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Apple announced the biggest update to Siri yesterday at WWDC 2012, with new sports, restaurants and movie capabilities. During the keynote, Scott Forstall was on stage to announce the latest features. Most of them appeared shortly on a slide. We took at look at that slide and listed the details of what to expect for...

At WWDC 2012 today, as part of its iOS 6 announcement, Apple has confirmed Canadians will finally get language support for Siri. We will now get local search in Canada, as noted on stage by Scott Forstall! ...and now…in iOS 6 we're adding English and French tuned for Canada…**crowd laughter**...EH? When the new voice feature...

Last month Apple debuted new Siri commercials featuring the Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson. It was just the beginning of celebrity appearances involving Siri, with a later commercial starring John Malkovich. Although Siri looks spectacular on TV, Conan O'Brien and Team COCO show us the 'sick and evil' personality of Zooey's Siri. Here's how...

The Verge has posted a comparison video that puts Apple's Siri versus Samsung's S Voice. The latter was introduced by Samsung when they debuted their latest flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S III. Early on many noted S Voice 'resembled' a clone of Siri on the iPhone 4S. Cosmetics put aside--how do both of these...

It sounds a bit surprising but its true that IBM, the American multinational technology giant, has banned Siri on its local networks (via Wired). While employees can still bring their iPhones to work, Apple's digital voice assistant isn't welcome on the company's network. Jeanette Horan, the IBM CIO, has told Technology Review that her company has banned Siri because...

In response to lawsuits filed last month against Siri, alleging that the intelligent personal assistant software introduced in iPhone 4S doesn’t perform as advertised, Apple has today filed a motion to dismiss the cases, reports Wall Street Journal. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, defending Apple against these claims, said in a recent court filing that Siri is currently...

Image via SlashGear Earlier today, Samsung announced their next flagship phone, the Galaxy S III. This new smartphone runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and sports a massive 4.8 inch HD screen. Once particular feature introduced was Samsung's new voice navigation feature, appropriately called S Voice (that uses Vlingo as one of their voice recognition...

With iPhone 5 coming out later this year, we have heard lots of rumours about what the new features or design might be. This time around we are showing you a simple concept video from Aatma. They have previously shown as what they think the new iPad could have looked like, and also what they...

As noted by modmyi, a cool new jailbreak tweak has just hit the Cydia store called JpgToSiri which allows users to look up pictures on the web using Siri on their iOS devices. Developed by Vladislav Korotnev, the tweak gives Siri the capability of fetching images from the internet by using the command “Show me a picture of [insert...

As noted by TNW, Apple has pushed out a couple of new TV ads highlighting Siri for iPhone 4S on its three major U.S carrier partners Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. Most interesting thing about the new ads is that they feature Hollywood stars Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. The ads were aired during ESPN's SportsCenter this afternoon with several spots...

A class action lawsuit has been filed in Regina against Apple Canada and the controversy over Siri's limited capabilities on the iPhone 4S. Filed by The Merchant Law Group, the lone plaintiff so far, Catlin Hendriks, believes Siri isn't performing as advertised: "Siri either did not understand what the plaintiff was asking or, after a...

The co-founder of Siri, Dag Kittlaus, was a keynote speaker at a monthly start-up pitch event in Chicago yesterday. It was there he revealed information on how Steve Jobs went about his quest in acquiring Siri shortly after its launch. What's interesting to note is Steve Jobs did not like the name 'Siri'--but Apple stuck...