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To: iggyl who wrote (12414)	11/9/2011 5:17:35 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

Amazon Buys Siri Rival to Destroy Apple BY JANET MARAGIOGLIO \| WED NOV 09, 2011 4:26 PM mobiledia.com Amazon is purchasing speech-to-text startup Yap, hinting at plans to incorporate voice recognition in its Kindle e-readers and tablets and boost their competitive power against the iPad. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Amazon completed the acquisition in September, but neither company announced the sale. The SEC filing does not mention Amazon by name, but says Yap merged with "Dion Acquisition Sub," which is housed in an Amazon.com building in Seattle, Wash. Amazon's purchase of Yap may be a step toward adding voice-recognition technology to its Kindle products, including its e-readers and the upcoming Kindle Fire tablet. Inclusion of sophisticated voice-activated controls may give Amazon an edge against competitors like Barnes and Noble's Nook and Apple's iPad. Competition in the tablet market is fierce, with Barnes & Noble unveiling its $250 Nook Tablet this week. It has twice the storage and speed of Amazon's $200 Kindle Fire, which is expected to sell five million units this quarter as holiday purchases skyrocket. These lower-priced offerings both chase after the leading iPad, which accounts for over 80 percent of the tablet market, a position no Android-powered offering has yet been able to touch. Yap's technology may give Amazon the ability to add voice controls to its tablets capable of understanding far more than the rudimentary commands currently supported by Android software, potentially allowing the company to erode Apple's dominance. Five-year-old startup Yap has beta tested a voicemail-to-text service, but the intellectual property Amazon is expected to gain from the sale reportedly extends far beyond that simple application. "Yap is truly a leader in freeform speech recognition and driving innovation in the mobile user experience," said Paul Grim, general partner at SunBridge Partners, which funded Yap back in 2008. He further described Yap's voice recognition technology as "intuitive," calling to mind the voice-activated assistant Siri, included in Apple's iPhone 4S. Apple hasn't said whether or not it will include Siri in future iPad releases, but Amazon's Yap acquisition may give its tablets a head start if and when that possibility occurs. If Amazon puts Yap's technology to good use and releases tablets with intuitive voice recognition in the near future, it may give Android-powered tablets a stronger handhold in the market.

To: iggyl who wrote (12414)	11/9/2011 5:41:51 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Oh please... you gave your privacy and soul and first born to CrApple who even toots that it has your credit card.... sheesh...

To: iggyl who wrote (12414)	11/10/2011 10:05:10 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Congrats... CRAPple just painted a new lower low since the earnings miss... gap open at $377 will fill... not if, it's when... LMFAO...too funny.... almost every AAPL buyer from the last 2 months is losing money....

To: iggyl who wrote (12414)	11/10/2011 10:50:11 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

The European tsunami will destroy Apple this X-Mas... not looking good for CRAPple... LMFAO... too funny...

To: iggyl who wrote (12414)	11/14/2011 6:16:53 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

BREAKING...Android Ice Cream Sandwich source code released November 14, 2011 - 5:25 P.M. *By JR Raphael* ( @jr_raphael) blogs.computerworld.com Here we go, gang: Google has just released the source code for the Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Android engineer Jean-Baptiste M. Queru posted the news in the "Android Building" area of Google Groups moments ago. From Queru's post: Over at our Android Open-Source Project git servers, the source code for Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is now available. ... This is actually the source code for version 4.0.1 of Android, which is the specific version that will ship on the Galaxy Nexus, the first Android 4.0 device. ... Build configurations for other devices will come later. Queru goes on to note that the release is a large file and may take some time to become available to everyone. Now, the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich source code isn't directlysignificant from a typical user's perspective; this is raw code, after all, and not something you could just install onto your phone as-is. The real significance is two-fold: First, this means the Ice Cream Sandwich software is now considered complete. That's obviously huge. Second, this means manufacturers and third-party ROM developers can start working on prepping Ice Cream Sandwich to run on all sorts of Android phones and tablets. The source code was the one piece of puzzle they were missing up till now. The next big question is when Google's ICS flagship Galaxy Nexus phone will arrive. With the Ice Cream Sandwich OS officially out in the wild, one would imagine its launch is right around the corner; numerous leaks and rumors, in fact, suggest the phone could appear as early as this Thursday. Google has an Android-related event scheduled for Wednesday, so it's possible we may learn more then. I'll be launching a list of which devices will and won't be getting the official Android 4.0 upgrade very soon, so stay tuned. In the meantime, for more about ICS and its many new features, click over to my full Android Ice Cream Sandwich FAQ. It's on, baby -- it's on!