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Apple iPhone 4 Users Get Siri Through Spire Hack
Owners of Apple s iPhone 4 who have a hankering to use the company s much-publicized voice-recognition personal assistant Siri can now do so thanks to a download designed by a hacker known as chpwn, who posted the details of the program on his blog. The tool, Spire, will download Siri itself (directly from Apple)…
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Windows Phone Marketplace Reaches 50,000 Apps
According to All About Windows Phone (AAWP), the Windows Phone Marketplace now has more than 50,000 apps. Although 50,000 is less than one-tenth of what Apple s iOS App Store has and also a fraction of the more than 400,000 apps in Android Market, Microsoft s ascent to 50,000 apps is a solid milestone given…
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Consumer Electronics Industry Faces a Projected $17 Billion Product Returns Bill: Accenture
Customers returning electronics products will cost U.S. consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers nearly $17 billion this year, including receiving, assessing, repairing, reboxing, restocking and reselling returned products. This represents an increase of 21 percent since 2007, according to a research report from management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture (NYSE: ACN). The research is…
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Google Could Launch a Tablet in Six Months, Exec Says
As the tablet market continues to expand, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt let slip to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera that the company was planning to directly manufacture tablet devices of the highest quality and mentioned a six-month window for production. Google’s Android operating system is already running the tablets of major manufacturers…
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LG Posts Details of Android Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade
Mobile phone manufacturer LG will be offering the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS upgrade for a range of LG smart-phones which were introduced this year, with the global upgrade schedule begining in the second and third quarters of 2012, which will be followed by a global roll out, according to a post on the company’s…
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Apple’s iPad 3: What to Expect
What features could end up in Apple s iPad 3? That Apple intends to introduce a successor to its bestselling tablet is a dead certainty. The bigger questions are when the device will hit the market, and what new hardware and software the company will pack into its slim frame. If Apple follows the same…