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Samsung Gone Cryptic, Using Anagram for Galaxy S III Marketing Campaign

April 23, 2012

Samsung Galaxy S III Marketing Anagram

Samsung turned another trick out of its marketing sleeve – showing a cryptic anagram as a promotional teaser for the launch of Galaxy S III.

SammyHub reports the official Samsung Twitter account posted a tweet “Destination: tgeltaayehxnx,” which is in fact an anagram for the Next Galaxy.

Samsung has also registered a domain name under the same name that claims to reveal something in the next 19 hours. This could be the first teaser video for the device.

Finally, a quick view of the page source asks us to “discover how Samsung is about to challenge the way you view the GALAXY once more.”

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Clever Sense, Creator of Local Recommendation App Alfred, Acquired by Google

December 15, 2011

Alfred by Clever Sense

TechCrunch reports Google is acquiring the Silicon Valley-based startup Clever Sense, the maker of the mobile application “Alfred,” which delivers personalized recommendations for nearby restaurants, coffee shops, bars and nightclubs using a combination of artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms.

Reportedly, Clever Sense was also in talks with Groupon. However, it was clever enough to go with Google.

Clever Sense started with recommendations for restaurants and other local venues (bars, clubs, etc.) and is now planning to use its technology to move into making deal recommendations next, like those from daily deal outlets such as Groupon and Living Social. It can also diversify to recommend other things, like local activities, entertainment, and more.

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Google unveils spoken word search for Desktops

June 15, 2011

Google Voice Search

Google has transformed the way we search. First, it was instant search and now, for those who have no time to type / click / touch for search, Google brings no click searching.

Google has unveiled a new feature that allows people to make Google search requests on many office and home computers without a keyboard — a feature ported to the desktop from smartphones running on Google’s Android software.

The spoken-request option will be available only on Google’s Chrome browser. It will be activated by clicking on a microphone icon inside Google’s search box. Chrome users will get the new feature within the next few days.

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ASUS Padfone is what you get when a pad mates with a phone

May 30, 2011

ASUS Padfone

ASUS has just introduced Padfone, an smartphone device that comes with a tablet it can dock into. Display switching is done dynamically, so that reading emails or browsing the web on the phone portion expands itself seamlessly once it’s connected into the pad. Also expanded will be battery life, with an extra cell included in the slate.

So, when a pad mates with a phone, you get ASUS Padfone.

From engadget

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