Guest Post by Namit Gupta
Operating mobile phones with voice instruction is not a new concept. Voice recognition technology has been around for a long time now. Several phones out there have the feature to accept general instructions in voice. But none of them can be as effective and accurate as Vlingo.
Vlingo is a popular free mobile phone application. It intelligently listens to what you say and does accordingly. Its speech to text technology is fast and very accurate. You can use various voice commands to instruct the app to perform different tasks.
Using Vlingo, you could give instructions with your voice commands to call any person either from your mobile phone book or even by dictating the mobile number, dictate and send text messages, update status on Facebook and Twitter, open other applications, send emails, search Google, find/call local businesses, book hotels, movies, restaurants and much more. Following are some examples of Voice Commands you could use with Vlingo:
Connect with friends and family...
“Where are my friends?”
“Update Facebook status; Headed to New York for the weekend!”
“Call Mom”
“Text Laura; Want to see a movie tonight?”
“Email John; Subject, Running Late; Message,...
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An amazing moment in the evolution of the company was when the giant, Google, felt Facebook's breath on its neck. This happened in a week of March 2010 (HitWise Data), when Facebook surpassed the mammoth corporation and became the most visited website in USA.
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Possibly the biggest match of the ICC World cup 2011 till now, India vs England will be taking place tomorrow, 27th February at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. The match has made enough news for all the wrong reasons. First, it was moved from Kolkata to Bengaluru, under controversial circumstances and then the ticketing mess happened at Bengaluru.
But when both the teams take center-stage tomorrow, we can expect some top quality cricket from both the teams. India is on a high after their huge victory against Bangladesh in the opening match of the world cup, while England had a tough match against the minnows, Netherlands.
ESPN, Star Sports and Star Cricket are the official broadcasters of ICC world cup 2011. You can watch India vs England match live on Star Cricket, but in case you prefer to watch India vs England online, you can do so by going to http://www.espnstar.com/cwclive/. There are more than 15 alternatives if you wish to try...
A few months back, we had seen a detailed infographic from Pingdom about the average internet speed across the globe. That data was based upon the information provided by Akamai, the world’s largest CDN provider. Now, Dando vueltas a lo de siempre has come out with a similar infographic based upon the data sourced from Internet World Stats Broadband Penetration, which lists out the average broadband speed and costs of Top 20 nations.
The infographic lets users in these 20 countries know and compare their broadband speed and cost with their peers across the globe. If you’re a US citizen you likely have an average internet access speed of 4.8 mbps and you pay a little over $3 per mbps. If you are in Japan, you are likely to have a whopping net connection of 61mbps costing just about 27 cents per mbps (*evil*)
I don't think I will be able to sleep tonight after going through these figures. Here in India, I pay $31 for 4mbps with a download limit of 20GB :|
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You would wonder how much more accessible Facebook could be, and you wouldn’t have to look far for answers. Taiwanese company HTC has unveiled two social networking phone models, which helps you access Facebook by hitting the "F" logo. This was achieved after spending two years on developing the phones.
You might ask what is new about Facebook on the phone, but with the single shining button sharing photos, music, mood and your exact location is literally on the tip of your finger; Facebook is nothing less, than your kinda world !!
The trendsetting touch world of the iPhones is challenged by this newest entrant, which targets the teenage market. Philip Blair, Product Director at HTC Europe believes that, "We are really trying to for the young and mass market. We will try to be as aggressive as we can".
These two phones are brilliantly named "ChaCha" and "Salsa". Salsa is a touchscreen only phone with a 3.4 inch screen. ChaCha has a 2.6 inch touch screen with a separate keyboard, which looks a lot like a Blackberry. HTC’s phones are Android based, with user interfaces similar to Droid Incredible and Evo 4G....
| Tablets Technical Description | HTC Flyer | Samsung Galaxy Tab |
| Screen | 7 inch, Super LCD, 1024x600 pixels resolution, 16,7 million colors | 7 inch, TFT, 1024x600 pixels, 16,7 million colors |
| Hardware and OS | 1,5 ...
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