In February 2010, three weeks after Siri debuted as an independently developed iPhone app…
Tag: personal assistant
Apple job posting seeks hire to improve Siri’s wit, zeal, and overall banter
Apple’s virtual assistant Siri may have its roots in a Pentagon-funded AI research…
Apple job posting suggests Siri coming in more languages
“The new languages on the job list include: Arabic, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and Danish…
Kontra: Is Siri really Apple’s future?
Siri is a promise of a new computing environment, enormously empowering to the ordinary user…
Can Apple exec Eddy Cue work his magic on Apple Maps?
In Apple’s never-ending negotiations with record labels, iTunes boss Eddy Cue…
Why does Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer consider Apple’s Siri the perfect search engine?
“While Yahoo! was once a major player in search – even as late as 3 years ago – they essentially outsourced their search know-how to Microsoft Bing in a deal that former CEO Carol Bartz signed with Steve Ballmer 3 years ago,” Eric Jackson writes for Forbes. “The deal hasn’t worked out for Yahoo! and […]
Apple seeks U.S. patent Siri tech and features
Apple is seeking ownership of the technology and features that drive Siri…
IBM making smartphone version of Watson
International Business Machines researchers spent four years developing Watson…
Taiwan university sues Apple in U.S. over Siri, speech recognition patents
A Taiwan university has filed a patent infringement suit against Apple Inc in a U.S. court…
Google’s data head start over Apple’s Siri
Google-411, or Google Local Voice Search is ostensibly a product…
Apple’s Siri gets below-average grade in accuracy from Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster
Apple’s Siri personal assistant gets a ‘B’ in comprehension and a ‘D’ in accuracy…
With Siri and new alliances, Apple takes on Google search
When Apple Inc sends out its coveted invitations to major events, one CEO…
GM to integrate Apple’s ‘Eyes Free’ Siri technology starting with Chevy Sonic, Spark
Last week, Apple announced a host of planned updates to the Siri personal assistant…
Apple iOS 6 to extend Siri personal assistant to iPad (2012), sources say
Apple’s breakthrough Siri Assistant, based on an incredible artificial-intelligence system…
Ex-Apple employee: Cook’s doing a good job, but Steve Jobs ‘would have lost his mind over Siri’
Steve Jobs would have ‘lost his mind over Siri,’ according to an ex-Apple employee…
Apple debuts two new iPhone 4S Siri commercials starring John Malkovich (with video)
Apple has debuted two new iPhone 4S Siri commercials starring the inimitable John Malkovich…
IBM paranoid Apple’s Siri could steal corporate secrets, bans use on company networks
Apple’s Siri voice-recognition software, a staple on the iPhone 4S, is one of the great consumer electronics advances in memory…
Samsung’s S Voice, an Apple Siri clone, leaks; Samsung blocks rival iPhone clones from using
Samsung’s S Voice, a Siri-like feature that was supposed to be…
Apple’s iPhone 4S ads starring Zooey Deschanel, Samuel L. Jackson a hit among young adults
Apple has proven that celebrities go well with Siri…
Barclays analyst: Apple will struggle to crack TV business
TV programmers don’t have any incentive to stop selling the bundles they’re already selling…
Steve Jobs wasn’t a fan of the Siri name
Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus relayed how Jobs wasn’t particularly enthralled with the name…
Apple’s mind-boggling earnings validate Siri, iPad’s corporate appeal
Google Android, Microsoft Windows Phone and RIM BlackBerry were no match for Siri…
Apple’s Siri the talk of CES 2012
Apple Inc will again dominate conversations at CES…
Study: Apple iPhone 4S users consume twice as much data as iPhone 4 users
Apple’s new iPhone 4S consumes on average twice as much data as the previous iPhone…
The three biggest tech blunders destined to happen in 2012
We’re going to see a lot more cool stuff in the tech world in 2012…
Android’s fake Siri apps: Laughable at best
When we first introduced the Siri clone Iris, I figured that would be the last…
Nuance buys Vlingo virtual assistant, takes out would-be Siri rival
Nuance Communications, Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Vlingo, Inc…
Is Apple prepping Siri for Mac?
Apple’s breakthrough voice recognition user interface for the iPhone 4S is already…
‘Siri backlash’ threatens Apple’s future magic or something
Since the iPhone 4S’s launch in early October, I’ve run into an increasing number of Siri users…
Apple’s Siri’s amazing voice-controlled artificial intelligence marks an inflection point in computing
After a month of using Siri, the new voice-controlled ‘personal assistant’ available on the iPhone 4S…
Apple’s iOS on the road: Using Siri in the car
So, how is Siri stacking up, you ask? So far, I absolutely love it. LOVE IT!
Google’s Eric Schmidt tells U.S. Senators Apple’s Siri is significant competitive threat
Schmidt called Apple’s Siri, currently in beta for iPhone 4S owners, a “significant development” and described it as a “competitive threat”…
Apple’s Siri is eating Google’s lunch
The evidence is mounting that users of Siri are consistently bypassing Google
Apple’s rather amazing Siri sells iPhone 4S
Siri is creating a consumer bias towards Apple’s new iPhone 4S…
Siri: Apple’s secret weapon in war with Google
Apple’s legendary co-founder Steve Jobs has a posthumous hit on his hands…
Apple’s Siri makes Google and Microsoft look foolish; begins to cast shadow over the industry
Apple has just introduced voice as a major user interface and that its use of voice coupled…
Android chief not interested in turning Android devices into personal assistants
Andy Rubin thinks there is a lot of potential for phones to be more useful companions…
