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Now I need to upgrade my phone – the Google transcription service-based speech-to-text currently works only on Android 4
Speech-to-text feature
Audio notes have been a core feature of the app since day one. Today, we’re giving you a new option: speech recognition. Tap the new speech bubble icon in the tool bar above the keyboard to launch the feature. As you talk, the app instantly places your spoken words into the body of the note as text. Magic.
When you’re done recording, we also attach the original audio to the note. By having both recording and text… Continue reading: Evernote for Android Update: Speech-to-text and Big Widget Enhancements | Evernote Blogcast
Excerpt from Paul Thurrott’s weekly news round-up
Last week, I wrote about an exciting new mobile app called OnLive Desktop, which brings a fully functioning Windows desktop (plus Office 2010 and Adobe apps) to the iPad, in my article OnLive Desktop and Desktop Plus: Windows, Office, and Adobe on the iPad. It’s a compelling solution for those who need just the occasional access to the Windows desktop. And now it’s come to Android as well. You can download OnLive Desktop for Android from the Google Marketplace now—and versions for other smartphone types, PCs, Macs, and even TVs (via a small and inexpensive set-top box) are on the way.
WinInfo Short Takes,… Continue reading: OnLive Desktop Heads to Android: WinInfo Short Takes, March 2, 2012
Thanks for the memories
It turns out that Google, maker of the Android mobile operating system, takes it one step further. Android apps do not need permission to get a user’s photos, and as long as an app has the right to go to the Internet, it can copy those photos to a remote server without any notice, according to developers and mobile security experts. It is not clear whether any apps that are available for Android devices are actually doing this.
Et Tu, Google? Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy Photos – NYTimes.com
Continue reading: Et Tu, Google? Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy Photos – NYTimes.com
Reminder: you are a node in Google’s planetary network
Mr. Schmidt said 850,000 Android phones are activated every day, and 300 million Android devices have been activated.
That figure doubled in the last six months, and “eventually it’ll be a trillion and we’ll run out of people,” he said.
The company’s scale, he said, could be instrumental in changing how the world works and how technological innovation happens.
“A new intelligent infrastructure will emerge, we would argue, powered by Android,” he said. “This is something Google is working on.”
Google’s Schmidt Predicts an Android for Everyone on the Planet – NYTimes.com
Check the full article for more momentum stats
The Android platform is now seeing more than 850,000 device activations per day, up from the 700,000 figured shared back in January, according to Andy Rubin, who oversees the OS at Google.
The figures suggest that Android may be gaining some momentum again, after Apple saw a blowout $46.3 billion quarter during Christmas in the wake of the iPhone 4S launch. Given that Android was 250 million cumulative device activations during the company’s last quarterly earnings call, this rate suggests that the platform is nearing 300 million device activations to date. Update: Actually, there are more than 300 million device activations to… Continue reading: Android crosses 850,000 activations per day with 450,000 apps in the store, Andy Rubin says
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