Dragon speech recognition coming to UK iPhones, iPads soon
TechEye, along with a bunch of other hacks and hackettes - though mainly hacks - were at Nuance's launch of Dragon Search and Dictation app for the iPad and iPhone at the Landmark Hotel last Thursday....
View ArticleBelgian voice farmers Lernout and Hauspie go down
The guys that ran Lernout & Hauspie were sentenced to five years in clink by a court in Belgium. Pol Hauspie and Jo Lernout were found guilty of fraud, along with a number of other suits that used...
View ArticleMan promises cheap space travel
A man reckons he can get you and your girlfriend into space for about $200,000 where you can indulge your fancies in a pressurised environment. But read on....The White Bull guys are holding their...
View ArticleMMOs are becoming part and parcel of modern culture
Massively multiplayer online (MMO) games are a growing phenomenon, expanding to new areas and adapting to new business models. The genre has become integral to the game industry and is quickly...
View ArticleApple's Tim Cook piles on the spin
Every Messiah needs a decent follow up act to make sure that their legacy continues. Jesus had Paul of Tarsus who re-invented his teachings and created Christianity, and now it seems that Steve of...
View ArticleNvidia's Tegra 2 3D unveiled
A deep throat has leaked an image of Nvidia's Mobile World Congress presentation to TechEye - giving a glimpse of what the jolly green goblin has in store for punters and handset makers this year....
View ArticleChinese hackers penetrate multinational oil giants
Hackers in China are causing havoc among computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies, according to a new report by McAfee. Security outfits have warned that this type of attack could...
View ArticleMoD faced barrage of botnet attacks
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) had a barrage of six hundred thousand automated botnet attacks a day, an ex-employee has told Techeye. The source, who worked for the organisation three years ago, also...
View ArticleCaptured by a Captcha
There I was, minding my own business, as usual, working not out of my wireless cave that day, but in my local internet cafe, since I don't own a computer and do all my email and surfing chores at the...
View ArticleStart-up love-in at White Bull proves cooperation lives
Jaumo Baro Toress, at Activa, responsible for business strategy and finance, claimed confidently that 80 percent of startups coached and encouraged by www.barcelona.cat, had made it after four years...
View ArticleAMD shows off its 28nm GPU
Showgoers at AMD's Fusion 2011 show were wowed by AMD showing off its next generation graphics processor, based on 28nm process technology. Corporate Vice President and General Manager of AMD's...
View ArticleBrit tech writer stunned to be the voice of Siri
While the world and its dog is getting all excited about Apple's Siri software, Siri itself turns out to be a former British tech journalist called Jon Briggs who was jolly surprised at his new role....
View ArticleThe Revelation of AMD
The Revelation of John of Patmos, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John after he...
View ArticleApple threatens to kill Evi
Apple is furious that a Cambridge-based upstart has produced a better version of voice activated service Siri and is threatening to pull it from the App Store. Evi was placed on Apple's App Store and...
View ArticleSwedes about to kill off bank notes
The first country to introduce bank notes in 1661 is about to follow the advice of one of its pop stars and replace them with cyber transactions. According to USA Today, Bjoern Ulvaeus, former member...
View ArticleIntel Ultrabook adverts mystify the world
One of Intel's latest Ultrabook adverts is stirring up a stink on YouTube, where its enlightened users are debating whether the short film - which appears to parody films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden...
View ArticleDon’t buy Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks, Intel says. Wait for next year
Intel will re-invent computing, senior executive Dadi Perlmutter said as he kicked off the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) at the Mosc One West (MOW) conference centre. Dadi is tipped as the next boss of...
View ArticleIntel ekes out more Haswell details
Kirk Skaugen, a long time Inteleer is now into thin clients, or should we say tablets, smartphones and Ultrabooks.Intel is really excited about touch and excited about Windows 8. All across the world...
View ArticleHackers get free access to Ubisoft
Russian hackers have worked out a way that they can gain free access to Ubisoft's online game offerings. According to Game Informer, the hack highlights the problems for games companies who put their...
View ArticleChina looking to outsource to the US
US local governments are providing sweeteners to Chinese companies in the hope they will set up shop. Yahoo news said the free market was not providing places like Alabama with jobs and the region has...
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