Early Tuesday, it was reported that Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak saod in an video interview that Apple has bought Nuance, a voice recognition company. However, he says he was wrong.
“I think voice recognition is going to become, more and more, a part of these machines,” Woz said in the interview with Romil Patel, founder of TVDeck.com. “Apple’s probably thinking the same way. They recently bought the company Nuance.”
Read MoreApple “is not only poaching corporate customers from BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, it’s poaching members of RIM’s enterprise sales team, reports the “Wall Street Journal” (http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101123-712196.html).
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The listing of a 1976 Apple-1 computer in a Christie’s sale “caused quite a stir – especially over the estimated price of £100,000 – £150,000 ($US160,300 – $US240,450),” reports “IT Wire” (http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/home-it/43431).
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Wizski Industries has unveiled the HeloStrap, an accessory strap made exclusively for the Apple iPad. It has a 360° single rotating connection, which secures the iPad to the user’s grip while allowing it to rotate in the user’s hand.
The HeloStrap works with most cases. Consumers simply secure it around two opposite corners of the iPad, adjust the hand strap to their hand size and the iPad is “instantly securely mobile,” according to Paul Wizikowski, president and CEO of Wizski Industries.
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With Black Friday rapidly approaching, parents may want to get up early Friday morning to find deals, as a recent survey shows their kids are eyeing some wallet-stretching electronics this holiday season.
Across a multitude of electronic offerings, the Apple iPad leads all devices (31% interest in future purchase) among American kids ages 6-12, according to a new survey from the Nielsen research group (http://en-us.nielsen.com/content/nielsen/en_us/expertise.html). Apple’s iPod touch is also popular choice among kids, generating similar levels of interest as computers.
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