Since the iPhone 4S came out Siri, the enhanced voice control functionality found only on the iPhone 4S (for the time being), has become a a focal point for the state of the art of speech recognition. With smartphones packing quite a punch in terms of CPU power and access to the cloud becoming ubiquitous …
Category Archive: Android
Oct 22 2011
eBook Pick – In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives
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Amazon, Android, Apple, Content & Search, Google, iPhone, Mail, Operating Systems, Technology
by Boyd Chan
This is my second eBook pick courtesy of my Kindle DX and sheds some light on the internal operations of Google covering things from its genesis in a university right through to significant products such as Google Mail, Android and, of course, search. “In The Plex” was written by Steven Levy who also wrote Hackers, …
Tags: Amazon, Android, Apple, eBook, Eric Schmidt, Google, Google Mail, iPhone, Kindle, Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Oct 12 2011
The Samsung Popup Shop – Feisty or Foolish?
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Amazon, Android, Apple, Content & Search, Google, iOS, iPhone, Music, Operating Systems, Technology
by Boyd Chan
Yesterday, I wrote about the Samsung Music Hub which could be checked out at a popup shop in George Street in Sydney. Today, the general media have covered the fact that this popup shop was also offering ten Samasung Galaxy S II handsets per day until the end of the week for two dollars each. …
Tags: Apple, CPU, Galaxy S II, Galaxy Tab, Google, iOS, iPhone 4S, Music Hub, Nexus Prime, Samsung
Oct 11 2011
Samsung Unveils its Music Hub Subscription Service
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Android, Google, Microsoft, Music, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7
by Boyd Chan
It looks like Aussies will start to get more of a taste of subscription music to go head to head with Sony’s offering, Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity. This comes in the absence of an offering from Microsoft and its Zune service and Google preventing people from outside the USA from signing up to its …
Oct 01 2011
Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and Internet Sharing
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Android, Communications, Connectivity, Microsoft, Mobile, Operating Systems, Technology, Wi-Fi, Windows Phone 7, Wireless
by Boyd Chan
I guess one of the big features that Windows Phone users have been hanging out for is a friendlier solution for internet sharing. Since the initial release, you could make it work by dialling a string of numbers into the phone and manually assigning the APN but it was hardly an elegant and easily invoked …
Sep 29 2011
Why I Reckon There Will Never Be a Facebook Phone
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Android, Apple, Facebook, Instant Messaging, iTunes, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Plus, Skype, Social Networking, Technology, Twitter, Windows Phone 7
by Boyd Chan
I have been sitting on this one for a while to allow appropriate time for stewing but I think it’s about time for it to come out out of the oven. I don’t think we’ll ever see a Facebook phone. There has been recurring speculation in the media about a Facebook phone and while Mark …
Tags: Android, Apple, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Google Plus, HTC, iOS, Mango, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Mobile, phone, Samsung, Skype, social media, Twitter, Windows Live, Windows Phone
Aug 31 2011
The Perils of Pulling Out Your Smartphone Battery
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Android, Communications, Facebook, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Social Networking, Technology, Twitter, Windows Phone 7
by Boyd Chan
Just a quick one tonight. If you have a smartphone with a removable battery (like an Android phone or a Windows Phone) you should take particular care to avoid accidentally or intentionally removing the battery while the device is powered up. Smartphones are essentially small computers with file systems contained within their internal storage. Pulling …
Tags: Android, Facebook, Galaxy S, Samsung, smartphone, Twitter, Windows Phone
Aug 16 2011
HTC Bootloader Unlocking Process Kicks Off
Here’s a heads up for those of you out there with HTC handsets with locked bootloaders – starting with the HTC Sensation you now have the opportunity to unlock the bootloader in order to load custom ROMs! However, there are a couple of things to note: Unlocking the bootloader of your phone does not remove …
Tags: Android, bootloader, Google, HTC, ROMs
Aug 02 2011
Samsung Galaxy Tab Blocked From Sale in Australia and a Possible Workaround
Today, there have been numerous stories on various Australian news sites about Apple blocking Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 for various patent infringements. Of course, the immediate effects for consumers is that they cannot buy the device within the country and businesses such as carriers and technology shops are unable to sell the …
Tags: Apple, CDMA, cellular, comGateway, Galaxy Tab 10.1, LTE, Samsung, WiMaz
Jul 27 2011
Apple Forces eBook Apps to Stop “In App” Purchases
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Amazon, Android, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Content & Search, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7
by Boyd Chan
Just a heads up for those of you using iPads and iPhones for eBook reading through apps such as the Kindle, Kobo and Nook apps. If you remember, Apple drew the ire from the user community for wanting to claim 30% of the revenue for in app purchases for media publications including newspaper subscriptions and …
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