Cult of Mac claims that they have spoken with an anonymous source, which says to have seen a prototype of the Apple iTV. According to the source, it looks very similar to Cinema Display that Apple is currently selling, but of course a lot bigger. The television would feature a built-in iSight camera, which can [...]
The American company Potter Voice Technologies has started suing the entire smartphone-industry. It claims that all of these companies are violating their voice control patent. The company has sued all major hard manufacturers including Apple, Microsoft, and Google. The legal case shows that Nokia, Samsung, RIM, LG Electronics, Motorola Mobility, ZTE, Huawei Technologies, Kyocera, Sharp [...]
Steve Jobs wasn’t a big fan of the name of the virtual assistant ‘Siri’, but he failed to come up with a good alternative. Kittlaus, who was one of the founders of the company Siri, said this during a presentation. According to Kittlaus, the name Siri was based on a woman, which he had worked [...]
According to a survey by Parks Associates more than 33% of all iPhone 4S owners are using Siri daily and 87% would be using the virtual assistant at least once per month. Making phone calls and sending messages with iMessage are the most popular Siri features. The survey shows that 26% of the Siri users [...]
There is only one integrated voice assistant available for the iPhone; Siri. However, there are third-party applications available that have similar features one of them is EVI, which was available in the official App Store. Apple hasn’t forgotten about the application and has plans to remove the Siri alternative from the App Store. The downside [...]
While many users are looking for a way to get Siri running on their iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or any other iPhone or iPod Touch model, we still haven’t seen a good tutorial that explains how you can get Siri running on your iPad and iPad 2. The problem occurs when users are trying to [...]
These two new jailbreak-applications will make it much easier to use Siri on older iOS devices. AssistantConnect and AssistantConnect4S make it possible to use Spire – Siri for older iOS devices – without the need to connect to a separate proxy server. The only thing that you will need is an iPhone 4S or an [...]
Numerous iPhone users that are using Siri (Spire on Cydia) on an older iPhone than the iPhone 4S are reporting that they can no longer connect with the servers of Apple. The Siri servers have a couple of new requirements when creating a connection. This could possibly be a attempt by Apple to block Siri [...]