CNET Update - Talk to the ad with mobile Voice Ads
CNET Update - Talk to the ad with mobile Voice Ads
2013-04-02
for once you can talk back to a
commercial I'm Bridget Carey and this is
your scene mfc apparently it's not
enough to ask your phone a question but
now you can talk to the advertisements
on your phone nuance the company behind
dragon speech recognition software has
launched a service called voice ads so
brands can build mobile ads that will
respond to your voice commands the
company demoed the concept with a magic
8-ball that responds to questions these
ads also tap into a phone's location
with GPS and Wi-Fi to target users when
they're near a store mobile advertising
is an area that is primed for growth as
everyone wants to figure out how to make
more money from eyeballs on smartphones
but let's hope these voices are more
clever and funny than annoying keep your
eye on area the TV streaming service is
not only about to expand to more metro
areas but it's also said to be talking
with ATT and dish about a partnership to
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The Wall Street Journal Aereo's service
is designed for people who don't already
have a television provider for about
eight bucks a month users get live local
over-the-air broadcast television to
watch on their pcs apple iphone and
ipads as well as Apple TV and the Roku
major broadcasters including seen its
parent company CBS are suing area for
copyright violation since it retransmits
over-the-air programming without
permission from the broadcasters but
area scored a victory this week a
federal appeals court in New York held
the ruling that the system does not
violate broadcaster copyrights now the
TV networks must win an appeal at the
Supreme Court if they want to stop area
ebay same-day shipping service called
eBay now is only in three US cities but
the CEO of ebay told fortune that he
thinks it could eventually be available
everywhere an eBay is looking to partner
with delivery trucks to get the service
in more areas same day shipping is the
next battleground for online shopping
Google started testing a service last
week in San Francisco there are also
reports of Walmart and Amazon looking
into same-day shipping every April
Fool's Day dozens of brands pull pranks
announcing bogus new features or gadgets
hulu added fake shows like itchy and
scratchy too
shiba took a job at Google's Nexus Q and
the Xbox Kinect with the Shiva sphere a
motion-sensing game console that can
measure your anger Twitter said it would
charge for using vows mm-hmm and Google
likes to think it's king of the clown's
its various departments made up eight
different pranks including shutting down
YouTube and Lady new search for smells
on your phone amazing how they have time
to come up with all these gags yet
keeping Google Reader is just not a good
use of the company's resources that's
your tech news update you can find more
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studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey
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