Mr. Sneeden mentioned the TV SideView app, an electronic programming guide with voice activation that's available from the Play Store and takes advantage of the Tablet Z's built-in IR blaster -- he also pointed out that Sony's Music Unlimited and Walkman Player apps will be fully integrated by summer.

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On our return trip, our guiding voice had a few hiccups, but we attribute that to a programming error that was soon rectified by a technician on hand.

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According to TechCrunch, buying TokBox added new services that Telefonica could offer developers through its BlueVia Application Programming Interface (API) platform: these already included voice, messaging and billing APIs when the TokBox deal closed.

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With no media experience, Salinas and two partners bought a moneylosing network from the government in 1993 and turned it into a vibrant new voice that attracts 24% of the prime-time audience, thanks to lively programming and newscasts with many political views.

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Similar to the free program Roger Wilco, the new voice chat will be included in a new version of DirectX, Microsoft's applications programming interface for 3D games.

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