Posted on November 24th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
We won’t forget the time Joy racked up a $264 hotel phone bill for three hours of casual conversation with a girl friend. She’d run out of minutes on her smart phone, so she decided to switch to the hotel phone. A new phone plan from Virgin Mobile would have skipped that.
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Posted on November 24th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
“Mirage” is a new app for sending photos, videos, texts or voice messages that vanish after a set time period.
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Posted on November 24th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
“SpeakaZoo” (iPhone/iPad only) lets children talk to cartoon animals, and they talk back. The free app has built-in speech recognition that works pretty well. It understood questions like “What’s your name?” and simple answers like yes or no. When we said “I like you,” the elephant said “I like you too Zookeeper.” Most of the animals are wistful. We hope the next version has happier creatures. Could be the zoo environment.
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