Google will offer its personal assistant app Google Now to users of Apple devices, stepping up its challenge to its rival's Siri program. "Google Now is about giving you just the right information at just the right time," Google's Andrea ...
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Google has purchased news streaming provider Wavii, the start-up's CEO has confirmed, as it immediately shut down its service before being incorporated into the world's number one web firm. The deal, worth an estimated $30m (£18m), ...
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Amazon has completed a deal worth $26m (£17m) to acquire Cambridge-based start-up Evi, developer of the voice-activated virtual intelligence applications of the same name. The deal has been rumoured for some time and according to ...
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What if clothes could talk? Would they tell people how they’re feeling or when they need to be washed? Maybe they will someday. For now, Arizona-based Performance 3D is working to deliver the world's first talking clothes called 3D ...
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Apple and Yahoo have been discussing the possibility of developing a stronger partnership, which could lead to Yahoo services taking a more prominent role on iPhone and iPad devices. According to sources "briefed on the matter", Apple and ...
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While existing technology continues to advance in incremental - boring - steps, the next wave is on its way, promising to turn us all into friendlier, more-adventurous versions of the Terminator. I welcome our new google overlords. ...
Tags: Smart glasses, glass industry, glass
It's been eons in coming, but pre-ordered BlackBerry Z10's will start being delivered in Australian from Monday. More than four years has elapsed since BlackBerry brought out its first touchscreen model, the Storm, in late 2008. It also ...
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Apple's new parental security offering includes finger painting - you roll your finger over areas of an iPhone display to stop your kids accessing content. It's an intriguing feature implemented with little fanfare but one of many options ...
Home automation has come to the iPhone with sophisticated tools that let you automatically turn lights on at sunset, receive a text if the front door opens at night, or turn on airconditioning when your cat goes to the litter. This ...
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Ferrari is working with Apple to enhance vehicle built-in entertainment systems, and launched a car with built-in Siri and two iPad Mini. At the Geneva International Motor Show this week, Ferrari chairman Luca Claudio de los • Di ...
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The relationship between Ferrari and tech giant Apple is set to expand, with the Italian supercar maker’s CEO hinting at future endeavours during the Geneva motor show. Bloomberg reports Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo confirmed the ...
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More important than whether Apple does make some kind of "iWatch" wearable device is how it does one, an analyst argued today. Scuttlebutt has circulated in the last week -- driven by stories from the Wall Street Journal and the New York ...
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German carmaker Opel is planning to unveil the ADAM R2 along with its other vehicles at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show to be held in Switzerland from 07-17 March 2013. The car is a Rally Cup version of the ADAM and will be powered by the ...
The boss of Opel Australia says he would dearly like to add the Opel Adam to the local line-up, but admits the high level of customisation available to the city car complicates its business case. Opel Australia managing director BIll Mott ...
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A watch that doubles as a computer and two-way radio has been a technology vision since at least the 1950s. Recently, reports that Apple is building an iWatch have lit a fire under the smart watch concept, at least in part because of ...
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