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Great deals on Dragon speech recognition software for PC and Mac

Sep18
by on September 18, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Offers

Boost your productivity and get things done quickly with these can’t-miss offers on speech recognition software from Dragon, available for PC and Mac, at TNW Deals. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 Home: Control your PC and dictate text with just your voice Make light work of your typing tasks with Dragon 13 Home. Easy to set up and compatible with just about any app, the world’s number one speech recognition software lets you launch apps, search the Web, chat, post to social networks and dictate documents quickly and accurately. Go hands-free for only $79.99. ➤ For more details on this offer, visit…

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Apple is working on a new digital music format, U2’s Bono says

Sep18
by on September 18, 2014 at 1:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Apple is working with U2 to develop a new music format that is designed to tackle piracy by making digital downloads of albums and songs a more attractive proposition, according to TIME magazine. U2 frontman Bono told TIME that he was optimistic the new digital music format will prove so ‘irresistibly exciting’ that it will lure them away from the all-too-easy illegal downloading that the music industry often bemoans. According to the report, the move is a bid to help musicians who don’t tour to make money out of the industry by helping them to better monetize their recorded music. Naturally,…

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FlightAware now lets you track exactly where your Apple iPhone 6 pre-order is

Sep18
by on September 18, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

Knowing full well that the world would wake up today keen to know exactly where their pre-ordered iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices are at this exact moment, FlightAware has launched a tool that will tell you – provided your device is still in the air. Due for general release tomorrow, nervous buyers wanting to make sure their device is en-route to their hands simply need to tap in the UPS tracking number to figure out which plane is carrying their device as the ‘departure scan’ figure in the UPS tracking number should match the departure time for a flight listed on the…

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Virtually everything: How the physical world is being consumed by software services

Sep18
by on September 18, 2014 at 12:20 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider

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Marc Andreesen famously said in 2011 that “software is eating the world”. I believe that’s only the case because of underlying changes to the hardware that’s facilitated it. The creation of that world-eating software, the coding jobs that it creates and the wealth it generates would all be imaginary if the means to execute the software didn’t exist. Recently I’ve spent some time looking at the trends in technology and computing and what they might mean to a business. I’ve observed that one thread has become apparent across a number of applications and services. That thread seems constant, frequent and…

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Formisimo, the ‘Google Analytics for Web forms’, goes real-time

Sep18
by on September 18, 2014 at 11:31 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates, UK

Formisimo, the startup focused on telling you how effective the forms on your website are, has rolled out a new real-time feature in beta. The real-time data on offer tells you the number of users currently using your checkout or form, the number of recent checkout drop-outs, conversions in the last five minutes and which fields are currently seeing activity. It’s easy to imagine the feature being popular with e-commerce sites and marketers who want to see how immediately effective a new mailshot is. As with Formisimo’s standard data, the idea is to help you understand where users are having problems…

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