Apple has posted 12 new job listings over the weekend, all of which relate to Siri, suggesting that the company is getting pretty serious about boosting its speech-recognizing personal assistant's accuracy and performance, as noted by FastCompany. One of the job posts suggests that Siri is going to expand dramatically, because Apple's looking for a "Siri...
Apple CEO Tim Cook's recently released High School photos from the 1975 and 1976 yearbooks from Robertsdale High School, reveal that Apple's top executive was also a top student, as he was voted as "Most Studious" two years running, both as a freshman and as a sophomore (via Reddit). Published by a Reddit user, the photos show Tim Cook...
Conquest Vehicles, a company based just outside of Toronto, specialised in hand-building luxury SUVs for high-profile clients around the world, has built a $629,000 armoured Knight XV, that features integrated iPad controls, a Sony Playstation 3, a 12-speaker Alpine entertainment media system with 2,500 watt power, dual thermal vision cameras, a bar, marble laptop tables...
According to a new report by Droid-Life, Google's upcoming unified chat service will be called “Babel". This new cross-platform service is expected to merge services like Google Voice, Google Talk, and Google+ Messenger, and will be released for Android, iOS, Chrome, G+ and Gmail. The report also claims that the service was previously being referred to as “Babble”, but...
Using Twitter’s short-form video-sharing service Vine, that allows users to attach video clips lasting 6 seconds or less to their tweets, users can now embed their Vine posts on the web as well. Embedded posts are available in two different styles and can be created from a post's page using the embed code, or by using the latest version...
Apple's iCloud service, that lets users access their personal content on all their devices wirelessly and automatically via an Apple ID, has run into complaints from developers related to Core Data database sync issues, according to a report by Apple Insider. The source points out that several app developers have taken their complaints public via blog entries, with some...
Apple Insider is reporting that an Apple patent filing for a "Multi-layered ceramic enclosure" shows the Cupertino company's growing interest in ceramic device enclosures, a material which noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes could be used in the rumored low-cost iPhone. The filing reveals that Apple may be developing a unibody type design, fabricated from layers of ceramic in...
According to an unscientific tally of mentions on Twitter, published in a report yesterday by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, it seems that between Apple and Samsung, the former is a clear winner in the global smartphone market, Bloomberg is reporting. Investing Analytics, the group that compiled all the Twitter data, revealed that the iPhone 5 was mentioned 2.4...
A patent application from Apple published by the US Patent & Trademark Office reveals a stunning future iPhone concept, that features a wraparound display allowing both sides of this iPhone to display content, either individually or as one continuous display, reports Patently Apple. The same wraparound display concept may be applied to the much rumoured Apple iWatch....
Just Mobile's Gum Max™ battery pack with its colossal 10,400mAh charge capacity, has received a major upgrade in the shape of Gum Max Duo™, boasting not one but two USB outputs for simultaneously charging your favourite iOS devices and an increase in charge holding capacity by 800mAh. Replacing the older product, Gum Max Duo™ battery pack comes...
Here we go again as Samsung, the Korean copycat giant, introduces its own version of Apple's iTunes Store. According to Patently Apple, Samsung's version of iTunes Store is called Samsung Content & Services, which will provide one-stop contents and service that can be accessed through Samsung's Smartphone, Smart Pad and Smart TV devices. Looks like Samsung hasn't learnt anything...
Last week, we heard rumours of Amazon working on a $99 version of its 7-inch Kindle Fire HD tablet and now, DigiTimes is reporting through its industry supply chain sources that the company is going to use a 4.7" display for its smartphone, which is expected to be released later this year. The publication also...
