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Apple has posted an iOS 6 Feature Availability page that denotes a list of countries where specific features are available in Maps, Siri, iTunes Store, Dictation and App Store: Some iOS 6 features are not currently available in every country. Choose a feature below to see if it’s supported in your country. Out of the...

I've seen multiple iPhone 5 concepts that I've wished were real, and here is another one. Aatma Studio had previewed a iPhone 5 concept at the end of August that racked up 60 million Youtube hits. Now the same design company is back with their sequel, previewing some more mind blowing features. The video that we are about to...

Google has announced today the launch of their Knowledge Graph in Canada and around the world. The Knowledge Graph is described as "more than 500 million real-world people, places and things with 3.5 billion attributes and connections among them". On top of this announcement, Google also noted an upcoming update of the Google Search iOS...

While Apple is battling with Samsung in one of the biggest-ever technology patent trials, a Taiwanese university National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has sued Apple for infringing upon two of its voice recognition patents, Reuters reports. The suit was filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas which alleges that the technology found in...

Siri has been caught red faced after mistaking poison ivy for poisonous oak in their latest paper advertisement on the back of the The Economist. The advertisement clearly asks Siri, "What does poison oak look like?"--the response pulls up a photo of poison ivy instead, courtesy of Wolfram Alpha. If this is myself making the...

Iconic film director Martin Scorsese stars in the latest iPhone 4S commercial using Siri in a cab in New York City. Throughout the duration of the commercial he is talking quite quickly with Siri and ends up using Find my Friends too. He joins the list of other celebrities such as Samuel L. Jackson, Zooey...

With the introduction of the iPhone 4S, came the introduction of Siri, the voice activated assistant. Apple featured Siri in numerous commercials for the iPhone 4S, touting it as the main selling feature. Since then, Samsung has introduced their own voice activated assisted called S-Voice, and there was much speculation as to if RIM would...

For Honda Accord fanatics looking forward to the debut of the 2013 model, there's one more added bonus for iPhone owners. Honda Canada recently annouced HondaLink, a new in-vehicle connectivity system that will debut in the latest 2013 model of the Honda Accord in Canada. The automotive OEM app Aha by Harman will allow drivers to...

With the announcement of iOS 6 at WWDC 2012, one of the most anticipated features was the addition of the new Apple Maps and turn by turn GPS, guided by Siri. However, with the first betas of iOS 6, this feature did not work in Canada. A couple days ago Apple enabled the feature in...

Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray has published the results of an unscientific test to put Siri against Google text searches. iPhone 4S and new iPad users know Siri is able to return Google search results via voice--but how accurate are they compared to actual text searches? Here are the results from asking Siri 1600 questions...

Apple announced at WWDC 2012 Siri would be getting a huge list of updates, along with tuned support for Canadian English and French to go with local search support, something we didn't get with the debut of the iPhone 4S. Here's a brief video below of Siri on iOS 6 with full support for restaurants,...

Scott Forstall mentioned on stage at WWDC 2012 that numerous automobile manufacturers have agreed to implement a new wireless feature called Eyes Free. This allows for drivers to speak to Siri and perform other actions, built into the setup of the car. Fast Company spoke with numerous car makers noted within Forstall's presentation, such as BMW,...