Vlingo Faces Off With the Dragon: A Speech-to-Text Smackdown

March 11, 2010

When Apple enabled in-app purchases for iPhone applications, it seemed as though the days of “free” and “paid” versions of any given app were coming to an end. Soon, I thought, everything in the store would start out free as a teaser and soon after charge for an upgrade. That hasn’t precisel…

EFF Knocks Apple for Dumping on Devs

March 10, 2010

The first rule of Apple’s App Club is: You do not talk about App Club. Any developer who writes an app for the App Store is forbidden from making any public statements about the iPhone Developer Program Licensing Agreement. Second rule of App Club is: Said developers additionally can’t sell …

Thunder in Cupertino Makes It Rain on Wall Street

March 10, 2010

Apple has announced the iPad will hit retail shelves April 3, sending the adrenalin surging through competitors’ veins. HP and several Chinese manufacturers have announced tablets in what might be perceived as an attempt to capitalize on the not-quite-a-laptop, not-really-a-netbook category….

Valve Opens Pipeline for Mac Gaming

March 9, 2010

Valve one of the largest distributors of online games, has announced that it will build its Steam online gaming service and proprietary gaming engine, Source, available on the Mac. The service, Steamworks for the Mac, comes equipped with Steam Play, a feature that allows play on either a PC …

Urban Airship’s Flight Plan: Push Out Info, Pull In Revenue

March 9, 2010

Given the growing popularity of mobile devices and the great many applications to go with them, you would think that that new niche had plenty of room for newcomers. Many of those newcomers, though, will find it difficult to capture a great deal of consumer attention. Places like the Android…

The iPad’s Cruel Teaser

March 9, 2010

Apple debuted its first TV ads for the iPad during the Academy Awards television broadcast on Sunday, doing what Apple does best: showing us dozens of things we can do with an iPad in just a few seconds, all to the tune of some hip music we’ve never really listened to before. Yet these ads a…

iPhone Gets Down to Business With Open Source BI App

March 8, 2010

Users of apps from BIRT, the open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project, will be able to access them on the iPhone starting Monday. Actuate, which founded the BIRT project and coleads it with the Eclipse Foundation, is putting its BIRT Mobile Viewer on the App Store. that …

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