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Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Problem With Microsoft and Apple
Yeah, hopefully looking at this graphic makes you a little sick to your stomach and shows the reason why we need patent law reform. When Microsoft reportedly makes more money on licensing Android then either their regular OS or phone OS (depending on who you hear from) and Apple can shut down a company’s tablet [...]
Posted in hardware, open source, OSS Applications, Productivity
Tagged android, education, evo, google, linux, media, open source, schools, tablet
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Speaktoit Assistant
In the last post I shared Iris, the in-progress digital assistant to compete with Apple’s Siri. While it has a long way to go, there are many existing apps that can help you stay organized. While no Sandy (http://www.k12opensourceclassroom.org/?p=611), Speaktoit Assistant allows you to speak requests, such as reminders, to your own assistant. What I [...]
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Voice Assistants for Android
Yeah, yeah, we all heard about Siri by now. Apple’s great voice recognition app. You tell it to do something, like a reminder, and it does it. So, in 8 hours, some Android developer generated a similar app, Iris. Yes, Siri backward. Doesn’t work to well yet, gets a lot of things wrong, but a [...]
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Galaxy Nexus
Ugg! Why does Verizon get all the fun. So yes, the latest phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released, to sport the new Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 operating system. Man, I hope Sprint will get it soon. Lots of new features, including: finally native installed ability for screenshots. No more special apps, no more rooting [...]
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Tagged android, apple, browser, evo, google, internet, linux, media, open source, schools
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Ok, Really? And Apple is Suing Samsung?
So it looks like the judge has some common sense. Don’t know yet about a final decision, especially with all the numerous slimy lawyers Apple deployed, but this is very telling: Judge Koh is at least considering the argument, though she does not deny the similarities between Samsung and Apple’s competing products. During the hearing, [...]