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A pre-GM (Golden Master) build of iOS 5.1 has been leaked to a Portuguese blog which reveals that Apple is making alterations to the lock-screen camera function. The build also confirms Siri’s upcoming ability to speak Japanese.
With only a few weeks to go before Apple unveils its rumored iPad 3, most pundits ... |
17 February 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope conducted an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook as part of the firm’s Technology and Internet Conference, where Cook revealed to shareholders that Apple is heavily invested in iCloud and Siri.
Asked by Shope “How important is Siri and iCloud to Apple going forward?”,... |
15 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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iPhone owners hacking their devices to use Apple’s personal assistant app, Siri, are reporting that Cupertino is thwarting their attempts through the addition of a file that bars any communication between the Siri app and the server side.
Specifically, Apple is disabling use of Spire, a popular Siri port desig... |
15 February 2012
10:20 GMT |
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The personal assistant application on Apple’s iPhone 4S has leaked its own ability to speak Japanese, according to a few tipsters.
The screenshots above (courtesy of 9to5mac) are testimony that Siri is now able to speak Japanese, although the feature may not be fully enabled just yet.
The Siri FAQ states that... |
15 February 2012
02:32 GMT |
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A company called iSoft JSC has released an alternative to Siri, the digital assistant that does things just by asking on your iPhone 4S. Sara works on older-generation devices, starting at iPhone 2G, and allegedly does even more than Apple’s Siri.The Vietnamese group at iSoft JSC says Sara is actually an advanc... |
12 February 2012
10:02 GMT |
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One of iPhone 4S' selling points should have been Siri, the intelligent software assistant, which allows users to do certain things, like text or call someone, as well as opening an application, by simply talking to the phone.Unfortunately, the application was nowhere near completion, as many iPhone 4S complain... |
11 February 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Apple has started airing two new TV spots to promote the iPhone 4S and its unique capability of assisting you whenever you need to shop, find places of interest, make reminders, or learn random stuff.
As its name implies, Road Trip shows what Siri can do for you when you’re traveling. For example, when you don... |
10 February 2012
03:39 GMT |
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Newly-revealed details about Apple’s A5 chip inside the iPhone 4S are shedding new light on the company’s reasons not to ship Siri for iPhone 4 handsets. It appears that the reason wasn’t marketing after all. It was tech-related. Audience, a company that licensed its latest EarSmart technology to A... |
6 February 2012
04:18 GMT |
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True Knowledge, the developers of Evi, have managed to pull their act together in the past few days by expanding their server power. The Siri clone now delivers answers to all types of questions with fewer connection errors.Put in the simplest way possible, Evi is a Siri replica which answers your queries based on Nu... |
29 January 2012
15:22 GMT |
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The popular personal assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S, Siri, can now be installed on iPad 2 tablets. That is, if you’re willing to perform a few gimmicks that aren’t for the faint-hearted.
According to the iDownloadBlog, to get started you need to jailbreak your iPad 2 with Absinthe (on iOS 5.0.1), i... |
27 January 2012
08:46 GMT |
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The developers of Evi, an alternative to the Siri personal assistant on iPhone 4S devices, have issued an apologetic message to their customers promising to have their service up and running in the shortest time possible.
Evi was launched only a few days ago, but boy did it make a splash. The service is almost ident... |
25 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Yesterday we gave you the heads up on a new service that replicates Siri functionality on old-generation devices, including the iPhone 3G. Evi, as the app is called, is not up to the task, our experience has shown.
Asking the most simple questions puts Evi in an awkward position where she has to say "I'm having... |
25 January 2012
10:28 GMT |
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Siri, the exclusive iPhone 4S personal assistant app, is about to be given a run for her money. There's a new, one dollar app (0.79 Euro cents for EU customers), which the developers affectionately named Evi, that uses Nuance voice recognition and core semantic search technology to answer every question that com... |
24 January 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Security expert Stefan Esser (@i0n1c on Twitter) believes there might be something wrong with the upcoming A5 jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices. According to his tests, the jailbreak seems to be affecting Siri, the personal assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S.A tweet signed Stefan Esser yesterday said: &ldq... |
20 January 2012
08:45 GMT |
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LifeWithSiri.com, a location that provides information about how to use Apple’s powerful "personal assistant" on the iPhone 4S, has been redesigned and is now featuring updated versions of its e-books.
The site features links to all the eBook reading apps on its home page, which has been completely redesigned ... |
19 January 2012
10:36 GMT |
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A description of the Siri technology coming from the mouth of Shawn Carolan of Menlo Ventures, an investor in Siri Inc., piqued the interest of one tech journalist who claimed to have heard a similar approach being made by a company called Excite.
In his interview with Bloomberg, Carolan explains that Siri takes all... |
17 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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A person with access to the latest iOS 5.1 beta claims to have found evidence that Siri may be headed to the iPad, at least in the form of ‘Dictation’.As reported by 9to5mac, tipster Sonny Dickson was navigating the Settings menu of iOS 5.1 beta 3 on his iPad when a new section appeared in the keyboard me... |
10 January 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Apple has released a new software update for iOS developers adding fixes and improvements, including one 3G toggle, strings for a Chinese-localized Siri, and evidence of an iPad port of Siri Dictation, to name some of the key changes.
