Ford and Nuance Make Voice Command Faster, Friendlier, and More Personal
New technology developed by Ford and Nuance bring MyFord Touch driver connect technology to Ford vehicles. It is now easier to control your vehicle using only your voice. They have increased the number of first-level commands from 100 to 10,000. This makes it easier to control your vehicle using fewer steps and more natural language. [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7-23-2010
Google Voice Gets Less Annoying The concept of Google Voice is an awesome one. A single number to rule all of your phone numbers, including features like call recording, custom forwarding, and voicemail transcription. I’m loving it. It’s just implemented sort of weird. One of those awkward design choices was with the mobile version. Whenever [...]
Read MoreAward Tour: Help Kickstart 2011 Black Weblog Awards
For the past six years, black bloggers and their audiences have campaigned and wrung their hands in anticipation of that Black Webblog Awards. Honoring the best and most engaging bloggers, the award spans over 90 countries and features 35 categories including Best Design, Best Business Blog, and Blog of the Year. As the voting for [...]
Read MoreWhite iPhone 4 Gets Delayed…Again
From shutting down iPhone 4 pre-orders, to low iPhone 4 stock once it hit the shelves, to “death grip” issues; It seemed as if Apple was turning a corner as a result of finally addressing “Antennagate” and with recording stupid-large earnings this year. Now Apple has to deal with consumer’s lashes over not having the white iPhone 4 until who knows when. More inside…
Read MoreTech Review: Brothatech Demos Flipboard
I got a chance to play around with the new Flipboard iPad app (yes, I managed to sign into Facebook and Twitter before Flipboard’s servers were overwhelmed). So I decided to shoot a video preview so you can see what the app looks like and how you add, navigate, and interact with content that is seamlessly streamed to [...]
Read MoreOpen the Evernote Trunk For New Apps
For those of us who are diehard Evernote users, last week was like Christmas (or Hannakah or Kwanzaa) in July!! Evernote officially released “Evernote Trunk”. In the past, Black Web 2.0 has outlined a few reasons why Evernote is so valuable and a part of our daily routine (here). The Trunk as a few of us are referring to it has just doubled (or tripled) the reasons why Evernote should be an app you must touch many times a day. Let’s get to some background information on the new service.
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