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According to an exclusive report by AllThingsD, the co-founder and Chief Executive of company which developed the magical Siri voice assistant for iPhone 4S, has departed from Apple. Dag Kittlaus has led the speech recognition efforts for Apple, since it bought Siri in April of 2010. He had been Siri’s CEO since 2007. According to the report, he...

Update 1: New official embed from Apple's YouTube channel. Looks like Apple has started its iPhone 4S TV commercials campaign. The first commercial debuted tonight on network television. The video was filmed by a viewer and posted online, but expect this commercial to go live soon on Apple's YouTube channel: [via MacRumors]

One can be easily frustrated with Siri if your contact list consists of hard to pronounce names. The workaround is to set phonetic first or last name fields for your contacts. This isn't new, but now that Siri is relevant on the iPhone 4S, it's probably one of the more important tweaks to maximize your...

The creators of the free 'To Do' app Remember the Milk have come up with a way to enable Siri to enter tasks into the app, as noted on the company blog. They have demonstrated how it works with the following video: Here's how to setup Siri to add tasks to Remember the Milk: Open Settings on...

Apple has just announced in a press release the iPhone 4S has sold more than 4 million units in its opening weekend. Not only that, more than 25 million people updated to iOS 5, along with 20 million signing up for iCloud. Not too shabby for a phone that was supposed to be a dud,...

Yesterday we told you how to setup Siri to send tweets for you to Twitter. Today, we will show you how to get Siri to post Facebook updates for you using the similar method. Just add your phone number to activate Facebook Texts, add Facebook's SMS number as a contact named 'Facebook', and voila. How...

All this time, I wondered if SkyNet was secretly involved with Siri and the Joy of Tech confirms it below, in their explanation of how Siri *really* works: From Terminator 2: Judgment Day (insert Arnold voice): John Connor: Can you learn stuff you haven't been programmed with so you could be... you know, more human?...

If you've tried to ask Siri to send tweets for you, it won't work. But there is a workaround--enable text messaging within your twitter account, and save your country's twitter short code to your Contacts. Once your account is confirmed, all you have to do is say "Message Twitter _____ " and you'll be sending...

Since the launch of the iPhone 4S on Friday, the one home run so far has been Siri. Still in 'beta', Siri hasn't been localized for Canadian English and French. Other shortcomings include the lack of location-based searches for restaurants and directions. You might have tried asking Siri to tell you the time and date,...

Those who have been lucky enough to get their hands on and play with Siri's intelligent responses in the last couple of days, must have noted that Apple's intelligent voice assistant built into the iPhone 4S has a bit of an attitude. Trying to find out how Apple built Siri's quirky personality, the Wall Street Journal spoke with one...

9to5Mac in collaboration with developer Steven Troughton-Smith have ported the amazing voice assistant technology a.k.a Siri from the iPhone 4S to iPhone 4. The developer successfully installed the iPhone 4S Siri and Springboard files onto an iPhone 4 allowing Siri’s interface to load up just fine on the iPhone 4, with all the features from the iPhone...

The release of the iPhone 4S has turned millions of people into instant BFFs with Siri (check out our hands on video), the new 'humble assistant'. Siri has definite character--she's sassy, helpful, and can sometimes seem down right moody. Although she is slightly held back in Canada in terms of finding restaurants and map locations,...