According to developer reports, iOS 5.1 Beta 3 (or build 9B5141a) was served recen... |
10 January 2012
02:46 GMT |
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Nuance Communications has announced and released Dragon TV, a natural language understanding platform for connected TVs.
Apple has been rumored for quite a while to plan the unveiling of a full-fledged HD TV set featuring the Siri voice recognition software as its remote control. It appears that Nuance, whose techno... |
9 January 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Although Siri won’t be multilingual when it hits the Chinese market next week, the digital assistant is on pace to learn Mandarin, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed. Apple this week confirmed a multi-country roll-out for its latest iPhone, one of the key territories being China, on January 13th, Friday, Next... |
5 January 2012
09:12 GMT |
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Developer Avatron Software has released a two-piece utility that allows anyone who uses an iPhone and a Mac to deploy Siri Dictation on Mac OS X. The only catch is that you really need the new iPhone 4S model which features the Siri assistant.
The benefit here is to get Siri Dictation working on your Mac: “Lik... |
28 December 2011
10:17 GMT |
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Apple’s latest television ad created with the purpose of promoting the iPhone 4S has been deemed as the most effective commercial of this holiday season by Ace Metrix, a TV ad analysis firm.Via GigaOm comes word that Ace Metrics said the TV spot exemplified a big trend this year: “Santa sells.”The a... |
27 December 2011
11:41 GMT |
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iOS hacker Chpwn, in cooperation with developer Ryan Petrich, has rolled out Spire, a legal Siri port for all A4 handsets, and even some older devices - so long as they support iOS 5. The iPad is also compatible with the hack. Read on for the details.
According to Chpwn, “Spire uses a new method to obtain the ... |
27 December 2011
02:34 GMT |
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Since Apple's iPhone 4S is bound to wind up under many of our Christmas trees and given the popularity of the virtual personal assistant Siri it comes with, now's the time to get into the festive mood. With a horror movie with these two. The video above is a mock trailer for a mock movie called “Siri:... |
23 December 2011
05:46 GMT |
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After battling it out in courts over patent infringement claims, Nuance and Vlingo came to terms this week by deciding to combine their forces for an undisclosed figure.
Nuance once tried to convince a court that Vlingo’s vision of speech recognition was too much like their own.
The jury, however, found that ... |
21 December 2011
08:21 GMT |
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In the video demonstration embedded above, Siri plays a Yamaha Disklavier wirelessly via Wi-Fi and Airplay, complete with moving keys and pedals.
Showcased by the inventor of SmartKEY for Disklavier himself, Craig Knudsen, the solution works by taking a standard MIDI song file and converting it into an audio file wh... |
20 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Apple is reportedly prototyping wearable devices that boast curved glass, have Siri installed on them and can communicate with your smartphone.After reporting on Apple’s rumored television plans back in October, the New York Times' Nick Bilton now claims to have talked to a person with knowledge of Apple&r... |
19 December 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Santa may be an old geezer, but by no means has Father Christmas lost touch with technology. This year, he’s relying on his iPhone 4S to deliver the gifts to your house. And Mrs. Claus will be sending him timely messages making sure he stays off the sugar.In the latest iPhone TV spot, Apple equips Santa Claus w... |
19 December 2011
05:04 GMT |
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iOS hackers are gearing up to deliver new hacks that will enable the jailbreak community to enjoy cool new features, including Siri on older-generation devices, and perhaps even an untethered jailbreak on the iPhone 4S.Pod2g has just tweeted that he has obtained an iPhone 4S unit and plans to hack the heck out of it ... |
16 December 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Musclenerd, the iPhone Dev Team’s most Twitter-active member, has made an interesting announcement regarding the tweaked iOS 5.0.1 update from Apple targeting iPhone 4S handsets.According to a series of tweets signed Musclenerd over the past 10 hours, the latest iOS 5.0.1 IPSW features decrypted ramdisks.Develo... |
16 December 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Google prides itself in large scale projects, the kind that require massive computing power, complex algorithms, machine learning and so on. Its visual search/image recognition search engine/app Goggles comes to mind; its translation services are also powered by quite complex technologies.
