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Google now smart assistant could rival Siri

June 29, 2012 Dan Uff

Google showed off its Siri clone Wednesday, and she not only seemed to get the answers right, she also threw in photos, too. “Who is the prime minister of Japan?” a Google exec asked his Android device before a large audience at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco. The response on the screen: “Yoshihiko Noda,” […]

Rumor: Amazon buys Siri's speech rival, Yap

November 9, 2011 Dan Uff

Amazon may be quietly if unintentionally gunning after Apple’s Siri with future Kindles, a newly discovered SEC filing (PDF) has revealed. Using a shell company known as Dion Acquisition Sub to keep the deal out of its usual SEC filings, Amazon has bought Yap, which had a voicemail-to-text service but had also focused heavily on […]