News tagged ‘siri’
Thursday, 15 Dec 2011
Google Acquires Clever Sense, Plans to Deliver More Personalized Information
Search giant Google has acquired Clever Sense, a Silicon Valley-based startup that develops the mobile app "Alfred". This acquisition seems to hint of Google's intentions to counter Apple's Siri on its Android platform.
Tuesday, 6 Dec 2011
Man Hacks Siri To Voice Control His House
Marcus Schappi, an Australian software developer, has revealed how he used a few relatively inexpensive components to hack the iPhone 4S voice recognition app Siri, enabling him to use voice commands to turn his house lights on and off and open web pages on his computer.
Microsoft to Expand on Kinect's Voice Navigation Capabilities
Microsoft has made plans to roll out an update for the Xbox 360 to expand on the Kinect's voice navigation faculties.
Friday, 2 Dec 2011
iPhone 4S Users Like Siri, Dislike Short Battery Life
A survey carried out by ChangeWave Research revealed that the Apple iPhone 4S received the highest level of satisfaction ever for an iPhone model. Users also ranked Siri as their most liked feature but were unhappy about its short battery life.
Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011
Breaking Through Siri's Wall
iPhone design/development house Applidium has lay claims to cracking open Siri, prompting the possibility of the voice assistant being hacked onto other devices - including laptops and Android smartphones, according to Tech Crunch.
Friday, 4 Nov 2011
iPhone 4S Suffered From Siri Outage
Another problem sprung up for Apple. Many iPhone 4S owners reported that Siri was not functioning on their phones.
Thursday, 3 Nov 2011
Siri's Data Usage
The folks at Ars Technica ran some tests recently to find out just how much data Siri is using over the 3G network.
Monday, 31 Oct 2011
Siri Fully Functional on The iPhone 4
After two weeks of hard work, developer Steven Troughton-Smith has managed to get the Siri to function fully on an iPhone 4.
Tuesday, 25 Oct 2011
Siri Co-Founder Parts Ways with Apple
The man who was a co-founder and CEO of the company that envisaged Siri and worked to bring it to fruition, has amicably parted ways with Apple.
Monday, 17 Oct 2011
Siri Feature Ported From iPhone 4S to iPhone 4
Siri, the intelligent voice command system which Apple claimed to be exclusive to the iPhone 4S, has been ported over to the iPhone 4.
