Speech Recognition Interface Uncovered in iOS 5

5 IOS Apple iPhone, the iPhone and the iPod is the way, now that the beta software is available to developers IOS5, the tracks of a partially hidden feature was discovered: the Nuance speech recognition is Rumor has it that perfectly integrated in IOS 5.

Although the next voice recognition features that are not yet in operation in the IOS 5 beta, parts of it are visible in the interface. As you can see from the chart above, 9to5 Mac points the microphone icon, placed next to the spacebar on your keyboard IOS is used throughout the operating system. When a user touches the microphone icon, it opens the voice recognition interface to see the right of the graph above.

So far, it seems that the voice recognition capability is only integrated into the iPhone and iPod Touch, but 9to5 Mac says it's not too late for that also appears in the version of IOS iPad 5 at the time they leave the market.

Not surprisingly, Apple is trying to keep secret the existence of the new features. For the integration of Nuance speech recognition, the secret probably has something to do with incomplete negotiations between Apple and Nuance, the company behind the voice recognition engine of the Dragon for Mac and PC favorably reviewed the last month.

While last year Apple bought speech recognition Siri implementation capacity, according to MacRumors, Apple is still in negotiations with Nuance, which also has the voice recognition technology behind Siri and many other applications of IOS.

We spoke with officials from Nuance couple of weeks, and even hinted at in the negotiations with Apple's share of the Nuance speech recognition engine everywhere, they were not talking details yet.

In my opinion, Nuance has consistently improved the accuracy of voice recognition engine, and if able to facilitate accurate voice recognition along IOS interface, which significantly improve all IOS devices.

Apple Launches iCloud Beta

Apple has introduced the beta version of icloud, the company's new suite of streaming media and cloud-based services.
The new beta, available to all users with an Apple ID (update: some of our readers are having trouble accessing icloud with Leon), has Web version of Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Find My iPhone and iWork. They are accessible if you visit during use iCloud.com IOS 5 (available for developers of Apple) or Mac OS X Lion. Does not include Apple cloud services including music from iTunes.

Apple also unveiled the pricing structure icloud. The first 5GB of storage in the service are free. In addition, a 10 GB will cost $ 20, 20 GB will cost $ 40 and 50GB will cost $ 100. It is much more expensive than Amazon Cloud Drive, which offers 20 GB of space for $ 20 and allows users to store an unlimited amount of music for free.

We're playing with the beta icloud now, while we will have more to report, our initial conclusion is that beta icloud is a modified version of MobileMe. Includes similar interfaces, which is not a surprise. The addition of support iWork is a welcome addition, though, as is the simple and universal interface for all services in the cloud of Apple.

We have taken some screenshots of the beta and embedded beneath them. Take a look, and let us know what you think of the beta icloud in the comments.

Apple Now World’s Top Smartphone Vendor, Has More Cash than U.S. Government

You should feel good about being part of today's Apple: The company was proclaimed in the smartphone world leading seller of Strategy Analytics, and its cash reserves are now larger than the U.S. government's balance sheet. Apple is now the largest global provider of smartphones in volume with 18 percent market share, according to the report by Strategy Analytics. Nokia is currently third with 15%, behind Samsung, which grew an astonishing 520% ​​year to take a 17% share of global smartphone market.

Also, with a balance of $ 75.9 billion, Apple is obviously doing very well in the "fit" of the department, but it sounds even better when you hear the U.S. Treasury Department say the government now has a total operating income of $ 73.8 billion.

Also, with a balance of $ 75.9 billion, Apple is obviously doing very well in the "fit" of the department, but it sounds even better when you hear the U.S. Treasury Department say the government now has a total operating income of $ 73.8 billion.

Apple Gives Back-to-School Promotion

Apple launched its Back to School promotion Thursday, offering students a gift card of $ 100 for the Mac App Store when purchasing a new Mac.
The promotion is valid from June 16 to September 20. International Apple stores are also taking part in the promotion, offering consumers gift cards in local currency (75 euros, 65 pounds, etc.).

Apple has a promotion back to the school each year, usually giving students an iPod (or in recent years, an iPod touch) after mail in rebate with the purchase of a new Mac.

University students, students accepted to college, their parents and teachers and employees in any degree to qualify for promotion. Apple also offers educational discounts ranging from $ 50 to $ 200 retail price of Mac productsThe promotion is good at Apple Stores, Apple Online Store for Education Apple authorized campus stores.

Apple now worth more than Microsoft and Intel combined

At the close of market today, Microsoft (MSFT) had a market value of 201.59 billion U.S. dollars. The market value of Intel (INTC) is $ 115 210 000 000.
Microsoft's Windows, combined with Intel forms of the suitcase "Wintel", which refers to personal computers that, when working, most charity can be described as upside down and backwards Macs with weakened immune systems.

