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Read it and weep: Evan Williams of Twitter on Newsnight - the transcript
Newsnight got the "first British TV interview" with Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams. What did they ask him about? Demi Moore. Then it went downhill. (Updated: we found the original questions)Oh, Kirsty. And all of you…
August 6 2009, 1:39pm | Comments
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Spinvox shows its stuff, but leaves the big question unresolved
Spinvox has demonstrated to some journalists that its computers can't accurately convert run-of-the-mill voice messages to text, and by the way, it has a patent application that stresses the use of human operators instead. Has the world gone…
August 5 2009, 11:05pm | Comments
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Spinvox rebuts BBC claims over human listening for text message service
A hard-hitting response to the BBC's claims says that people don't listen to everything, and that Facebook messages were not from real callsAfter last week's accusations by the BBC that Spinvox - the speech-to-text system to turn mobile…
July 27 2009, 9:33pm | Comments
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Does the Spinvox service mostly use a computer to convert voice messages to text, or are most of them transcribed in call centres around the world? The company won't say, but BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones suspects it's the latter….In…
July 23 2009, 12:09pm | Comments
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Has Amazon just bought the biggest threat to its business?
In a surprise deal worth around $900m, Amazon has bought US web retailer Zappos - a move that heads off the threat from a fast-growing competitorWith its reach limited to selling shoes in the United States, Zappos.com is…
July 23 2009, 6:20am | Comments
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Twitter's Biz Stone: 'We still have a way to go before we're mainstream'
Last week I met up with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to discuss life at the company, and to find out what things are like inside the most talked-about startup in the world. This is an edited transcript of…
July 16 2009, 12:38am | Comments
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How vomit lady shows what's going wrong with Microsoft
Microsoft's obsession with its image is leading to a series of advertising missteps - and a conversation with Windows boss Bill Veghte suggests that has no signs of changing yetMicrosoft has been trying very hard to change its…
July 3 2009, 8:25am | Comments
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Apple warns on iPhone 3GS overheating risk
Apple's new iPhone 3GS gets hot during usage, according to anecdotal reports that have begun to emerge on the web in the fortnight since the device was released - which seems to have prompted the company to issue…
July 2 2009, 9:38am | Comments
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Put the boot into DAB, and try to Save FM
Lord Carter's Digital Britain report raised the prospect of a "digital switchover" for radio in 2015, but that leaves plenty of time for Save FM campaigns to try to stop itFormer Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie put the boot…
July 1 2009, 1:04pm | Comments
