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Microsoft 365, standalone Office 2021 announced, will be released on October 5

In addition to Microsoft’s announcement of Microsoft 365, its standard subscription-based service, the company announced that Office 2021, the standalone version of its software, will arrive for PC and Mac on October 5. The company announced the following collaboration features for the new Office suite: With real-time co-authoring, you can work with others in the […]

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Apple releases iOS 8.3 update

It’s a day of muchos updates for OS X and iOS users. On Wednesday, Apple released version 8.3 of its iOS operating system. The new version, a 487 megabyte download, contains a massive helping of fixes and changes. Among them are more than 300 new emoji symbols, a scrolling keyboard, additional languages for Siri and […]

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1Password 5.2 for iOS released, offers new tools, features

A great app just got better. Over on the Agile Blog, developer AgileBits has announced the released of 1Password 5.2 for iOS. The new version features a new Login Creator, which creates a polished workflow for large numbers of sites and services. For Pro feature owners, a new One-Time Password tool helps you sign into […]

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Will Siri have to answer to Samsung?

According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), the voice-recognition tech company behind Apple’s Siri assistant may be in talks with Samsung to sell its technology to Apple’s most notorious competitor. Nuance has reportedly been in talks with several potential buyers as the company seeks to sell off its highly sought after voice-to-text translation software. According to some sources familiar with […]

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Microsoft throws efforts behind Skype Translator real-time translation tool, says beta will be available this year

This could be interesting. Per TechHive, before the end of 2014, Microsoft plans to release a beta Skype app that will enable real-time translation of people verbally speaking in different languages. “Skype Translator”, as Microsoft has termed it, appears to be an extension of the real-time translation Microsoft has been developing over ten years. As […]