Oh, be still my beating heart. [......]
Apple's much anticipated "Let's Talk iPhone" press event is underway, and after lots of chest thumping over iOS, Mac sales, iTunes, and everything else, the Cupertino company has finally and officially unveiled its iPhone 4S smartphone. It looks just like the regular iPhone 4, including the same retina display, but there's plenty new underneath the hood, including a dual-core processor. We're wrangling details from various live blogs around the Web so expect some of the finer points to be left out, at least until Apple tosses up press release. [......]
TeamSpeak Systems GmbH has released TeamSpeak 3 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This powerful teleconferencing tool is designed to allow users, both home and business, take part in group voice conversations on a large scale. [......]
A new super speed aeroplane concept is to be unveiled today, which claims 'hypersonic' speeds that could get you from Paris to New York in three and a half hours running on a seaweed-based fuel. [......]
The Evernote Corporation has released a major update for both Mac and Windows clients of its online note-taking tool, Evernote . [......]
Used for business or pleasure, Skype provides a great cross platform means of keeping in touch with your contacts anywhere in the world. While many people use the messaging tool merely to send text based instant messages, it can also be used to conduct Internet based phone calls and conference calls. Skype Voice Changer is a free add-on that enables you to do exactly what you might assume from the name. [......]
Motorola is currently investigating a voice quality issue with its recently released Atrix smartphone. The issue at hand is that some Atrix users are reporting that their voice sounds muted or muffled to the person on the other end of the line[......]
Skype continues to make a mad dash for your living room any way it can. The latest union of Skype's VoIP service and your living room hardware comes from pairing Skype with Panasonic's Viera Cast Blu-ray player lineup, which includes the ability to make Skype video and voice calls supported by the Freetalk Conference Camera. [......]
Lenovo today added half a dozen new ThinkPad laptops to its lineup. These include the T420S, T420, T520, L420, L520, and W520, all of which are aimed at business professionals in some specific way. Lenovo says they're all built upon a platform of new Lenovo innovations, such as video and voice calling, smart PC features for power and performance management, all-day battery life, enterprise management, etc[......]
By Mike Williams Sound quality really matters. The tiniest of audio glitches can often be enough to ruin a home movie or audio file, yet most applications offer little to address this. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Google launched an update to Android's voice search capability on Tuesday that incorporates speaker recognition to improve results. The new "personalized recognition" feature is currently quite limited: it's only available in English in the United States on Android devices running 2.2 and above. When turned on, the new feature stores your voice searches and builds a statistical profile based upon the pitch and timbre of your voice and the pronunciation and pace of your speech[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews After a long battle for its place as a native iPhone app, Google Voice is finally available in the iTunes App Store. Google today announced that Google Voice for iPhone is now available in Apple's App Store, compatible with iPhones running iOS 3.1+ in the United States only[......]
According to a report from the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (OTI), U.S. citizens cough up a minimum of $59.99 every month for a complete mobile phone package that includes voice, text, and data. The only country that pays more is Canada, whose residents pay a minimum of $67.50. [......]
The Federal Communications Commission is getting ready to make its pitch for new rules that would require mobile phone companies to send out voice or text messages to subscribers once they've reached their limit, and warn them that extra charges would then apply. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has been fighting to eliminate so-called "bill shock" for some time now, which not only covers the above scenario, but also hidden charges and when customers are about to be hit with roaming charges. [......]
I wish I could say this was unexpected, but, well, let’s be honest here: My reaction to EA’s last-minute act of self-censorship was less of a “WHAT†moment and more of a dejected sigh followed by the shocking realization that, holy moly, the sky is blue today. And the grass! It’s green! When did that happen? The pieces were in place, after all[......]
