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TellMe or Siri

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
27-11-2011
technology

Peo­ple are infat­u­ated with Apple announc­ing it. It’s good mar­ket­ing, but at least as the tech­no­log­i­cal capa­bil­ity you could argue that Microsoft has had a sim­i­lar capa­bil­ity in Win­dows Phones for more than a year, since Win­dows Phone 7 was introduced.

(Microsoft exec­u­tive Craig Mundie told Forbes about Siri)

Are you kid­ding me?

Watch this and com­pare the tech­nolo­gies for yourself.

 

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Nokia and Microsoft, oil and water just don’t mix

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
14-02-2011
technology

Feel­ing a sense of des­per­a­tion from these two com­pa­nies. Nokia makes a deal with the devil. Microsoft finds devices for it’s soft­ware. But will Nokia users flee for some­thing else. Sym­bian devel­op­ers and users are out on the curb.

from com­put­er­world:

Nokia on Sun­day hinted that Microsoft essen­tially won a bid­ding war against Google to sup­ply soft­ware to the world’s largest hand­set maker and that the soft­ware giant agreed to pay “bil­lions” of dol­lars for the privilege.

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Microsoft’s secret tablet, really?

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
23-09-2009
culture, objects, software, technology
Giz­modo cre­ated a post today that pro ports video of a new Microsoft tablet device.
Do we see Microsoft hav­ing to com­pete and maybe even innovate?
If we are to believe the video and images that Giz­modo has posted this is a hinged tablet that uses a styl­ist and touch­screen combined.
It is intriguing.
Why make a hinged device? Because it allows you to make a more com­pact device. It also cre­ates two infor­ma­tion spaces. A menu or selec­tion side — a finder of sorts and an active side where the inter­ac­tion with the appli­ca­tion takes place. It could work but, the hinge has been the death of many a lap­top. It doesn’t thrill me.
Con­sumer hokey.
I also see the jour­nal con­cept with the same dis­taste as Time Machine’s sci-fi graph­ics. Is the tablet a con­sumer device? Is it really just a big­ger smarter iPhone?
A sty­lus.
A sty­lus is an inter­est­ing addi­tion. How­ever we can’t write as fast as we can type. Will the hand­writ­ing recog­ni­tion be good?
I had an early Palm and before that the much more inter­est­ing New­ton. Can this new pad or Apple’s really change com­put­ing as much as the orig­i­nal PDA? Apple cre­ated a new plat­form with the iPhone. Can they extend it’s power in a new tablet. I can’t wait to see what Apple has to offer.
Who will make the next dom­i­nant device?
Giz­modo cre­ated a post today that pro ports video of a new Microsoft tablet device.
Do we see Microsoft hav­ing to com­pete and maybe even innovate?
If we are to believe the video and images that Giz­modo has posted this is a hinged tablet that uses a styl­ist and touch­screen combined.
It is intriguing.
Why make a hinged device? Because it allows you to make a more com­pact device. It also cre­ates two infor­ma­tion spaces. A menu or selec­tion side — a finder of sorts and an active side where the inter­ac­tion with the appli­ca­tion takes place. It could work but, the hinge has been the death of many a lap­top. It doesn’t thrill me.
Con­sumer hokey.
I also see the jour­nal con­cept with the same dis­taste as Time Machine’s sci-fi graph­ics. Is the tablet a con­sumer device? Is it really just a big­ger smarter iPhone?
A sty­lus.
A sty­lus is an inter­est­ing addi­tion. How­ever we can’t write as fast as we can type. Will the hand­writ­ing recog­ni­tion be good?
I had an early Palm and before that the much more inter­est­ing New­ton. Can this new pad or Apple’s really change com­put­ing as much as the orig­i­nal PDA? Apple cre­ated a new plat­form with the iPhone. Can they extend it’s power in a new tablet. I can’t wait to see what Apple has to offer.
Who will make the next dom­i­nant device?
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