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DirecTV Taps Into Your Phone

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You rely on your smartphone for many things. One area that is lacking is integration with your TV watching. At best, the smartphone was used as a simple remote control to change channels. New apps make use of your phone as a search tool and scheduler. Finally, the phone and TV might really work together.

DirecTV Taps Into Your Phone

This summer, DirecTV will release into beta its latest app, DirecTV Voice. They have been working with Nuance, creators of Dragon Naturally Speaking, to create a voice controlled app to search DirecTV channels for your favorite shows. Their goal is to finally get rid of scrolling through the program grid displayed on the TV screen to find programs.

By using voice recognition, they are trying to also get away from pushing buttons or sliding through nested menus. Nuance is the county’s premier voice recognition specialists so they plan this release to have a high rate of success with this voice-driven application. Think of it as Siri with infinite knowledge of TV shows and movies.

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iOS 7 Could Fall Flat

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There is no doubt that iOS is in desperate need of upgrading. It has been around too long in it’s current state. Android and more specifically Windows Phone have a much more intuitive and modern look. Apple even borrowed some of Androids notification goodness in iOS 5. Now it seems that Apple may borrow some … Read more

Google Now Comes To iPhone & iPad

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The popular Android personal assistant has not come to the iPad and iPhone but I don’t look for it to replace Siri anytime soon. Even though I have a love hate relationship with Siri there is a deeper integration that with Google Search which is where Google Now is buried. First thing is to fire … Read more

Apple Outs A New iPhone Ad: The Camera

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Apple outs their new iPhone 5 commercial heavily advertising the wonders of the 5’s camera. For years now, Apple has been leading the industry in camera quality, starting with the 3GS and really coming to fame with the 4.

But, today, things are a bit different. With the Lumia 920 leading the industry with the best overall shooter, the HTC One right behind it with only a 4MP rating and the brand new SG4 calling it a close tie with the iPhone 5, things are surely different.

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Schmidt: South Koreans Great Capitalists, iPhone Too Expensive, Microsoft Not Credible, etc

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Q&A with Eric Schmidt hosted by WSJ’s AllThingsD, it’s long so here are the takeaways. An audience member notes that Windows Phone chief Terry Myerson of Microsoft just accused Google of mobilizing to  squash Facebook Home, that he “’wouldn’t be shocked if Google were trying to block out Facebook Home right now,’ but what’s to … Read more

Atom Will Freshen Up Your iPhone’s Lock Screen

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From the Jailbreak Community for the iPhone comes a new app that will give your lock screen some more functionality missing from iOS 6. It’s called Atom and it allows you to add 6 icons to your lock screen that you can open by dragging a grabber button over the app icon you want to … Read more

Was Foxconn Trying To Slip Apple Substandard iPhones?

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We all know how brutal Foxconn is  with its employees, but every once in a while a disgruntled “staffer” will leak information about the climate inside the tech manufacturing giant for Apple. While this is just rumor and unsubstantiated,  The Register cites a report in China Business that anywhere from 5-8 million unidentified handsets where … Read more

Windows RT is much better than competition

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First things first. I don’t have a Blackberry Playbook, HP Touchpad (I sold it). I don’t have Android Tablet with ICS or up installed. I sold them on eBay and bought a nice Surface Pro for me. That puts my tests incomplete, but they gave me a basic idea. Since Playbook and Touchpad have minimal … Read more

OtterBox Defender Cases Just Got Smarter

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OtterBox has just announced that they are educating their Defender Series Cases for the iPhone 4/4S (What about the 5?) with a new feature called iON Intelligence. The iON Intelligence Defender Series Case features a built in 1450mAh battery that will double your battery life.  It’s not just the extra mAh power that makes this … Read more