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The world was watching earlier this month as Google CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated a world first: a very realistic phone call made by a Google Assistant, booking a hair salon appointment on [...]

(Originally published on May 25, 2017) Here at Phunware, we are dedicated to making accessible and beautiful apps for an international audience, spanning all languages and locales. We also [...]

Have you ever encountered a door whose usability signals are so poor that signage is needed to clarify how the door works? A glass door with a vertically-oriented grab handle, for example: does [...]

I don’t like talking. I’m the type of person who’s perfectly happy to sit silently in a group. So I felt a bit uncomfortable when “voice” was being touted as THE [...]

Nobody defines themselves by only one thing. I’m really into design, for instance, but I’ve also always been interested in computers and what makes them tick. These somewhat divergent [...]

Returning to work after an action-packed conference is always an effort, and for the Phunware team that attended Google I/O, that felt especially true. This year, our group of ten attendees [...]

These days, businesses are bombarded with new technologies for their marketing and customer experience toolkits. As exciting as these opportunities can be, it’s easy to get fixated on the latest [...]

Alexa, order some more cold-brew coffee. Cortana, play some thrash metal. Okay Google, get me some articles on virtual agents. Hey Siri, write me a blog post. Experts agree that we’re headed for [...]

Virtual reality (VR) was a huge focus at this year’s Google I/O developer conference. It was everywhere, from sessions on how to build VR apps to discussions about the use of VR in cinema. VR [...]

How many apps do you have on your smartphone? Now, how many of them do you use on a regular basis? Daily? Once a month? Once in a blue moon? And how many have you downloaded and later deleted? [...]

We’re only a few weeks into 2015, and retail executives are still formulating their resolutions and goals for the year. Right now, organizations are bringing their departments together to [...]