Dag Kittlaus, creator of Siri, recently spoke at an economic development event in his hometown of Michigan City, Indiana, and iMore had the chance to listen in and ask him some question about the challenges they faced in implementing Siri and where he thinks the future of technology is headed. According to Kittlaus, interfaces such [...]
Archive for April 26th, 2012
Siri co-founder talks to iMore about the future of technology, mobile interfaces, and implementing Siri
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
Nintendo posts first annual financial loss as casual gaming continues to shift to Apple and iPhone
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
Nintendo recently posted their full-year financial results, which included their first operating loss amounting to a deficit of $458 million. Over the whole year, Nintendo sold 13.5 million 3DS portable systems worldwide; to put that in perspective, Apple sold about 9 million iPhones in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2012 alone. Nintendo is optimistically [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod 
Tags: Nintendo Wii, Penny Arcade, Super Mario, Virtual Console 
Comments OffSteve Jobs wanted to plant golden ticket with millionth iMac, give winner a tour of Apple in Willy Wonka garb
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
According to yet another Steve Jobs biography, Apple’s late CEO wanted to hide a golden ticket with the millionth iMac computer and fly the winner out to Cupertino for a tour of the facilities. Jobs said he would even wear the Willy Wonka outfit for the whole thing. This was revealed by Ken Segall, an [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: Ken Segall, Steve Jobs, Think Different, Willy Wonka Comments OffBody Glove DropSuit Rugged Case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 only $10.95 [Daily deal]
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
For today only, the iMore iPhone accessory store has the Body Glove DropSuit Rugged Case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 on sale for only $10.95. That’s a whopping 45% off! Get it before it’s gone! Shop Body Glove DropSuit Rugged Case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 now! The Body Glove DropSuit rugged case [...]
Will you use Google Drive? [Poll]
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
Will you use Google Drive? At long, long last Google has finally unveiled their cloud storage solution — Google Drive. So will you use it? It took so long to get here that many of us have already gone all in on something else, either Dropbox, Box, SugarSync, or even the increasingly iPhone and iPad [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: Does Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Services Comments OffPresident Obama tries out Sphero, the iPhone controlled rolling robot
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
During a visit to Boulder, Colorado and Colorado University, U.S. President Barack Obama was caught on video test driving a Sphero — an iPhone controlled rolling robot. Obama first watches the Sphero roll around, remarking “how cool is that, you can make the ball do all kinds of stuff”, before taking the iPhone and taking [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: CES, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Secret Service Comments OffSir Jonathan Ive wins British Visionary Innovator award for 2012
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
Sir Jonathan Ive has won the British Visionary Innovator 2012 award organised by the Intellectual Property Office. The award comes after the competition was open for seven days and allowed the public to vote for their most innovative person of 2012. After a week of voting, you have chosen Sir Jonathan Ive as your favourite British Visionary Innovator [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: BBC, British Visionary Innovator, James Goodfellow, Sir Jonathan Ive Comments OffAutomatically sync your annotated PDFs to Dropbox with Remarks for iPad [Giveaway]
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
One of my favorite PDF annotating apps for iPad, Remarks by Readdle, just got even better with the addition of automatic two-way Dropbox syncing. With the new update, a new, blue folder named Remarks and labeled with Dropbox will appear in your notes once you link your Dropbox account with Remarks. Any notes you create [...]
Weekly Photo Contest: Negative Space!
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to announce this week’s photo contest — and the winner of last week’s panorama photography contest. Before I do, I want to congratulate everyone on their awesome entries. We’ve got some talented iPhoneographer readers here at iMore and it wasn’t an easy decision! And the winning entry is… …this [...]
Shadowrun Returns game coming to iPad, deckers rejoice
Posted by ryan on April 26th, 2012
Shadowrun fans will be happy to hear that a new game in the classic cyberpunk setting is well on its way thanks to Kickstarter, and that we’ll be seeing it on iOS and Android tablets. Funding wraps up this Sunday, and they’re already blown past their $400,000 goal with over $1.4 million from fans. Much [...]
