Ina Fried in Mobile on December 20, 2011 at 8:17 am PT
Voice leader Nuance is scooping up its one-time legal target, for an undisclosed price.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 31, 2011 at 7:18 pm PT
Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be
me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
Kara Swisher in News on October 30, 2011 at 3:03 pm PT
Apple seems to like to cut off the heads of all adults — kids appear to be spared the semi-beheadings — in these latest ads for its new iPhone 4S featuring the Siri voice control feature.
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.
Ina Fried in Mobile on October 13, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
The company’s Android app, which began testing speech-to-speech translations in English and Spanish in January, now supports a bunch more languages.
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2011 at 6:17 am PT
Can anyone in Silicon Valley fill the outsized shoes of Steve Jobs? Not likely.
Drake Martinet in News on October 4, 2011 at 3:41 pm PT
Even back in 2009, Siri’s machine learning-assisted software was pretty compelling. Here’s a video of the whole product demo, plus what Apple thought the voice assistant product would look like in 1987.
Kara Swisher in Mobile on October 4, 2011 at 12:08 pm PT
Be nice to Mac fanboys today. Apple rolled out a new iPhone today.
Sort of.
Ina Fried in Mobile on June 20, 2011 at 1:55 pm PT
Nuance confirmed Monday that it acquired the technology behind the iPhone note-taking app back in March. The deal, littled notice at the time, raised eyebrows recently after Nuance pulled the program from Apple’s App Store. Nuance promised the app will return soon and the technology will also make its way into other products.
Kara Swisher in News on May 10, 2011 at 12:28 am PT
When a group of powerful investors, including Silver Lake Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, waded into the mess at Skype less than two years ago with a $1.9 billion cash investment for a big chunk of the company, it was–how can BoomTown put this delicately–a hot mess.
Now–with Microsoft poised to pay over $8 billion for the Internet telephony and voice communications company–it is a lucrative one.
