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Share One of my business lines is tied to Google Voice. Today I got a voice message that was automatically transcribed by Google. I’m impressed. It wasn’t perfect, but the subject matter was very abstruse. However, it nailed all of the normal-speech parts of the conversation. Based on experience, my guess is that most voice messages are fairly straightforward. [...] Share I’ve been working with the Microsoft Office 2010 beta for a few months. Like many, I’ve been wondering, what do you do to enhance products that are already chock-full of features? PowerPoint struck me as a tough one to add value to; I’m a regular speaker who builds very complex graphics-based slides, and PPT 2007 has [...] Share Software vendors are invariably after you to upgrade. Should you? If so, when? Right now, WordPress — the tool I use to run both my blogs and my Lexician.com site itself — nags me at the top of every screen: “WordPress 2.9.2 is available! Please update now.” [Exclamation point in original.] There’s nothing that tells me [...] Share If there’s nothing certain, as Ol’ Ben put it, but death and taxes, Hamlet wrestled with only part of the question in his most famous soliloquy: To be, or not to be…. For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come! (This passage must set the record for titles derived from a single chunk of text. [...] Share One of the repeated knocks against the iPad has been the lack of multitasking. You can run only one app at a time. There are lots of good reasons to knock the iPad, starting with the no-women-in-the-Apple-hierarchy name. Is single-tasking one of them? Multitasking is a computer’s ability to run multiple apps at the same time. In [...] Share Johanna Rothman has an interesting post on why senior managers seem to like waterfall project management, or, as she puts it, serial lifecycles. I do take issue with one blanket statement, however: “The projects your senior managers worked on were much simpler than the products you’re working on now.” This statement assumes either that the IT [...] Share A former colleague of mine wrote me the other day: I knew you had more than a passing interest in outsourcing. Maybe you can come up with a solution for the problem outsourcing companies in India are facing. You may know that majority of the income for outsourcing companies comes from engineering of end [...] Share Robert Scoble writes about Ford and Toyota options that add radar-based collision avoidance to your car. It’s very worth reading, especially the part about setting up the brakes to fully engage the moment you touch them when the car senses a potential collision. Sometimes technology can save our lives. Sometimes it puts them at risk. As I [...] |
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