By Lansia |
31 Dec, 2009 | Industry News, Ramblings
How are you saying good-bye to 2009 tonight? Sleeping like any other day? Dinner with friends? Clubbing with strangers? Counting down with Dick Clark (or is it Ryan Seacrest now)? Here at SoftwareNewsDaily, we wanted to say farewell by reminiscing our top 10 technology news stories of 2009. When I say “our” top 10 stories, I suppose it’s really more “my” top 10 stories. That’s okay, I don’t mind dominating the office opinion; they’ll agree with me. Counting down to the number one story, here are “our” picks.
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By Lansia |
18 Dec, 2009 | MAC/Apple, New Releases, Smart Software Buying
Nuance has released another mobile application for iPhone, Dragon Search. Powered by their popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, the app lets you search the web just by saying the words. It’s the “fast, easy, and smart way to search online content on your iPhone using your voice,” declares Nuance. Voice your search and receive results from engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, Twitter and iTunes. Their top five reasons for getting it?
- Most convenient way to search on your iPhone
- Amazingly accurate
- Up to five times faster than typing
- Easy to use
- Safer and more productive while you are out and about
And the best reason that’s not mentioned? It’s a free download (at least for now). Download either Dragon Dictation or Dragon Search at the Dragon Mobile Apps site; it’s also available through iTunes.
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By admin |
17 Sep, 2009 | Industry News
Yahoo and Microsoft will couple against alpha-male search engine Google. After several years of negotiations, offers, withdrawals, and hesitations, the companies finally worked out a 10-year deal in July of this year. Google was required to pay no upfront dowry, and eventually have full access to Yahoo’s search power for use in new search engine Bing.
As expected, the proposition has been met with much scrutiny from the Justice Department and antitrust regulators. Microsoft and Yahoo together hold only about a quarter of the search market in Google’s great shadow. All eyes are on two companies now as they work out the details. And we can only hope their union will not be as rocky as their courtship.
