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Rumor: Apple testing new function that could allow Siri to transcribe your voicemails

This could be nifty. Apple is reportedly conducting internal testing to see if it can allow Siri to transcribe your voicemail messages into text, so that you can read them rather than having to listen to them. The feature, if successful, will allow Siri to take your iCloud Voicemail messages as opposed to having them […]

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Microsoft announces Cortana for iOS, Android devices, cites release date for later this year

If you were thinking of dropping Siri for another personal assistant, Microsoft has something on the way. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Cortana personal digital assistant will be available for iOS and Android devices later this year. Windows 10 will also feature a new “Phone Companion” app as a central place for PC users […]

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Microsoft begins overhauling Skype, launches selected users to Skype for Web beta

A while back, it was reported that Microsoft has been significantly overhauling Skype. As of Friday, the company announced that it is starting to roll Skype out onto the Web. Per 9to5Mac, Skype for Web will allow users to chat, video call, and manage contacts from a web browser without having to download the Skype […]

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BBEdit 11.0 released, adds new features, easy import for TextWrangler users

You love BBEdit. And it just hit version 11. Bare Bones Software today announced the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 11.0, a major upgrade to its professional strength HTML and text editor. BBEdit 11 builds on an extensively modernized foundation with newly overhauled systems for Find Differences, Clippings, and syntax coloring; and it adds […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.8.5 Supplemental Update 1.0 for late-2013 iMacs

Better this came out now than wait a while… On Friday, Apple released its OS X Supplemental Update 1.0 for its late-2013 iMac lineup. The firmware update, a 17.9 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Fixes an issue that may cause external drives to be ejected after the computer goes to sleep. […]