Mac News: Extend The Capabilities Of Siri With The AssistantLove Tweak For iPhone
The Siri software is undoubtedly one of the main driving forces behind the huge global success of the iPhone 4S and plays a big role in convincing people to swap towards Apple when they are about to choose a new smartphone. Plenty of other voice recognition and assistant type applications exist, but nothing offers the same deep rooted functionality that Siri can provide, coupled together with the fact that the service is offered in a native setting and seamlessly works within iOS.
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Technology News: Light-based ‘Metatronics’ chip melts minds, not copper
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have flipped the switch on a new type of computer circuit. Unlike conventional silicon, the new chip uses light — not electricity — to perform its logic.
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Programming News: SCHNITZELPRESS is a blogging engine for the Modern Web
It’s built with Ruby, a sexy little programming language that makes developers happy. Happy developers build great software, and great software makes users happy. See? Everyone is happy. It’s beautiful!
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Financial News: Apple as the new GM or IBM
Investors, analysts and business historians have been struggling in the weeks since Apple’s (AAPL) most recent earnings report to make sense of this corporate oddity: a mega-cap company ($487.1 billion) that grows like a start-up (first quarter earnings up 115.7%).
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