Microsoft pulls "fly on the wall" anti-iPhone ads

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Another insight from the same company whose then CEO said of the newly introduced iPhone in 2007:

"There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57602902-75/microsoft-pulls-fly-on-the-wall-anti-iphone-ads/

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/09/13/microsoft-laughs-at-apples-new-iphones-in-fly-on-the-wall-in-c/ / Microsoft removed series online video advertisements critical Apple's latest iPhones iPhone smartphone smart phone videos title A fly on the wall in Cupertino? depicted fictional meetings Apple Apple's headquarters Cupertino California posted Microsoft's Windows Phone YouTube account two minutes unlikely to be shown on TV advertisements ill received ill-received mock mocked numerous social networks observers also suggested that similarities between fictional executive late Apple CEO Steve Jobs poor taste campaign intended lighthearted poke friends from Cupertino off the mark decided to pull it down Microsoft representative mirrored version of the main video /

Google Translate — future enhancements aim to end language barrier

Google has begun a project with the objective of nothing less than a real time voice enabled translator. I.e., an application which can act as interpreter for a conversation between two people who have no language in common.

http://bgr.com/2013/09/13/google-translate-future-enhancements/#more-1219387 / Google’s Google moonshot moonshots project projects company pursues far fetched far-fetched defining features. Spiegel Translate team ambitions eliminate language barriers develop development voice enabled voice-enabled universal translation system started working translator smartphone app translate different languages language Franz Josef Och Translate department fairly slow and clunky improvements text based text-based Translation similar leaps and bound biggest barriers subtle nuances language syntax ambiguity employ linguist team Translate app is designed get better with experience Google’s specialty collecting sorting analyse analyze analyzing data algorithms designed understand grammatical rules Spiegel search through the clutter gather data and learn along the way syntactical detective work to really sound like proper English perfect perfecting the service /