After a month, Siri finds her voice

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	After a month, Siri finds her voice After using Siri, Apple's new voice-controlled 'personal assistant' on the iPhone 4S, columnist Michael deAgonia thinks it's time to add voice control to the list of paradigm-shifting ways to interact with a computer -- right behind the mouse, keyboard and touch gestures. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Smarter Commerce -Cross-channel experience Social networking, increased mobility, adoption of digital channels, increased consumer expectations and transparency across industries are just a few of the factors fundamentally reshaping customer interaction. Read More! In this Issue Apple yanks iPhone tethering app from App Store Will Microsoft's 'Minority Report' UI leap-frog Apple? Sotheby's to auction off Apple's founding contract Larger 15-in. MacBook Air 'makes sense' for Apple, say analysts Apple's 'Black Friday' sale cuts Mac prices up to 10% VMware backtracks on OS X Client virtualization Jonny Evans: How Apple could answer Samsung's anti-iPhone ad Jonny Evans: Brazil goes nuts for iPhone as Apple, Foxconn get local Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone wins enterprise, is Microsoft relevant? Jonny Evans: Apple picks Sharp, dumps Samsung for iPad 3 IT Blogwatch: iPhone 5 rumors of 4-inch IGZO screen WEBCAST: IBM Optimizing Inventory Investments Gary Cross (Global Supply Chain Optimization Leader, IBM Center for Business Optimization) discusses the integration of the IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization solution with the IBM Maximo solution. Listen Now Apple yanks iPhone tethering app from App Store Apple has removed a tethering app for the iPhone that let users share the smartphone's cellular connection to the Internet with a Mac or Windows notebook. Read More Will Microsoft's 'Minority Report' UI leap-frog Apple? By this time next year, we all might be interacting with our computers by means of touch, voice and in-air gestures. Read More Sotheby's to auction off Apple's founding contract The 35-year-old contact that founded Apple will go under the gavel in two weeks, when auctioneer Sotheby's predicts it will fetch as much as $150,000. Read More Larger 15-in. MacBook Air 'makes sense' for Apple, say analysts Apple will launch a 15-in. MacBook Air in the first quarter of 2012, according to a report from a Taiwanese publication that cited unnamed sources in the component supply channel. Read More Apple's 'Black Friday' sale cuts Mac prices up to 10% Apple today cut Mac prices up to 10% in a repeat of the last two years' stingy "Black Friday" deals, which authorized resellers again trumped. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM and Intel Scalable Management for your Virtual Data Center Read this solution brief to see how Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager Workgroup Edition on IBM® System x® servers can centralize and streamline management of a consolidated virtual environment. Read Now VMware backtracks on OS X Client virtualization On Friday, we reported that VMware Fusion 4.1 can run virtual versions of Leopard and Snow Leopard, a feature previously barred by Apple's end-user license agreement. On Monday, the other shoe dropped: VMware posted a blog entry that seems to back away from that feature. Read More Jonny Evans: How Apple could answer Samsung's anti-iPhone ad Samsung's latest Galaxy SII TV slams iPhone lovers and the Apple smartphone's sub-4-inch screen size and lack of 4G support, but, now the gloves are off, how might Apple attack Samsung in return? Read More Jonny Evans: Brazil goes nuts for iPhone as Apple, Foxconn get local Apple is ready to grab an iPhone chunk out of the insanely fast-growing smartphone market of Brazil, where iPhone production has begun. Get ready for yet more growth. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iPhone wins enterprise, is Microsoft relevant? Fueled by the iPhone and iPad, Apple is in the enterprise -- most recently becoming mobile device vendor of choice for one of Microsoft's oldest enterprise allies, Lifetime Products. The cracks are beginning to show in Microsoft's grip on its key market. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple picks Sharp, dumps Samsung for iPad 3 Analyst report claims Apple is dumping Samsung to run with Sharp for future display production, has adopted new manufacturing processes and is preparing for an iPad 3. He also confirms an Apple television is on the way. Read More IT Blogwatch: iPhone 5 rumors of 4-inch IGZO screen Apple is believed to be closer to an iPhone 5 release date. The pomaceous company (NASDAQ:AAPL) is rumored to be funding Hitachi and Sony in making 4-inch IGZO (indium, gallium, zinc) displays. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers recall the disappointment of the 4S announcement keynote. Not to mention: In France, Photoshop is illegal, or something... Read More
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