Jolicloud netbook OS heads for universal debut
March 17, 2010
Looks like the Jolicloud operating system will be made available internationally to folks running netbooks, where it will come in both English and French flavors with plans for other languages in the pipeline. It would be interesting to see just how many society will take up the Jolicloud offer even though it is free, since Windows XP still rules supreme with the soon-to-come Google Chrome OS more than capable of making a big splash on its debut as well. Perhaps Jolicloud has already talked to other netbook manufacturers to include it in their machines - who knows?
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Latest Zune Player Comes Language Localized
January 27, 2010
It seems like there is more than one surprise in the latest Zune software update. Apparently the latest version is additionally language localized. Thus far, Microsoft hasn’t mentioned any plans to sell its Zune hardware outside the US, and the Zune player software isn’t available on the German Zune.net website either, but it seems that once you install the latest Zune player on a non-English PC, all the dialogs automatically change to a different language (German in that case). While it isn’t entirely clear why Microsoft did that just yet, a smart bet would be that it’s intending to expand the Zune HD hardware to other countries, or perhaps that it might be rolling out a Zune service launch in various universal markets. The rumors have often indicated that Windows Mobile 7 would have Zune features built-in, so that would certainly justify the need for the Zune player to be available in various languages. Hopefully Microsoft will shed more light on that at next month’s Mobile World Congress, and whether they do, it’s certainly going to be an event that we’re all looking forward to.
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SHAPE Services Business Card Reader For BlackBerry
December 31, 2009
Business card readers are handy little things, as they held you scan knowledge into your mobile device without having to manually enter all that data. Now SHAPE Services has announced that it will be releasing a BlackBerry version of its popular Business Card Reader application. The Business Card Reader will recognize business cards in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. whether your language isn’t on the list, you’ll have to rely on the promise that more languages will be added in future versions.
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Pyramid Talk clock from Sanyo
December 24, 2009
Sanyo rolls back the years with an updated version of the Pyramid Talk clock, where that model keeps up with the times thanks to LED lighting alongside the ability to speak the term, weather and temperature input in two languages - Japanese (obviously) and English whenever the pyramid's top is given a couple of presses in quick succession. Too poor that is a Japan-only device at instance of publishing, and here's hoping that Sanyo will export the Pyramid Talk clock elsewhere around the world as it is an interesting way to wake up.
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Automatic Captions In YouTube
November 19, 2009
It looks like Google has just made YouTube a lot more accessible to dead and hearing-impaired folks. With robotic captions (auto-caps) in YouTube, captions can be processed through Google’s robotic speech recognition (ASR) technology to offer motorized captions to the videos. It uses the same voice recognition algorithms used in Google Voice. Of course, the captions certainly won’t be perfect, but we’re certain they’ll be a big help. It’s currently only able to insert captions on English language speech, but Google has been cool ample to offer users the choice to use its robotic translation system to read the captions in 51 languages, now how cool is that? Check out the official details here.
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