Therefore, add these two things and you find that "Wintel" worth $ 316 800 000 000. As you can imagine, we've been seeing these values ​​in advance for some time and today, the first time (ever?), The closing price of Apple (AAPL) $ 317.60 one billion higher than Wintel. Just in time to make a nice slide for the opening address of someone WWDC (hint, hint).

For a long time Mac users, look at the title, let it wash over you, and bathe in some of the purest Schadenfreude ever invented.

What’s New in iOS 5

The latest version of IOS 5 has finally been announced, and has lots of new features - more than 200, the number of Apple.

Several new features were looted from the best in the App Store from Apple, including applications like reading queue Instapaper, group messaging applications as GroupM and photo editing applications. There are also plenty of integration with the new Apple icloud cloud service.

The beta 5 version of IOS software will not be available to users - at least those not on the agenda of developers IOS - until this fall. At that time, it will be a free download for owners of the iPhone 3G iPhone 4, IPAD 2, iPad, or the iPod nano (third and fourth generation). We highlighted the most interesting new features below.

Notification Center

IOS 5, Apple added essentially a personalized news service for all your devices. Food, which Apple calls "Notification Center" can be customized to display things like current time, a stock ticker, new emails, texts and friend requests. The feed can be accessed by hitting the top of the screen. You will be able to see while the device is in blocking mode, as well as IOS 4 shows the time and push notifications while locked.

IMessage

IMessage is BBM Apple products. A distinct feature of BlackBerry once the ability to send unlimited instant messages to other users and see if the recipients have read or are writing a response. The new feature allows group messaging, as well as photography, video, location and contact sharing. Is expected to gain a foothold in the burgeoning group starts messaging application. The advantage of these applications still have is the ability of mobile instant messaging with multiple operating systems. For now, Apple only messages can be sent to others who are using IOS, iPhones and iPads.

Newsstand

Newsstand is a folder has its magazine and newspaper subscriptions application. All purchases go directly to that folder, it displays a virtual newsstand, and new issues are automatically downloaded and delivered there. Your subscription to newspapers arrive in time for breakfast.

Reminders

Reminders iOS 5 years of application tasks list. The feature includes an option to make location-based articles. The telephone, for example, remind you to pick up milk when you're in the grocery store. Reminders can sync with iCal, Outlook and icloud so that a change in a program automatically updates the others.

Deep Twitter integration

In Ios 5, you can tweet directly from Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, or maps. Twitter will also collaborate with contacts in the operating system, making it easy to find Twitter a friend managed to start typing a name. This level of integration is still notably missing from Facebook.

Camera and Photos


IOS Apple makes the iPhone a better camera. Now you can open the camera application directly from the lock screen, making it easier to point and click fast. The application also has more of the characteristics of a common digital camera: grid lines, the focus of a single touch and locks the exposure. The volume up button now works as a shutter button.

Apple has also included photo-editing capabilities in the Photos application. This means you can crop, rotate, enhance and remove red-eye without leaving your camera roll. With icloud, you can also automatically upload new pictures to your desktop, if you prefer to edit there.

Safari


Apple's mobile web browser now includes a function that mimics the ability of popular reading application Instapaper tail. His "reading list" allows you to save items you want to read later. icloud pushes these items to all IOS devices, as well as a separate desktop and mobile applications Instapaper allows you to read the articles keep on the road.

Other features Very Noting

Free PC: You no longer need a computer to configure and activate a device IOS. With icloud, you can even back up data without tying up a PC or Mac
Calendar: The calendar view now iOS year.
Game Center: Game center now has profile pictures and recommendations friend
Wi-Fi sync, every time you connect to the IOS device to a power source that automatically backup the new media to iPhones.
Mirror Video: Stream what is in your IPAD to your Apple TV.

Apple iCloud

iCloud stores your music, photos, apps, calendars, documents, and more. And wirelessly pushes them to all your devices — automatically. It’s the easiest way to manage your content. Because now you don’t have to. Your content. On all your devices.
iCloud is so much more than a hard drive in the sky. It’s the effortless way to access just about everything on all your devices. iCloud stores your content so it’s always accessible from your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, or PC.* It gives you instant access to your music, apps, latest photos, and more. And it keeps your email, contacts, and calendars up to date across all your devices. No syncing required. No management required. In fact, no anything required. iCloud does it all for you.

Free gets you a lot.

When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. And that’s plenty of room, because of the way iCloud stores your content. Your purchased music, apps, and books, as well as your Photo Stream, don’t count against your free storage. That leaves your mail, documents, Camera Roll, account information, settings, and other app data. And since those things don’t use as much space, you’ll find that 5GB goes a long way.

The apps you use every day are ready for iCloud.
When you update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 5, your favorite Apple apps become seamlessly integrated with iCloud. Just like that. So all your content and information is available and up to date, no matter which device you’re using.