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Could Siri Assitant be the backbone for iOS 5 update?

RustyG — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:00:47 +0000

Well it seems since Apple purchased Siri last April (2010), this new update to the iOS in June may be the reasoning for that purchase. There are rumors flying around that the voice recognition that is currently in the iPhone will be deeply integrated into the next iOS update. Siri originally won the 2010 Most Innovative Web Technology award at SXSW. The app helps you with voice activated commands and searches instead of having to type into the app. It’s great because you can do voice commands like “I need a taxi.” or “Where is the closest grocery store?”. There was supposedly at one time a command to call people inside the app, but I don’t see it the latest update to the app. It just leaves a text confirmation that it isn’t there yet, but coming soon. So is that a pre-cursor to validate that this rumor could be true? I don’t know, but it will be revealed soon.

The iPhone currently already does some of these voice commands like Call Jeff or Play Breaking Benjamin, but it maybe that this new update could bring more commands to the already popular iPhone.

via [Digg] via [Edible Apple]

Windows Phone 7 to get NFC too?

RustyG — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:00:50 +0000

Well it seems the NFC rumors are getting louder and louder about NFC. With all the rumors about this technology going into the next iPhone, then not going into it, then it is; it seem that Microsoft wants to get into the rumor mill as well with its phones. These NFC chips are already being tested at Bank of America and in San Francisco. Right now though, this is all blackberry testing, no iOS or WP7 devices yet. It seems that the devices could support this technology even as early as this year. What is bad, is that Nokia already ships devices with this chip in it. So it seems everyone else is behind and trying to catch up.

Could this be in your next WP7 device? Could it be in the upcoming iOS update?

I can’t hardly wait to be honest, that’s one less thing that I have to carry with me when I go to concerts and events!!

(watch this trail… I thought it was funny to see how this story got around the web, since I found it on Digg first)

via [Digg] via [IntoMobile] via [Engadget] via [Bloomberg]

(i love following trails… Digg-news aggregator to site[IntoMobile] that got it from news aggregator Engadget that got it from Bloomberg. Nice. )

Kinect hacked for use on PS3

RustyG — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:00:25 +0000

Ok, so I saw this, and I had to put something up. This kid has hacked his Kinect, along with some crazy software connected to his laptop to make it work with his PS3. I love homebrew stuff. This is awesome! Next thing ya know, Sony will have to stop selling the Move accessories! Ha ha. You can check out how he did it with the link above, check out the video below:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QnWDRF9w7k

via [Digg]

You think WiFi is free???

RustyG — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:32:38 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zt4opqL18

via [Digg]

Google Goggles announced and confirmed for the iPhone

RustyG — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:02:44 +0000

Google announced Monday, Google goggles for the Android platform. What is Google goggles you ask? Let this video explain:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4

Basically it allows you to search via the camera on your phone. Google says you can search via a picture of a landmark, book cover, DVD/Blu-Ray cover, artwork and logos. Just simply take a photo of the item and it should bring up the appropriate search result. Now I have seen a review on the app on Verizon’s Motorola Droid on AppJudgement and it seems that it is currently a work in progress. It didn’t seem to work very well on the barcodes, but seemed to be fine on the covers. It will be very close to other apps like Yelp!, but won’t be the augmented reality like in yelp. It will help find some of your searches in nearby stores for price comparison though. This is awesome for the Android platform, but what about the iPhone? As of the other day, TechRadar said it has confirmation that the program will soon hit the iPhone as well! Awesome! Can’t wait to try this app out!

via [Digg] via [TechRadar]

Vevo launched tonight, who cares?

RustyG — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:10:46 +0000

So yet another announcement is out today, VEVO. You ask, what is VEVO? Well V (for short) is a video music website. Basically think of YouTube, but with out all the dups and crappy vids of people who put still images together and put the music in the background, I hate those guys. Backed by Universal, YouTube and Google, they had a launch party tonight with Bono and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There were some exclusives to service that were shown, but is hard to see what is going on, due to so much traffic hitting the website. I still keep getting a tempweb thingy….

