Siri does not represent a foray into the realm of artificial intelligence, but rather a necessary stutter-step in that direction which can be more accurately referred to as Augmented Intelligence. Despite an ability to engage in limited natural language processing, Siri is only capable of augmenting the capabilities of an iPhone in ways that were [...]
Carrying my iPad like a book has an unexplainable appeal to me. Since the first generation iPad, I’ve looked for products that allow me to carry the device in the same manner as the ruled hard-bound journals that accompanied me everywhere up until a few years ago. After testing a few solutions, I had settled [...]
iOS 5 is a huge improvement and introduces some critical features that keep the iPhone competitive with the innovation emerging from the Android platform. That said, there are still some frustrating shortcomings. Here is my take on what needs to be improved upon. Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Apple released iOS 5 to the masses on October 12th with an intriguing set of new features for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. Purchasers of Apple’s new iPhone 4S got access to an extra feature called Siri, a speech-recognition “personal assistant” that’s built into all Apple iPhone 4S smartphones. You can speak to Siri and [...]
This guy is a national treasure… “Wozniak acknowledged that he could have easily made one phone call to Apple and gotten the phone he’s waiting in line for, but he didn’t. He has yet to play with an iPhone 4S or its Siri voice-controlled assistant. He has said previously that he does not ask colleagues [...]
Apple’s cloud strategy has clearly shifted to focusing on the lowest common denominator from a cloud services perspective. With the introduction of iCloud, users lose a tremendous amount of flexibility in how and what critical files are stored in the cloud. Two areas that will impact MobileMe users the most are the loss of iDisk [...]
Today’s tech news will be dominated by the iPad 2.0 announcement. Here are some reasonable items from our wishlist for the device. Front facing camera – could care less about a rear facing camera, but one on the front will be essential to take facetime to the next level. Ability to stream content from an [...]
The exclusively Mac accessory company TwelveSouth has released a hardback leather case cover for MacBook Pro computers that looks like a well aged leather-bound book. I had the opportunity to travel with one of these cases for my MacBook Pro 13″ this past week and it performs a very simple function very well with a [...]
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