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Motorola Assist gets new ‘Talk to Me’ feature, can read your texts aloud and announce your calls

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by on June 4, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Mobile

Motorola today updated its Motorola Assist app with even more hands-free features: it can now read your texts aloud and announce your calls. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play. The full changelog is as follows: When you’re at home, Assist can now announce callers and incoming text messages. Improved driving detection using audio. Bug fixes! The new home mode is called “Talk to Me” and needs to be turned on first. We can see the app one day being able to turn the mode on automatically (if you want it to) based on your location….

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Lingua.ly, which helps you learn new languages by browsing the Web, is now available as a Web app

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by on June 4, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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Language learning platform Lingua.ly has launched a Web app that helps individuals learn a language on all browsers. Previously, Lingua.ly on the desktop took the form of a Chrome extension, but you can now choose between downloading the extension or just working within the app on a browser. However, the Web app will gradually be replacing the Chrome extension for existing users to become the only option for desktop users going forward, a spokesperson tells us. Recently the company also launched an Android app that saw more than 100,000 downloads in the first month. An iOS app is coming by fall this…

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Worried your employees are on social media all day? Turn it into a job perk

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by on June 4, 2014 at 5:50 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's, Social Media

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Shawndra Russell is a writer and social media educator for businesses, professionals and college students with the intent of stopping outdated me! me! me! marketing. This post originally appeared on the 15five blog. We exist in two different worlds, the virtual and the real. Some of us spend more time on our social networks than in the physical realm. Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and others have changed the way we live and work forever. Just ask your IT department how much time employees spend liking and tweeting the day away. But worry not business leaders, because there is a way that…

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Facebook rolls out one-column Timeline design to all Pages

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by on June 4, 2014 at 5:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

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Facebook today announced it has started rolling out the streamlined desktop look for Pages to everyone worldwide. All Pages should have access to the new design by the end of the week. Admins accessing their Pages today will see a tour of the refreshed design, and after completing it, they can switch to the new design right away. Every Page will automatically switch to the updated design two weeks after the tour has been viewed. Facebook began pushing the new design in March, with the biggest change being that all posts are now in one column, just like on user…

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Microsoft overhauls Bing’s music video discovery with a dynamic carousel

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by on June 4, 2014 at 4:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

Microsoft today overhauled Bing’s music video discovery system with a dynamic carousel. Searching for an artist will show you their top songs, and you can also browse by album, all without leaving the page. Clicking on a song showcases a high-quality video in the upper left of the results: This update has been in development for “the past several months,” and the company says it was driven by the fact that searching for music videos is fundamentally different than searching for other types of video. Microsoft’s search session data showed the company when people search for music videos “they tend…

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