So the fact that it is App... |
14 December 2011
11:21 GMT |
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At least two job openings have been spotted at Apple for Senior iOS Software Engineer with the job descriptions mentioning Siri, the personal assistant app in the iPhone 4S.Everyone loves the service, but it’s also got some areas where it needs improving. And Apple wants to do just that.The Mac maker says it is... |
7 December 2011
05:58 GMT |
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It has been revealed that H1Siri, a Siri port by the a Chinese team of hackers, poses a few risks for the security of your personal data. The hack is also illegal because it uses Apple copyrighted code.Add into the mix that you also need to jailbreak your iPhone 4 / iPod touch 4G to install the thing, and you’v... |
6 December 2011
02:36 GMT |
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iPhone and iPod touch owners worldwide can now install the iPhone 4S-exclusive Siri interface on their devices and use the service as advertised by Apple via a few nifty jailbreak tweaks.Obviously the practice is not at all recommended, since the hack requires you to jailbreak your iPhone and download software that n... |
5 December 2011
04:45 GMT |
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An electronics expert in Sydney, Australia has managed to implement a hack in Apple’s voice-activated assistant, Siri, to perform remote tasks like switching on a lamp, or opening a web page on his computer without even touching the keyboard.Marcus Schappi, 28, said he spent just over $120 on a bunch of hardwar... |
2 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Groups like NARAL are calling upon Apple to fix Siri’s flawed search filters that tell women who seek a deliberate termination of their pregnancy to visit crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, which are generally biased and are not up front about their anti-contraception agenda, according to the pro-choice group.N... |
1 December 2011
05:35 GMT |
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All those Android users who started to feel envy when Apple announced the release of Siri for the iPhone now have their own similar service to take advantage of, Cluzee.
Coming from Tronton LLC, Cluzee is expected to prove a great personal assistant to all Android users, being pushed out as a ‘talking intell... |
30 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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South Korean news agencies are reporting that Apple’s iPhone 4S is failing to make a splash in the country (despite having sold well in other markets), citing wireless operators there as saying that sales have peaked at 300,000 units combined at SK Telecom and Korea Telecom.The Korea Times said customers are no... |
28 November 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Developer Eric Day has come up with a cool hack that puts Siri on your old-gen iDevice without breaking the law (or at least without breaking the law too much). The process does require a jailbreak and, according to Day, no key iPhone 4S files are used.The developer in question has uploaded a jailbreak package to Cyd... |
28 November 2011
04:20 GMT |
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A developer has used a Siri proxy plugin to establish a connection between his iPhone 4S and his car’s Viper alarm system to trigger commands such as vehicle ignition, lock the car, pop the trunk, enable alarm, and even start the engine.In a blog post, the developer elaborates on his ‘invention’ say... |
25 November 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Microsoft’s chief strategy and research officer Craig Mundie had a chat with Forbes' Eric Savitz to talk about the Windows maker’s plans with touch-based interfaces.During their discussion, (mark 1:45 in the clip embedded above) Mundie uttered the following remarks about Siri, Apple’s personal-... |
23 November 2011
10:59 GMT |
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A limited number (for now) of iPhone 4S users seem to be having trouble connecting to their weather service through Siri. The problem, for some, emerges when querying the local forecast.“Siri does not seem to be woriking [sic] with any weather related service. It keeps saying 'Let me check for weather in T... |
21 November 2011
11:31 GMT |
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With news about Siri being hacked to do all kinds of tricks, I thought it would be appropriate to warn that none of the advertised jailbreak & unlock solutions out there will enable you to run the assistant on your older iPhone / iPod touch / iPad, no matter how much you want to believe them.Not that they will provid... |
21 November 2011
05:51 GMT |
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A hacker named Pete and going by the name of plamoni on Twitter has picked up where Applidium left off and created a dedicated proxy server for Siri that allows you to speak out custom commands that Siri will understand and even act on.Applidium is a team of France-based developers who messed around with the code ins... |
21 November 2011
04:57 GMT |
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A German blog talking to an Apple engineer reveals that iOS 5.1 will be released shortly after iOS 5.0.2 is launched with a patch for the battery-drain flaw once and for all. The later update will teach Siri new tricks, this person said.According to the Apple engineer, iOS 5.1 is the update everyone should be ex... |
17 November 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Remember the group of developers who ported VLC Player to iOS and had their app later banned from the App Store? Well, they thought some revenge was in order (not really), so they reverse engineered Siri and made it work on a computer.They say they were able to crack open the assistant’s protocol based on which... |
15 November 2011
02:44 GMT |
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A re-opened teardown analysis reveals one of the reasons why Apple won’t have Siri on devices that are older than the iPhone 4S. As it turns out, the phone has a special little piece of hardware that the assistant requires to know when you’re addressing it.Matt over at iFixit explains that during their or... |
10 November 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Squashing the dreams of millions of iPhone owners out there, Apple has reportedly confirmed to a developer that the company has "no plans" to support Siri on old-generation hardware, after being said to have tested a special build internally.As the story goes, Michael Steeber, founder of MSComputerVideos, had a chat ... |
9 November 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Following news that Apple may be testing a ‘special’ version of Siri for old-generation devices, several sources have chimed in to confirm that staffers have indeed tested the feature with success, and now hackers have ported the assistant to iPhone 3GS.It appears that not only is the A4 CPU more than sui... |
8 November 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Apple has reportedly installed Siri on a number of iPhone 4 devices internally and is carrying out tests to decide whether or not to release the feature for devices other than the iPhone 4S.Siri, the personal assistant feature that is exclusive to the iPhone 4S, has become the hot topic of discussion this year, as mo... |
6 November 2011
07:44 GMT |
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