Lost In Translation : Google Faces Significant Challenges To Build Babel Phone

For years, Augmented Reality has been a technology threatening to happen. Like it's cousin, virtual reality, it's something of a science-fiction staple, and a technology that has been hovering on the sidelines for at least a...

As someone who has spent decades doing research in automatic speech recognition (ASR) I had become resigned to people I met having no understanding of what I was working on "Oh you mean voiceprints?" or "Is that for reading for...

For online or phone orders, Apple's new iPad arrived in a brown box, just like every other UPS delivery. Unlike the Apple stores (which also seemed fairly tame), there was no fanfare, shining lights, no screaming or weak-kneed...

Apple has filed yet another lawsuit against Samsung, this time in the US. Apple is claiming that Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone infringes upon some of its patents and has requested a ban on sales of the phone in the United...

In a joint event this morning Samsung and Google launched what is expected to be a powerful challenger to the iPhone 4S: the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which is the first to run on Google's highly anticipated Android Ice Cream...

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer will be the first Android tablet to receive an update to Android 4.0, 'Ice Cream Sandwich', announced today by Google in tandem with the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone.. "[The] Transformer will...

Search engine giant Google has updated the Google Translation app for Android with support for additional languages. The company said that it enhanced the Conversation Mode in Google Translate for Android, which allows travellers...

The iPhone 5 will introduce "the most revolutionary user interface in history" according to the electronic edition of Forbes, citing an acclaimed Apple commentator and investor. The enthusiastic tone is based on details...

Software giant is expected to release the update to its Windows Phone 7 platform, code named Mango, by the end of this year.The company is expected to bring a whole batch of new and improved features to the fledgling platform....

Microsoft appears to have leaked details of some of the features that will be coming to Windows Phone 7 handsets courtesy of the 'Mango' update - and they're heavily centred around the company's Bing search engine...

Microsoft is planning to use cloud-based speech recognition technology in order to overtake rival companies in the smartphone market, tech news site Computer World reported on Wednesday.The Redmond-based software giant is...

At an event held at Google HQ in London, Amit Singhal, one of the four Google Fellows worldwide, hinted at what comes next in the convoluted world of online search from the biggest search engine around. Singhal is one of the most...

In a major boost for travellers who often have to deal with linguistic barriers while exploring unfamiliar destinations, Google has announced it is working on a smartphone software technology that can translate several foreign...

Reuters has discovered that Google first consumer product, the Nexus One Android-based smartphone, is quite family friendly as it automatically censors obscene words. The online news outlet found out that the device's voice to...

The trifecta that was Apple's iPhone introduction in January 2007 was on account of the successful introduction of a software platform and a truly revolutionary device, coupled with a massive surge in the functionality of iTunes...