You might recall the drama that resulted when electronic taxi-hailing services first hit the streets of New York City, something we expounded on earlier this week when an NYC judge approved a one-year test pilot for using apps to summon a ride. It didn't take long for Uber to get permission from the Taxi and Limousine Commission to offer its service. Meanwhile, rival Hailo has launched a beta test without going through the proper channels, causing the TLC to condemn its usage.
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New York City approves its first taxi e-hailing service
BlackBerry 10 continues slow grind to relevance as Skype finally incoming
BlackBerry continues to slide out of relevance for virtually all smartphone users as competing devices gain popularity. One of the big issues for people who still like BlackBerry devices is that there are so few developers producing apps for the BlackBerry devices that it can take a very long time for BlackBerry fans to get their hands on new applications. These apps have been available on other smart devices for years in some cases.
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Ford’s fuel-efficiency app call wants to decipher your car’s brain
Ford has issued a challenge to software developers to urge them to create applications for smartphones and other connected devices that help customers optimize their personal fuel efficiency. Ford wants the apps to use the OpenXC platform. The goal for Ford is to help customers share, compare, and learn to optimize their own personal fuel efficiency when driving.
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BBC fans the fanboy flames with streaming snark
It took the BBC six months to bring its iPlayer Radio app over from iOS to Android, but the results are even better than on the iPhone, at least according to the corporation's executive producer for mobile. Stoking the never-ending Android/iOS fanboy arguments, the BBC's James Simcock says the app - which brings streaming radio both live and on-demand, as well as behind-the-scenes videos - features improvements that "make it even better" than the first-gen software for iPhone released back in October.
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Swype now available via Google Play
Nuance has rolled out its latest update for Swype, bringing with it some new keyboard themes, and a few other improvements and and change. The big news, however, is that for the first time Android users can get the keyboard app from Google Play, which has a limited-time special price of $0.99, after which point you'll have to shell out an unspecified amount.
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Google tipped to attain Wavii natural language startup
Google has been said to have acquired Wavii, a natural language processing startup. Wavii is a service that is said to operate the same way as Summly, the news app that was recently swiped up by Yahoo. Both services search for news stories from all around the web, and then create short summaries of the main points of these stories. While Summly gathers separate news articles, Wavii collects entire stories, and provides links to several different sources reporting on the story.
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Mobile Facebook Pages redesign targets Yelp
Facebook is rolling out a revamp to its mobile Facebook Pages today that will bring a new layout designed to get more information to you with one glance. The new design layout is aimed towards businesses and it makes all of the business's important information pop-out, including the business's address, hours, price range, and more. It also brings forward a more noticeable star ratings system, similar to Yelp, to let you know what others think of the business.
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DirecTV channels Siri-style speech for smartphone controller
Shouting at your TV will soon have more of an impact than just raising your blood pressure, with news that DirecTV expects to update its smartphone remote app with voice-control this summer. Capable of searching through live TV and on-demand content, and - like Apple's Siri - recognizing natural language rather than requiring the viewer memorize specific controls, CNET reports, the functionality will not only allow you to chatter to your DirecTV box in the living room, but remotely command it while out and about.
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Pizza Hut Xbox 360 app lets you order food without leaving the console
When you are on a weekend gaming binge there are times when you're hungry, but you don't want to drop out of the game to go and order your pizza. Not to mention the fact that pizza delivery people can be incredibly irritating to talk to because they always want to put you on hold and you have to listen to a long list of specials before you can order whatever it is you really want. Pizza Hut has a very interesting idea to make ordering your favorite pie a snap, right from your Xbox.
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Xbox SmartGlass brings support for the Kindle Fire
Larry Hryb, the Director of Programming for Xbox Live, stated today that Xbox SmartGlass now supports Amazon's selection of Kindle Fire tablets. It's coming in about half a year late, seeing as the app was released for regular Android devices way back in October of last year. With the Xbox SmartGlass app now available in the Amazon App Store, owners of the affordable Kindle Fire can enjoy an extension of the Xbox Live experience with their tablets.
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Yahoo iOS app adds Summly content curation
Yahoo has updated its iPhone app today, which most notably integrates a new Yahoo feature known as Summaries, which comes from the fruits of the labor of a 17-year-old app developer who released news summary app called Summly back in November last year. Yahoo bought the app for $30 million, and have integrated the app's features in their updated app.
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Facebook Home installations eclipse 500,000 mark
The Facebook Home Android launcher has proven to reasonably popular during its first week of availability. So far, Home has been downloaded over 500,000 times via the Google Play store in a bit over week of availability. While hundreds of thousands of installations sounds good for Facebook, Home is still on shaky ground.
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