Dropped from App Store, Siri Assistant to stop working Oct. 15

Siri may be coming to the iPhone 4S , but Siri Assistant ’s daytime as an iOS app are numbered . This message has begun appearing on the Siri Assistant app . The gratuitous search app had been available as a download from the App Store , but it disappeared shortly after Tuesday ’s iPhone 4S announcement , when Apple revealed it would build voice - drive search and dictation features flat into the new smartphone ....

October 6, 2011 · 2 min · 397 words · Crystal Wallace

iPhone 4S: What you need to know

It may not have go far in the summer as past iPhones did and it may not have had the rendering number the blogosphere was anticipating , but the iPhone 4S has made its introduction . Unveiled by Apple at a Tuesday press event , the raw phone bear more than a passing resemblance to the model that forego it . But the iPhone 4S is a decidedly novel gadget , with internal change and software lineament that determine it aside from the iPhones that have come before it ....

October 6, 2011 · 16 min · 3235 words · Jessica Contreras

Motorola faces new lawsuit

letters patent licensing companionship Intellectual Ventures has set its sights on Motorola with a new lawsuit charging the handset maker with infringe six patents . The patents cover a wide-cut range of technologies connect to text electronic messaging , moorage stations and labor software system out to devices . Intellectual Ventures , which owns 35,000 patents , said it approached Motorola in January about licensing patents , including several named in the case , accord to the lawsuit ....

October 6, 2011 · 2 min · 380 words · Donald Gonzalez

Upgrading to the iPhone 4S

It happens every time Apple produces a new iPhone : Current iPhone users and owners of other smartphones start prepare plan to ditch their older devices and upgrade to the new simulation . Unlike with moving from one version of MacBook Air to the next , though , there are complications to upgrading your iPhone — and they come in the form of multi - year commitment to wireless carriers ....

October 6, 2011 · 6 min · 1174 words · Andrew Hanson

Why Steve Jobs’s death feels so sad

On Twitter and Facebook , in my email , and through IMs , I keep hearing a exchangeable refrain : Why am I so sad ? Why am I feel such a strong reaction to the death of someone I ’ve never meet ? Many of us feel tremendous sadness in light of Steve Jobs ’s death . I ca n’t speak for my acquaintance about why they feel so affected by his pass , but I envisage their cause for tearing up mirror my own ....

October 6, 2011 · 5 min · 1000 words · Elizabeth Wilson

A look at Steve Jobs’s life and times

Steve Jobs will be remember as a reckoner seer but also as a maverick — a sometimes cantankerous one — who pursued a tenaciously independent way for Apple that could make it thwarting for partners to work with but allowed it to produce unique intersection . Jobs , the Apple co - founder who resigned from the ship’s company in the mid-1980s and return a decade later to make Apple one of the most successful applied science troupe in the humankind , died Wednesday after combat a series of wellness problems in recent class ....

October 5, 2011 · 7 min · 1489 words · Erika Jacobs

Five new things your device will be able to do in iOS 5

We ’ve heard a lot about iOS 5 ’s marquee features — thenew Reminders app , Notifications , and change to the Camera and Photos app , to name a few — both on - phase and on Apple’siOS 5 website . But as the company hint , the Io update arriving next hebdomad come packed with more than 200 other improvements and secret gems into the operating system ....

October 5, 2011 · 5 min · 937 words · John Freeman

iPhone 4S: Upgrade or wait?

Apple storm many on Tuesday when it introduce its fresh iPhone 4S — not because people were n’t have a bun in the oven a phone . They were just expecting a different one . Rumors surrounding Apple ’s iPhone result had indicate that Apple would jump directly to the iPhone 5 ( or maybe even releasetwophones ! ) . As it turned out the company follow the same path it take in 2009 when the iPhone 3 G afford way to the iPhone 3GS ....

October 5, 2011 · 7 min · 1310 words · Casey Murray

iPods: Steady as she goes

When last we suffer to talk over the fate of the iPod I suggested that the majority of the iPod line of merchandise would live on and , in describing the shuffle , summed it up with “ There just is n’t a good ground to not betray the shambling . ” If only I ’d written “ not sell the current iPod just as they are ” and halt , I would have been hailed as The Great Prognosticator ....

October 5, 2011 · 3 min · 590 words · Brooke Stewart

Reeder for Mac 1.1.2

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict These day it seems like almost every developer make a Google Reader client for browse your favorite RSS feed — or will soon . ButReeder for Mac(Mac App Store link ) is a breathing time of fresh air in this crowded market place , offering a healthy venereal infection of features polished up with an interface that shows its iOS roots . You might call Reeder for Mac the Twitter app of Google Reader apps : Like an increasing act of fresh Mac apps , Reeder take obvious user interface clue from Twitter ’s official node , Twitter for Mac ( formerly called Tweetie ) , as well as from Lion ( Mac OS X 10....

October 5, 2011 · 5 min · 992 words · Shannon Stevens

Steve Jobs: Developers, politicians, CEOs, and celebrities pay tribute

Sadly , because of his ongoing health issue , Steve Jobs ’s passing Wednesday was not entirely unexpected . Neither was the outpouring of grief from members of the Apple community . And “ the Apple residential district ” these Clarence Day is a fairly a liberal term ; Jobs was mourn publicly by Barack Obama , Larry Page and Sergey Brin , Bill Gates , and countless Apple developer , customer , and fans ....

October 5, 2011 · 14 min · 2830 words · Elizabeth Molina

The Macalope Daily: Teardrops

Sell all your Apple stock and light your Apple products on ardor , the company “ only ” announced the iPhone 4S Tuesday morning . Parents know that awful phase baby go through where they have to have everythingjust soand if you get the Jango Fett rather of the Boba Fett , well , God facilitate you . Well , some in the technical school industry plain never grew out of that form ( which , accidentally , is called “ childhood ” ) ....

October 5, 2011 · 4 min · 710 words · Tonya Wu

Apple unveils iPhone 4S

Apple ’s newiPhone 4Sdoesn’t expect all that different on the Earth’s surface from the iPhone 4 it replaces . But the late iPhone unveiled by Apple at apress eventTuesday promises an improved processor , new wireless system , and more powerful photographic camera , along with voice control capabilities . The iPhone 4S is available in black and white . The 16 GB variation is $ 199 , a 32 GB model is $ 299 , and the 64 GB variant is $ 399 — each with a two - year contract ....

October 4, 2011 · 9 min · 1751 words · Michael Keller