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Video of Siri working perfectly for users with a variety of accents

by Steven Sande (Oct 11th, 2011)

Are you excited about Siri? If so, this video on Stuff.tv is going to knock your socks off. In the video, users ask Siri to open a website, send an IM to someone, ask it about the weather both locally and in San Francisco, set an alarm, do some currency conversions, and find the distance to the ...

Apple's Ping among Business Insider's tech flops of 2010

by Michael Gray (Dec 1st, 2010)

Business Insider lists Ping among the 15 biggest flops in tech for 2010. The reason for this listing is that Ping was launched with a great deal of publicity, but it still hasn't gained much of a foothold in the hearts and minds of its users. Business Insider cites the reminder mail about Ping, sent ...

iPad owners' usage increasing over time

by Dave Caolo (Nov 15th, 2010)

Business Insider recently surveyed 500 iPad users about their habits with some interesting results. Among the most interesting is that nearly 80 percent of respondents (77.6) said they use their iPads more often now than they did when they first got them, suggesting that, after the novelty had worn ...

WSJ says iPads gaining acceptance in corporations

by Steven Sande (Aug 24th, 2010)

The past few weeks have been fascinating for Apple watchers. The business press has been reporting that the brand, formerly a pariah in the buttoned-down world of corporate IT, is now being accepted with open arms. We had a story yesterday about the growth of Mac sales in the government and ...

BusinessInsider insists Android is the new Windows. Again.

by TJ Luoma (Jul 8th, 2010)

There's an old saying, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." For Henry Blodget of Business Insider, perhaps we should change it to "When all you have is a comparison between Windows and Mac OS from the 1980s, every situation looks like a repeat." In an article entitled ...

Gene Munster: 2010 is the "Year of the Mac," sales up significantly

by Steven Sande (Jan 19th, 2010)

When Gene Munster talks, people listen. The Piper Jaffray analyst delivered one of his missives this morning stating that his analysis of Mac retail sales in the U.S., based on numbers tracked by NPD Group, are up about 26% year-over-year for the December quarter. This is higher than the average ...