By Greg Mills
The Microsoft drums are pounding again for the Surface iPad wannabe. Feeling a bit stupid this morning, I went to the Microsoft/store online and poked around. What I found was so Microsoft. It seems nothing changes at Redmond.
Read MoreI’m not yet ready to get all my books at Apple’s iBookstore or Amazon (too hard to share ’em), but I’ve pretty much gone all digital when it comes to newspapers, preferring to read ’em on my iPad. Evidently, I’m not alone.
ComScore (www.comscore.com), a company that “measures the digital world,” recently released a study of tablet newspaper and magazine readership based on data from its comScore TabLens service. The study found that nearly two in five U.S. tablet owners read newspapers and/or magazines on their device in August, with one in 10 reading publications almost daily.
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An Apple patent (number 20120264329) for a dock with a movable connector for a display device has popped up at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
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A new Apple patent (number 20120265528) at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office shows that Apple is working on ways to beef up Sir. The patent is for using context information to facilitate processing of commands in a virtual assistant.
Per the patent, a virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user’s intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user’s input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input.
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Why doesn’t Apple have a web-based Map service like Google Maps? Makes you wonder.
You also have to wonder why Apple isn’t using its own maps for everything internal (see the graphic). I’m just sayin’.
— Dennis Sellers
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