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Google Voice Local Search just launched

Google Voice Local Search just launchedRecorded ConversationDownload Squad's Brad Linder recorded the conversation.http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/06/google-launches-goog-411/skype?I live in Canada too, I tried dialing google 411 from skype and just keep getting a busy signal, not sure if that would work or not, what do you think?Microsoft wants to rule the SOFTWARE world!If you...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Voice Local Search, Google Voice, Google Inc., local search, Download Squad

Discussion threads 2007-04-06

How moribund Google Voice Search could be key to SF Google Wi-Fi AdWords

How moribund Google Voice Search could be key to SF Google Wi-Fi AdWordsThey won't do thatThey won't give you only payed results, that is not the google way.It's so close you can almost feel itSign up at Askmenow.com It's all free right now. It's a voice recognition search engine that...

Tags: Telephony, Google Inc., SF Google Wi-Fi AdWords, SF Google Wi-Fi, Google Voice Search, Google Voice

Discussion threads 2005-10-13

How moribund Google Voice Search could be key to SF Google Wi-Fi AdWords

Dean, who is Site Admin for the U.K.-based VOIP User forum, proposes an absolutely spot-on scenario for how Google Talk could work with, say, the Wi-Fi network Google hopes to build in San Francisco.I've expanded on that scenario with some research and thoughts of my own. Let's go there.Dean's...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2005-10-13

Additional Resources

IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers

Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you'll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined by Gartner analyst Ken McGhee at the firm's Symposium ITxpo. These prediction presentations...

Tags: Device, Information Technology, Gesture, ROI, Programmer, Programming, Wireless, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Development Tools, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

How green is your vendor?

Gartner analyst Simon Mingay on Tuesday unveiled ratings for technology vendors to highlight who's talking green and who's actually delivering. Just don't expect anything too quantitative just yet. Mingay's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo caught my attention given that every vendor is...

Tags: Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Yahoo, Google, DOJ play let's make a deal; Google could walk

Google and Yahoo are talking to the Department of Justice about heading off an antitrust suit over the companies' search advertising deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and Yahoo are offering up concessions to the Department of Justice to push their deal through. For Google,...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Search, Government, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?

Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...

Tags: John Chambers, Web, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Google will appeal German copyright decision

In a decision that directly conflicts with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' interpretation (Perfect10 v. Google, PDF), a German court has ruled that Google's display of a thumbnail image of a photographer's work violates his copyright. "It doesn't matter that thumbnails are much smaller...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-14

News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad Sean...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?

Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no

Microsoft announced, as expected, on Monday that the second version of its Silverlight browser plug-in is done and will be available imminently for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. An Apple iPhone port is not in the works, due to Apple restrictions,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Using your voice to pilot your computer

According to The Seattle Times, an interdisciplinary team of scientists of the University of Washington UW has developed Vocal Joystick, a software which enables people with disabilities to control their computers using the sound of their voice and without the need to use a mouse. Their virtual computer mouse driven...

Tags: Software, Pattern Recognition, Mouse, Voice Recognition, Voice, Signal Processing, Computer, Application Driver, Productivity, Mice, Telephony, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Opera 10 will be 'prettier'

Many users, especially of Apple, found Opera's latest version 9.6 unpleasant on the eye. But the company says its next major update will be prettier. The next major release of Opera for the desktop will be 'prettier' than the current version of the browser, claims the company. ...

Tags: Opera Software, Lawson Software Inc., Hicks, Web Browsers, Internet, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Opera, browser, Opera 10.0

News items 2008-10-13

Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords

When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-10-13

1.5 million Android phones pre-sold? What's up with the 16 October launch party?

As we get closer and closer to the launch of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device the rumors are heating up. The latest report comes from The Motley Fool (it hasn't been confirmed by anyone else yet) states that T-Mobile has sold out of the first we all knew that...

Tags: T-Mobile G1, Phone, T-Mobile, Sales Strategy, Blogging, Performance Management, Sales Force Management, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops

As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...

Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Google ignores some reported security problems?

Aviv Raff posted a public disclosure of a minor security risk that could be a major problem if used in conjunction with another type of problem. It's true that his discovery isn't really one that by itself should keep you up at night, but it's one that I'm surprised...

Tags: Google Inc., Security, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'

Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'Excellent video! NT.RE: Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'Apple does not have a clue about how to do high end graphics or design stuff or how to use the full power available in the touch screen world. Microsoft has been doing touch stuff a long time. The...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-11

Anatomy of an attack: <EM>The New York Times</EM> on Solaris

Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solarishmm>> Sun’s Boyle acknowledges that Sun employees participate in OpenSolaris development, but says they do so along with individual and corporate contributors such as Intel. Community registrations in the OpenSolaris community exceed 160,000, far in excess of Sun’s total employee account...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Murphy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Murph, Sun Solaris, New York Times Co., Microsoft Windows NT, Sun Products

Discussion threads 2008-10-11

Motorola Razr2 V9x (AT&T)

Photo gallery:Motorola Razr2 V9xEditors' note: The Motorola Razr V9x is almost identical to the Motorola Razr V9, but it offers additional features. This review will concentrate on the differences between the two devices.When Motorola introduced AT&T's Motorola Razr V9 last year, we were pleasantly surprised. Instead of a simple revamp...

Tags: keypad button, Motorola Razr, Motorola Inc., external display, Motorola Razr V9, AT&T Corp., Motorola Razr2, display

Product reviews 2008-10-10