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iPhone Live 183: Siri silliness vs. Carrier IQ

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Dec 8, 2011 a 3:56 pm

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Rene, Georgia and Michael Rose of TUAW discuss a media gone mad -- including ridiculous Siri allegations, crazy Carrier IQ coverage -- and how to protect our privacy, and the privacy of our families, in the digital age. This is Phone Live!

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Siri used to control home television set

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 4:20 pm

With rumors ramping up of a Siri-controlled Apple television coming from Apple, Todd Treece was able to beat them to the punch and get Siri to fully control his television set using an Arduino IR remote setup and SiriProxy.

We've seen Siri do amazing things like start your car and control your home thermostat using SiriProxy as well, but this setup actually shows the power of having Siri used as a remote control for your TV.

Why is Siri in beta?

By Jared DiPane, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 1:55 pm

Why was Siri, the iPhone 4S intelligent assistant, launched as a beta, something very unusual for Apple? Benoit Maison published a blog post which might just explain the reason.

Apple hiring more Siri engineers, working to expand API and features

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 9:58 am

Apple has posted a couple of job postings for iOS software engineers, and they describe work needed on UI elements for Siri, along with additional language support and a new API that could indicate Apple may be opening up the feature to 3rd party app developers.

This is a broad-ranging task - we take every application that Siri interacts with, distill it down to fundamentals, and implement that application's UI in a theme fitting with Siri. Consider it an entire miniature OS within the OS, and you get a good idea of the scope!

Siri ported to iPhone 4 via questionable jailbreak mod

By Andrew Wray, Monday, Dec 5, 2011 a 1:16 pm

A new jailbreak mod by the name of H1Siri claims to allow a fully working port of Siri on the iPhone 4, but this one comes with a number of questionable aspects.

iPhone Live 182: 2011 iPhone gift guide

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Dec 2, 2011 a 12:13 am

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Rene, Georgia, and Seth talk iOS 5.1, Siri hacking, iPhone 5 rumors, Infinity Blade II and iTether, and pick our favorite accessories and apps for 2011, gift guide style! This is iPhone Live!

Rene's picks

Georgia's picks

Seth's picks

Stephen Colbert interviews Siri, hilarity ensues

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 a 11:50 pm

"It's got all the convenience of talking to a woman without paying that annoying $2.99/minute."

Nice.

Source: Colbert Nation

iPhone 4S tops the iPhone 4 with 96% satisfaction rate

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 a 4:55 pm

ChangeWave has come out with a new survey polling customer satisfaction among new iPhone 4S owners, showing an overwhelming 96% satisfaction rating and propelling the iPhone 4S into "nosebleed territory".

Overall satisfaction with the iPhone 4S showed 77% of users being Very Satisfied and 19% being Somewhat Satisfied, compared to 72% and 21% respectively for the iPhone 4 that launched in 2010.

Robin Williams gives Siri some French attitude on Ellen

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 a 2:39 pm

Comedian and iPhone user Robin Williams decided to give [Siri some snooty Parisian attitude on the Ellen show this week. Give it a watch and then let us know if Apple should be calling on Williams to provide some voice talent for Siri 2.0...

Siri "pro-life bias" debunked

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011 a 11:11 pm

TUAW's Chris Rawson did the inconceivable -- actually looking into claims that Apple's virtual assistant, Siri might have been programmed with a "pro-life bias" before posting them. And surprise, surprise, he found them to not even be worth the link-bait pixels they were posted with.