At this point, Amazon's plans are still a mystery. But making its apps more fun and engaging makes a lot more sense then spewing out another Android phone.
Like one part Siri and one part morning news update, a new app called Winston could change the way you consume news online.
Zirtual wants to make it easier and more affordable for busy professionals to retain a personal assistant.
The company is positioning Watson as a smarter successor to Siri, Apple's popular (but often ditzy) iPhone virtual assistant.
Today Nuance announced Nina, a collection of personal assistant technologies that will bring Siri-like functionality to customer service mobile apps for the likes of banks and insurance companies.
It’s pretty clear now that you can’t have a modern smartphone operating system without powerful Siri-like voice commands. So it’s not too surprising to see familiar-sounding voice commands in the latest update to RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Developer Alpha release.
As …
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Forget the company conference room. Coworkers no longer need to be in the same office space — let alone the same time zone — to hold a productive progress reports or brainstorming session. We asked nine young entrepreneurs about how …
Apple’s Steve Jobs saw the potential in Siri back when it was a standalone application, but when it came to integrating the software into the iPhone as a virtual assistant he was resistant to keeping the name Siri, according to …
The coolest feature in Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 may be something unexpected: a smart, voice-operated virtual assistant — simply called Assistant — that sounds like an evolutionary upgrade over the iPhone’s current voice commands.
We’ve been hearing for some time …
Curt Carlson, the president and chief executive of SRI International, is very excited about the Siri intelligent agent technology that his organization sold to Apple in April for a rumored $150 – $250 million. He expects it will show up …
