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Microsoft Recite: useful, interesting, drop-dead simple and powerful

Microsoft Recite: useful, interesting, drop-dead simple and powerfulAccent shouldn't be relevanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/recite/archive/2009/02/15/announcement-microsoft-recite-technology-preview.aspx[i]Microsoft Recite?s voice search makes it easy to retrieve your stored thoughts and notes by using voice pattern matching. It analyzes the patterns in your speech and finds matches between two recordings -- the notes you stored on your phone,...

Tags: Microsoft Recite, drop-dead, voice, Klingon, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-06

Microsoft Recite: pointless, tiresome, plain awful

Microsoft Recite: pointless, tiresome, plain awfulYou sound troubled> Maybe it doesn?t understand my British accent,Most of the reviews I've read of Recite have been mildy postive. My guess is it does have trouble with your accent but following that with "regardless of such, it doesn?t work." Doesn't make sense. More...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Corp., accent, Microsoft Recite, WM Phone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-03-06

MWC 09: Microsoft Recite provides voice storage, search, and retrieval on Windows Mobile

I mentioned we had a chance to see some things from Microsoft Labs at Mobius 2008 in December and one of those things was the new Microsoft Recite. We were just given early access to the application that will be coming soon as a free utility for Windows Mobile 6.0...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Voice, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Recite, Telecommunications, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-02-15

Additional Resources

Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints; no Start customizations and stylus still required

Apple is safe.Point release or not, Microsoft is under the gun to come up with something better than this retread if they want to stay in the mobile device business. Make no mistake, the handset makers are not just disappointed, they are steaming about Microsoft's inability to keep up, because...

Tags: Keyboards, Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless and Mobility, phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, touch screen, Windows Mobile 6.5, ringer, mobile, Finger-friendly, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Q'n'A: Keeping the conversations flowing

I consider this blog not only to be a public facing view of my work and writings, but a mini-community. A symposium if you will, as I'm sure most of you guys wouldn't mind buying me a pint and sitting down to discuss many-a-topic I write. I...

Tags: Security, Research In Motion Ltd., Surveillance Camera, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-24

News to know: Wolfram Alpha; iPhone developers; Windows 7; Cyberwar

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web' Nova Spivak: Wolfram Alpha is Coming â€" and It Could be as...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Microsoft Recite: useful, interesting, drop-dead simple and powerful

ZDNet colleague Zack Whittaker has a way of firing me up from time to time check out my Windows Mobile post from last month and he does it again this Friday with his Microsoft Recite post. I am not sure if it is because of Zack's foreign accent, the site...

Tags: Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Voice, Microsoft Corp., Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Microsoft Recite: pointless, tiresome, plain awful

It's about time I wrote a ranting Friday post. I've been taking a look at the Microsoft Recite beta program, which is meant to help you record, search, and retrieve mental notes and reminders using speech. The problem there is the key word: "meant". After using this...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Note, Microsoft Corp., Accent, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-06

News to know: Windows Mobile 6.5; Red Hat; CRM; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Matthew Miller: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints, where's the beef? Image Gallery: Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots Garett Rogers: Microsoft responds to Android with Windows Mobile...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Red Hat Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Pre-release Windows 7 needs feature switch mode

Pre-release Windows 7 needs feature switch modeYour problem appears to be that it was NOT releasedto the public and people like yourself. This isn't even a beta and there is no way to determine what will or will not happen when it goes RTM.Of course your use of gestapo...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Pre-release Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

The Open Source Commandments

Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...

Tags: Jason Perlow, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Operating Systems, Pharaoh Rameses, Software, UNIX

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities

Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilitiesThen you haven't read much.[i]From anything I've read on these forums, which you appear to avoid reading, what they keep claiming is that there are no (well, apparently there is one now) nasty wee evil softbeasties out there doing what they...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2007-11-14

Using Google to replace Sharepoint, LimitNone's gShare bridges MS-Office/Google Apps divide

Over the last couple of weeks, I have spent a lot of my time writing about Google Apps as though it could be a replacement for Microsoft Office. I still believe that for many companies and users, it either is, will be, or can be such a replacement. There are...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Microsoft Voice Command 1.5 1.5 (Mobile)

Voice Command transforms your Smartphone into your own virtual personal assistant, letting you use your voice to look up contacts, make phone calls, get calendar information, play and control your music, as well as start programs. Voice Command makes it easier and more convenient than ever to take your digital...

Tags: Car, Phone, Mobile, Voice, Battery, Microsoft Corp., Music, Call Information, Voice-controlled, Bluetooth, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2006-11-16

Microsoft Voice Command 1.6 - Pocket PC US Version (Mobile)

Hi-res version Low-res version Voice Command transforms your Smartphone into your own virtual personal assistant, letting you use your voice to look up contacts, make phone calls, get calendar information, play and control your music, as well as start programs. Voice Command makes it easier and more convenient than ever...

Tags: Car, Phone, Mobile, PC, Voice, Microsoft Corp., Pocket PC, Call Information, Voice-controlled, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2006-11-12

Microsoft Voice Command--US Version (Smartphone only) 1.6 (Mobile)

Winner of the Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Award 2004 for Speech Applications!! Hi-res version Low-res version Voice Command transforms your Smartphone into your own virtual personal assistant, letting you use your voice to look up contacts, make phone calls, get calendar information, play and control your music, as well...

Tags: Car, Phone, Mobile, Voice, Microsoft Corp., Smartphone, Call Information, Voice-controlled, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2006-11-12

DirectRevenue's dirty laundry is out of the closet and does it ever stink

Two days ago DirectRevenue was hit with a lawsuit by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The 76 page Affirmation of Justin Brookman PDF outlined the outrageous practices of DirectRevenue including evidence of their knowledge that the software was being installed without user consent, evidence showing DirectRevenue was closely...

Tags: DirectRevenue

Blog posts 2006-04-06

Parsing Sun's rhetoric

Nick Carr gives Sun one of his tongue lashings and a bit of advice in a recent blog post:Sun Microsystems is a funny company. It jumped directly from hyperactive adolescence to midlife crisis, complete with ponytail. Ever since the dot-com crash decimated its free-spending customer base, the company’s been on...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-12-11

Intel: x86 won't encroach on Itanium

Intel: x86 won't encroach on ItaniumIntel's uncertain processor road-map (or the lack of a road...)``x86 in the driver's seatGartner's Reynolds believes that x86 servers have captured the attention and momentum of the server market. "The small servers have destroyed the growth opportunity for big iron," he said.''It is clear that...

Tags: Processors, Servers, Intel x86, Intel Itanium, Intel Corp., processor, server, Alpha

Discussion threads 2005-03-08

Dell: Red Hat needs to lower prices

Dell: Red Hat needs to lower pricesOuch! nt.WHERE ARE THE PRICES?!?!IN a story about price points, target markets, and how price of one product over another greatly affected an important business's decision, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE, NAY MANDATORY, TO INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-12-07