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Hey, Siri, How Is Apple Going to Keep Up With Google and Amazon?

Asking Apple Inc.’s voice-activated assistant, Siri, what the company plans to unveil at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco next week elicits the response: “If I told you, they’d probably make me sit through product security again.” Witty, perhaps, but Siri will have to supply more satisfying answers if it’s going to convince customers, …

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Alexa’s Red Hot Week And Blue Coat’s … Well, You Decide

The first week of June began with probably the biggest sizzle-y story of all: the unveiling of the 12 new skills that 14 companies across payments taught Alexa. Companies as large as Visa, Discover, FIS, Fiserv, Vantiv and Western Union, and diverse and scrappy as DaVincian Healthcare, EXA, OnVocal/People Power, BIG, and Zipscene/Feasty got their …

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Will Apple’s Siri upgrade beat Amazon’s Alexa Echo and Google’s Now?

The Apple’s voice assistant Siri is expected to expand beyond the iPhone and iPad to third-party apps and Macs. Regarding Apple’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which begins Monday in San Francisco, analysts expect an expanded role for Siri that would improve IQ of Apple’s personal digital assistant. Even though Siri was one of the first digital …

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Apple courts developers at WWDC

Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Image 1of/1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JUNE 08: Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi (L), shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook during the Apple WWDC on June 8, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Apple annouced a new OS X, El …

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Private sector sparks inspiration for federal government to innovate: Bishop

Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop has admitted the federal government can learn a lot from the private sector in how it can do things more efficiently, effectively, and productively with tax payers’ dollars. Speaking at the Vivid Ideas panel, Drones for Good, Bishop said that much like how the private sectors have begun working …

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Siri Helps Mom Save A Baby’s Life

A mother from Australia thanked Apple’s Siri on her iPhone for saving her baby’s life. Using the voice activation services, she managed to reach the emergency services while focused on reviving her baby. An Australian mother of a one-year-old baby girl personal thanked Cupertino-based tech giant Apple in a letter after iPhone’s voice-activated assistant app …

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Siri will get a big makeover at Apple’s WWDC show

The Apple logo can be seen on the Moscone Center West conference center in San Francisco, USA, 07 June 2015. Image: Christoph Dernbach/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Christina Warren2016-06-09 14:30:38 UTC We’re just a few days away from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, better known as WWDC. Each year, Apple packs developers (and the press) into a crowded …

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WWDC 2016: What to expect from Apple’s developer conference

Image: ZDNet Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, where thousands of developers will gain insight into Apple technology. During the keynote address, Apple is expected to largely focus on new software developments, with announcements potentially regarding all four operating systems: iOS, OS X, watchOS …

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