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Google Providing Voice-to-Tweet Service for Egypt

 From the article: “Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service – the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection. … [A]nyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the [...]

Facebook leaps into future as smartphones prepare to get smarter

 Good article on how technology firms are on the brink of innovations that will transform our personal and professional lives. As technology redefines and remaps our world virtually, the consumer firms driving its development are the new mapmakers. Companies like Facebook are feverishly searching the potential of interaction on the web. So far, that has [...]

Word Lens: Augmented Reality App Translates Street Signs Instantly

 Word Lens is an augmented-reality, OCR-capable translation app, but that’s a poor description. A better one would be “magic.” World Lens looks at any printed text through the iPhone’s camera, reads it, translates between Spanish and English. That’s pretty impressive already — it does it in real time — but it also matches the color, [...]