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Google now smart assistant could rival Siri

June 29, 2012 Dan Uff

Views: 12 Google showed off its Siri clone Wednesday, and she not only seemed to get the answers right, she also threw in photos, too. “Who is the prime minister of Japan?” a Google exec asked his Android device before a large audience at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco. The response on the […]

Rumor: Amazon buys Siri's speech rival, Yap

November 9, 2011 Dan Uff

Views: 7Amazon may be quietly if unintentionally gunning after Apple’s Siri with future Kindles, a newly discovered SEC filing (PDF) has revealed. Using a shell company known as Dion Acquisition Sub to keep the deal out of its usual SEC filings, Amazon has bought Yap, which had a voicemail-to-text service but had also focused heavily […]