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Siri Co-Founder Kittlaus Departs From Apple

Kara Swisher in Mobile on October 23, 2011 at 11:17 pm PT

Siri, is it true that one of your creators left the building at Apple? Yes, sigh, Dag.

Former Apple and PopCap Engineer Launches App to Make iPhone Camera Useful

Liz Gannes in Social on February 9, 2011 at 9:12 am PT

A new app called visualList is a simple but powerful extension of the iPhone’s camera, allowing users to organize and remember things by taking pictures.

For Ask.com, Foray Into Social Search Points to Mobile

Liz Gannes in Social on December 28, 2010 at 12:56 pm PT

As Ask re-emphasizes questions and answers, President Doug Leeds is particularly high on the company’s efforts in mobile as an ideal environment for asking questions and getting timely replies from other users.

Liveblogging Google's SF Mobile Event: Voices Actions, Chrome to Phone, No Video-Calling, But Will There Be Donuts?

Kara Swisher in News on August 12, 2010 at 10:05 am PT

BoomTown was sitting front row center–better to scare Google Mobile Product Manager Hugo Barra–at the Silicon Valley search giant’s press event in San Francisco this morning. Google called together a group of reporters to discuss some “cool new features” for its Android operating system. While many have been expectantly waiting for Google to announce a video-calling offering, to match Apple FaceTime service, that was not to be here. Instead, it was a low-key rollout of a few whiz-bang features we can all ooh and ahh at.

Exclusive: Tellme Founder and GM McCue Departs, as Microsoft Reorganizes Its Speech Recognition Unit

Kara Swisher in News on May 13, 2009 at 10:20 am PT

After running one of the more successful Silicon Valley acquisitions by Microsoft for several years, Tellme Networks founder and GM Mike McCue will be leaving the company at the end of June. As part of the transition, Zig Serafin, who has been running a lot of the speech technology efforts for the software giant in Redmond, Wash., is taking over the voice services subsidiary and all the other related units and making them into a single team with about 400 employees in total. McCue and Serafin are now meeting with Tellme staff at its Mountain View HQ about the changeover.