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Archive for April, 2010

ShoutOUT: Voice to Text

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2010

ShoutOUT, that lets users compose text messages in natural speech instead of typing. Is now available for the Motorola Droid in the Android Market. Promptu’s ShoutOUT for iPhone was released earlier. It’s free for typed messages but there’s a fee for voice-generated messages. Google Voice functionality in Android 2.1 offers similar capability to ShoutOUT, but [...]

Dell’s Phone/Tablet Line Leaked

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2010

Engadget has nabbed information on Dell Windows Phone 7 phones and Android talbets, expected this summer and fall. The Phone 7 Lightning device is a “portrait slider” device that houses a Snapdragon processor and a 4.1-inch display based on thin and bright OLED technology. It has a five megapixel autofocus camera, 1GB of flash with [...]

App Store Hit Parade

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 22nd, 2010

Apptizr helps you find mobile applications among the 150,000 apps in the iPhone App Store. Apptizr says their proprietary algorithm matches your interests with the right apps. But what are people buying? GigaOm’s Kevin C. Tofel says books are the most widely available, but they’re also the apps least likely to be purchased. Apptizr found [...]

Car Charging Apps

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 22nd, 2010

Hitachi and Airbiquity have announced a partnership to develop new telematics systems aimed at plug-in vehicles, says AutoBlog. The systems will allow drivers to manage charging and check the state of charge remotely as well as getting alerts about when the battery is ready. Airbiquity provides much of the back-end communications infrastructure used by General [...]

Rare Earth

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 22nd, 2010

Molycorp, which wants to mine for rare earth elements in California, has filed for an IPO to raise up to $350 million amid a growing interest in green. Molycorp is making a big bet that its mine — once the world leader in production of rare earth elements, but now a rusting relic — can [...]

Apple Flash Point

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 22nd, 2010

Adobe said this week that it will no longer pursue the ability to allow developers to create Flash apps for the iPhone/iPad. “As developers for the iPhone have learned, if you want to develop for the iPhone you have to be prepared for Apple to reject or restrict your development at anytime, and for seemingly [...]