To be completely honest, I have no faith in this being a successful venture by any means. Music videos have always had a place, and that used to be MTV, but now I think it’s mostly BETv and Fuze. Artists have always had a hard time, as well as labels monetizing their videos. Most of the newer CDs I get come with an extra DVD or video cd in which I can download the video to my computer.

I just call this one now, and say epic FAIL.

via [Digg]&[Mashable]

-Sent from my iPhone is still ok!

RustyG — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:10:19 +0000

So I was on digg (as I am everyday..) and I was reading this article about Steve Jobs being a man of few words, and I absolutely LOVED it!!! This was a great read, but I had to laugh at his reply, it had the “Sent from my iPhone” signature attached! I remember reading an article somewhere saying that it was no longer o.k. to do that, and that you were just being a doucebag if you still had that on your emails.

Well, king of douchebags is still doing it, so I call it now, it’s still o.k.!

where fore art thou tethering for the iPhone?

RustyG — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:42:01 +0000

Has anyone questioned At&t and why we don’t have tethering yet on the iPhone? Have we just completely forgot that we were told that we would have it by the end of summer this year??? It was talked about that we would pay an extra $10 for the option (above the $30 for unlimited data) as do the blackberry users. This information was presented to us at the time of release of the iPhone 3.0 OS. When the iPhone 3GS was launched across the globe, many countries got this feature right off the bat, along with MMS! At&t dropped the ball and we didn’t get MMS until September!!!! Surprisingly, they didn’t even charge extra for having a feature that my black Razr V3 had like 7 years ago!!!! Here we are, going into the Christmas season of 09′ and we still have no road map or anything telling us when it is coming!

photo credit: ismashphone.com

The good thing is, I’m not a newby iPhone user and I have jailbroken mine. (Mind you, I don’t know how it actually works, but at least I can download the software and get out from the apple chains!!!) I actually updated my carrier file to 5.0 before Apple updated to 3.1 and I’ve had tethering enabled for quite a while now, and it didn’t require a jailbreak! Before that, I was using iPhoneModem 3.0, which I still use every now and then if I don’t have the USB cable.

There are plenty of other options out there as well, and a few that made it into the iTunes App store, but were eventually pulled. To be honest, I really don’t use the option that much, as I am either at work, home or even school where there is wireless that I can hope on. The only time I don’t use work or school and iPhone modem instead is when I want to do some financial transaction.

You can see where this post got inspired from:

via [Digg] via [iSmashphone]

h@x0r$ g@l0r3

RustyG — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:15:23 +0000

If you don’t get my title, you may not even care to read this article, but there are plenty of hackers out there this past week. If you haven’t heard, there has been a lot of hacking going on over the past few days and weeks that have made the national news. Even Conan O’brien talked about it, because iPhones worlwide have been ‘rickrolled‘. (Only jailbroken phones, so no the majority of owners.)

Down in Georgia, 4 guys from Europe were indicted in a $9.5 million bank card attack. They basically did social engineering hacks to get pin numbers from active accounts and hacked in the RBS servers and moved money around into their accounts. They ran their attacks around the world and collected $9.5 million.

Then M$’s “COFFEE” (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) has been leaked out onto the interet for FREE. This is said to be illegal to have on the streets, but free to any law enforcement agency. This is a program that was created by Microsoft to get into most XP machines without any problems and gives an all access pass to the officer. M$ is said to be re-creating a new version for Vista and Windows 7.

Just a few stories about hackers this week….

iPhone ‘rickrolled’ Worm via [Digg]

Bank Card Attack via [Digg]

COFFEE via [Digg]

Firefox 3.6 Beta now available

RustyG — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:05:56 +0000

One of the best browsers out there (anything is better than IE) is laying down it’s next beta version 3.6! If you would like to download it and try it out, head on over to the site and find your language and download it! You can get the full scoop about all the new updates over at the Mozilla blog.

via [Digg] & [Lifehacker]