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Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek. TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report (Reuters)
Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday. Canalys: Smartphones outship PCs for first time in 2011. Or did they? (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Take a break from Android-iPhone wars for a moment and focus on another battle smartphones vs. PCs. WillCall and other iPhone apps are changing the ticket game (Appolicious)
Appolicious - The other day, TechCrunch tipped us off to a hot new last-minute ticket-selling app called WillCall. The app currently lets users choose their purchases from a select list of concerts, but will soon expand to include tickets to plays and symphonies as well. WillCall is currently only available in San Francisco but will expand to Los Angeles and New York City in March. Singapore's Artivision says in tie-up with Intel (Reuters)
Reuters - Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp. |
NFL Kicker! iPhone game gets you ready for the Super Bowl (Appolicious)
Appolicious - NFL Kicker! is the sort of game you download innocently enough looking to kill a few spare minutes; then, by the time you finally look up, you’ve spent half an hour devoted to kicking digital field goals. That’s far from a bad thing; rather it feels exciting to have a sports game on a mobile platform feel so immediate and gratifying. Celebs suit up for DirecTV Beach Bowl (AP)
 AP - Before the big game, there was another game to be had in the city — DirecTV's Celebrity Beach Bowl.Four of the Strangest New Video Game Controllers (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork - Back when home video games were still new, every new console's controller was an experiment. And before people settled on things like the Atari 2600's joystick and the Nintendo Entertainment System's gamepad, which influenced everything that came after them, they tried out some ... unusual form factors. Like the Fairchild Channel F's hybrid paddle-joystick, or the Mattel Intellivision's disc-and-touchpad arrangement. For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life (AP)
 AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a "hacker".Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site (AP)
AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it. |