This morning we brought you news that Google’s X labs employees are pulling some seriously long shifts to turn the Google Voice Actions feature in Android phones into a Siri rival, but is this ethos of copying Apple stifling creativity in tech? Read more
There are machinesa-plenty out there able to scan pages but the tedious part of the task, the page turning that is, still involves a human element, ScanRobot however does the lot.
Apple might not think adding copy and paste functions to the iPhone is a priority, but developers making apps for the handset certainly do. Now one industrious programmer has started an open source scheme to add the missing features.