Why bother? With Siri on iOS, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, you already have a voice assistant any time you need one. When Amazon first introduced the Echo—its cylindrical, AI-enhanced digital assistant/speaker—reaction was mixed. Who would actually want that? A lot of people, it turns out. Amazon’s answer to Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google […]
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Apple has stated the new iOS 10 will reach users by fall this year and will come as a free upgrade for the compatible iPad and iPhone devices. The Apple WWDC event concluded successfully, and we do have a good glimpse of what to expect in the coming days with Apple products and services. Also,
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Microsoft’s Julie Larson-GreenBrad Barket/Getty Images for WIRED Since the eighties, Microsoft has always thought of Office in a certain, very rigid way. One team works on Microsoft Word, another on PowerPoint, another on Excel, and so on. But on stage at the Bloomberg Technology Conference, Microsoft Office Chief Experience Officer Julie Larson-Green revealed that she recently
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) hopes to tweak its digital assistant, Alexa, to better help it sense users’ moods by picking up on the tone of voice. After launching its first-ever Bluetooth speaker, Amazon Echo, in 2014, Amazon has been eager to secure Alexa’s position in markets because many rival companies have also launched their own versions
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ENLARGE At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote in San Francisco Monday, Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, announced that Siri would be opened to third-party developers. Photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters By Geoffrey A. Fowler Geoffrey A. Fowler The Wall Street Journal CANCEL Biography @geoffreyfowler geoffreyfowler Google+ [email protected] June 14, 2016 8:00 a.m. ET 12
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Apple has almost always been a company that has elicited strong feelings — from customers, from non-customers, from tech journalists. Until recently, those feelings were more or less positive and mostly based in adulation. Of late, with falling hardware sales and its air of invincibility pierced, those feelings are getting more complicated. All things that
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Lyft’s iPhone app is now integrated with Siri Apple has opened both Siri and iMessage to developers, taking advantage of the significant interest in voice-based services and next-generation messaging to attract marketers and breathe new life into the iPhone. With iPhone sales dropping as the smartphone market matures, Apple is enlisting the help of marketers
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Your iPad is on track for an update coming soon. iOS 10 was announced on June 13, 2016 at the beginning of their WWDC developer conference, available first as a developer preview, then to be made available to all in the new Beta program, with final release expected in the fall of 2016. ADVERTISEMENT We
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Support for HomeKit and the Internet of Things is also on the table. Developers can get their hands on a preview of the new tvOS today, while …
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Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant on Apple hand-held devices like the iPhone and iPad will soon be able to order pizza for you, or check your bank balance or call a cab for you, and help you in other ways Siri could not until now. On Monday Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)
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