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Android ups the ante on voice activation

by Eric Benderoff

Why type a text message when you can speak one? (Or maybe you can make an actual call?) Also in today’s App Industry Roundup, we look at the cable industry’s new embrace of the iPad and Apple’s mixed messages about nudity.

Can you hear me now?

When it works, it’s hard not to Android ups the ante on voice activation[...]

Farewell, Yahoo!

They say that all good things must come to an end, but it was honestly starting to feel like my work here at Yahoo! would never be one of them.

And yet, after four and a half years, it is. Today is my last day as a tech blogger with Yahoo!, and looking Farewell, Yahoo![...]

Company behind magicJack to banish calling costs

By PETER SVENSSON,

NEW YORK – The company behind the magicJack, the Internet phone gadget heavily advertised on television, has another trick up its sleeve: free phone calls from computers, smart phones and iPads.

The cost of phone calls routed over the Internet has been on a long slide. There are already a multitude Company behind magicJack to banish calling costs[...]

Android 2.2 Carries Out Phone Users’ Spoken Orders

Adam Dickter,

If your Android phone already seems more like a personal assistant, wait until you have the ability to give it orders. Google’s Android 2.2 now features Voice Search with Voice Actions, an app that enables smartphones to set reminders and alarms, take dictation for and send e-mails or texts, browse the Internet, get directions, Android 2.2 Carries Out Phone Users’ Spoken Orders[...]

Google Defends Net Neutrality Plan

By Ian Paul

Despite a high degree of opposition, Google is defending its net neutrality proposal co-authored with broadband and wireless provider Verizon. The search giant on Thursday issued counterarguments on six points (Google calls them myths) that the company believes have been misunderstood about its proposal. Google says the proposed framework defends net neutrality, would Google Defends Net Neutrality Plan[...]