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Google hires Apple exec to work on 'secret project'

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Google appears to have scored another coup in its ongoing rivalry with Apple, having reportedly lured one of the company's senior directors to its Mountain View headquarters. Simon Prakash, pictured above, has worked at Apple for more than eight years, most recently serving as the firm's senior director of product integrity.

Published 4 days 11 hours ago
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Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally destroy" textbook publishing

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Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the "GarageBand for e-books," so to speak—and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users.

Published 3 weeks 3 days ago
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Siri causes iPhone 4S users to gobble data.

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When Apple unveiled its iPhone 4S in 2011 — and we realized that our dreams of a proper iPhone 5 were at least a year off — the biggest new feature was undoubtedly the built-in virtual assistant called Siri. Siri allows users to simply ask for things like directions, weather reports, or message dictation, and the robotic voice takes care of all the heavy lifting. Unfortunately, it seems that Siri's intelligent ways can weigh heavy on monthly data caps, and network analyst firm Arieso estimates Siri users take up twice the bandwidth of a non-4S iPhone owner.

Published 5 weeks 2 hours ago
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Gifts for Hipsters

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Think of these words when you think hipster: retro, vintage, bohemian, underground, and alternative. Now try to Picture this... Thick black rimmed glasses, super skinny jeans almost cutting off the circulation in their calves, a fedora, cotton scarf wrapped around their neck, no matter how hot it is outside, an ugly blouse with a pattern from the 70's, a pair of good ole' chucks, complete with an Apple product in hand and you have yourself a Hipster.

Siri for Android ... no, not really

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It would be a cold day in hell before Apple released an Android-compatible Siri voice-control app, but that hasn’t stopped unscrupulous Andoid developers from making fake versions of Siri and pushing them into the Android Market.

Published 5 weeks 4 days ago
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