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Voice-powered search is a crowded field dominated by the search giants — Google and Bing — but Nuance hopes to earn its place with Dragon Go, an app that not only recognizes what someone is saying, but also knows which services should be queried for results.
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Kara Visits Mozilla HQ!

in News on July 30, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Before John Lilly got the CEO job at Mozilla, I had visited the HQ of the the open-source software nonprofit foundation (and, at the same time, a for-profit startup)–famous for its increasingly popular Firefox browser and red dragon logo–on Landings Drive in Mountain View. I toured the place and took video note of a freakishly large sculpture made of soda cans and the biggest couch I have ever seen. In other words, just another typical Silicon Valley company.

Video Players Compatible With iTunes

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on March 23, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

Walt answers questions on speech-recognition software for Macs, whether Windows Media Player will play video files from iTunes, and if Vista is worth the wait.