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The voice behind the UK English version of Siri has been revealed as Jon Briggs, a former tech journalist. Briggs formerly recorded voiceovers as 'Daniel' for the company Scansoft, that was later swallowed up by Nuance, the company whose technology Apple utilized in Siri. The notoriously secretive Apple has, it should be said, asked Briggs...

A welcome addition to my sports app folder; The Canadian Curling Association (CCA) has released a full featured sports app. The app provides access to news headlines, real-time championship event scoring, photos, and videos. And of interested for the travelling curler, the app offers a great new way to locate curling clubs across the country. The...

Update 1: Do not update to iOS 5.0.1 if you are holding off for an untethered jailbreak. Apple has just released iOS 5.0.1 software update in order to address several bugs that Apple says are to blame for the poor battery life some users have been experiencing on iOS 5.0. As expected, the iOS 5.0.1...

Ceridian Canada Ltd., the leading human capital management solutions provider has just released an update to its official Powerpay Mobile iOS app. In addition to approval and and review of payroll data, the latest version 2.0.0 now provides full payroll functionality on-the-go to all existing web customers of Ceridian's flexible Powerpay payroll solution. The app can be downloaded on any iPhone,...

Apple has updated its Canadian online store to include a link to their Holiday Gift Guide that features major products such as the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPod touch, and MacBook Air. A dozen accessories showcased include items such as the $600 Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air, $80 Silverlit Interactive Bluetooth Remote Control Enzo Ferrari...

Steve Jobs could be the first deceased CEO to win the honour of Time Magazine's Person of the Year, as noted by Fortune. Earlier this morning, three of the six people in a panel discussion supported the nomination of Steve Jobs, as first put forward by NBC's Brian Williams. He was supported by Grover Norquist...

Fortune notes that in Greenpeace's latest Guide to Green Electronics Apple ranked forth among its consumer electronics peers by environmental criteria. HP, Dell, and Nokia lead the way respectfully. What's significant is that Apple has moved up five spots in last years report. The Greenpeace report reviews three categories: energy, greener products, and sustainable operations. It praises Apple for...

A report published by DigiTimes indicates that Apple has instructed its major iPhone / iPad parts suppliers such as Foxconn to delay a portion of their shipments for the final quarter of 2011 to the first quarter of 2012. It is claimed that Apple has taken this decision in light of lower-than-expected pre-sales of iPhone 4S. All iPhone...

Adobe has announced they will shut down Flash support for mobile devices and concentrate on Adobe AIR and HTML5: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash...

Earlier today the Apple Store app was updated to include support for Canada, and to also debut the new self-checkout feature called EasyPay (U.S. only at the moment). Curious to know how this self-managed system works for accessory purchases? The Mac Observer went hands on today with the feature to purchase a $200 accessory. Users...

With all the breakthroughs lately in ports of Siri over to the iPhone 4, iPod touch, and iPhone 3GS, some have wondered whether the voice feature will make it onto older devices. Apple has confirmed Siri will not be supported on older devices, in response to a developer's bug report submitted to Apple. The developer...

Google’s Eric Schmidt is in Korea this week meeting with senior government and business officials, including South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. During a press conference this morning he was asked, among other things, on his thoughts of Steve Jobs’ claims that Android is a “stolen product”. While first calling Jobs a “fantastic human being” and saying he is...