John Markoff in his New York Times blog post, Google, iPhone and the Future of Machines That Listen, raises some important issues. He is talking about Google’s new speech recognition service for the iPhone, which was released on Monday.
He suggests that it will understand you most accurately when you speak to it just the way you enter queries into the Google search box. .. The accuracy is far from 100 percent, and probably not even 95 percent (Google execs demurred when I asked if they had any meaningful accuracy statistics). My experience is that it captures your voice query substantially more than half the time, and that in itself is a revelation.
Your cellphone can be your RBC ATM
Could your cell phone become your ATM (automatic teller machine)? RBC Royal Bank seems to be moving in that direction. There’s a new mobile payment system by RBC that lets users text money from their mobile phones.
Got a swanky internet enabled cell phone / mobile phone? Then check out http://mippin.com via your mobile web browser. I'm been having a play with it for a few days and it's good stuff!
It's packed with news and downloads for your mobile phone and cell phone. It's brilliant on the iPhone.
According to a new study released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, Americans are now more reliant on their mobile phones than their landline phones. When the research firm mounted a similar study two years earlier, respondents still cited landline phones as the more essential technology.
"The preferences have flipped," said Pew Research associate director John Horrigan. "During that timeframe, people have gotten new devices that have more capabilities. People have more experience using cell phones for text messaging and other information tools. That has helped pushed cell phones as 'go to' devices."
I got an email from Ricardo over at moipal.com, a mobile social network and free mobile game for your mobile phone.
MoiPal is a friend you create on the internet and that lives in your phone. With MoiPal you can play fun games or just hang out and have a talk with some other pals. Choose your clothes and friends, compete and explore a virtual world full of excitement. To get MoiPal for free, just go to:
moipal.com
Nuts Magazine in the UK is offering up Lucy Pinder to your mobile phone. For less than a pint of beer you can download topless Lucy Pinder Wallpapers and topless Lucy Pinder mobile video clips direct to your mobile phone.
The mobile wallpapers cost £1 and the mobile video clips costs £2. To get your hands on the latest mobile video clip of a topless Lucy Pinder Text "Nuts101" to 63456 for eyeball-scorching Lucy topless video!
More info at nuts.co.uk/mobile
Backing up your Mobile Phone data is real easy with "Bubble". Bubble is a subscriber based service that allows you to backup and restore all your mobile phone contacts over the air, like making a phone call. No cables, no cradles, no problem. So you can bubble your phone anywhere, anytime.
Bubble is more adavanced than a straight forward data back up and restore service. It allows you to do a fully automated synchronisation between your mobile phone and your “Bubble”. This means during a synchronisation your phone will automatically work out what information has changed since your last sync and sends only the new changes to your bubble. Meanwhile, your bubble automatically works out if you have made any changes via the web site and downloads these to your phone.
So my wife doesn't go all Jedi on my arse about the Christina Aguilera mobile wallpapers, I thought I should put one up for the ladies. cellphone-wallpapers.net has a free David Beckham mobile wallpaper for you to download. Get it here.
As promised, I said I'd pick out one or two of the free mobile wallpapers on cellphone-wallpapers.net - There's a great selection of free Christina Aguilera wallpapers available for download to your mobile. Check them out here.
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