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Google Play celebrates its first birthday with a big sale

Matthew Marchesano — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:56:09 +0000

So it’s been a full year since Google’s Play Store went live (how time does fly,) and the Web-based media store is celebrating by offering deep discounts in all departments. Free tunes, apps, gift cards and cheap movies are only a few items that the service is advertising. You definitely don’t want to miss these [...]

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Want a pair of Google Glass specs? Here’s how to get ‘em…

Matthew Marchesano — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:08:45 +0000

So we’re all hip to Google’s latest consumer mega-project, Glass, right? The company that’s synonymous with ‘looking things up on the Web’ hasn’t released much information on its Glass project lately—not since they opened pre-orders to developers and media at their 2012 I/O event. A New York City resident who describes himself as a “wearable computing [...]

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Amazon Acquires IVONA Software

Matthew Marchesano — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:22:36 +0000

This probably won’t come as too big of a surprise, but it was just announced this morning that Amazon has (finally!) acquired the 10-year-old text-to-speech software company IVONA Software for an undisclosed sum. (Not quite as exciting as the Zappos acquisition, but still … ) The company currently offers voice and language proficiency in 44 voices and in 17 languages; [...]

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