8Aug

Speech Recognition Interface Uncovered in iOS 5

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Speech Recognition Interface Uncovered in iOS 5

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Apple’s iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is on the way, and now that the iOS5 beta software is available to developers, clues of a partially hidden feature have been uncovered: Nuance speech recognition, rumored to be tightly integrated within iOS 5.

Although the upcoming speech-recognition features are not operational yet in the iOS 5 beta, parts of it are currently visible in the interface. As you can see in the graphic above, 9to5 Mac points out the microphone icon, placed next to the space bar on the iOS keyboard that’s used throughout the operating system. When a user touches that microphone icon, it opens the speech recognition interface that you see on the right of the graphic above.

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20Jul

Mac OS X Lion goes on sale

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Apple’s next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Lion, goes on sale, the company’s execs said during Apple’s second-quarter conference call. The latest version of the OS has “over 250 new features,” the company has said. The OS first made its debut at an event dubbed “Back to the Mac” in October, where the company also launched its second-generation MacBook Air and iLife ’11 software.

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22May

Open-Source Software Going Mainstream in Enterprises: Survey

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More businesses are becoming more confident about picking open-source software over products from vendors of proprietary licensed applications, according to a new report.

Businesses are becoming more confident about deploying open-source technology within the enterprise, instead of relegating it to the fringes or for experimental projects, according to a recent survey.

A significant majority of surveyed respondents, or 95 percent, said their organizations are using open-source technology to avoid vendor lock-in, according to the Future of Open Source Survey released May 16. In previous years, the chief reason driving open-source adoption was lowered software costs.

“Multiple factors are driving the increased adoption of open-source software, including freedom from vendor lock-in, greater flexibility and lower cost,” said Matt Aslett, senior analyst of enterprise software at The 451 Group.

While lower software costs are still important, ranking second on the list, organizations are more interested in open source to avoid vendor lock-in from traditional software vendors as well as from proprietary cloud providers. Public sector adoption and increased experience using open-source software are also listed as drivers for adoption.

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