On the iPhone 4S launch date just a couple of weeks ago, we broke the news that developer Steven Troughton-Smith had successfully ported the Siri user-interface and some of the underlying code from the iPhone 4S onto the iPhone 4. The port was functional except for the most important part: talking to Apple’s servers. Now, [...]

Samsung is now officially the world’s largest maker of smartphones, shipping around 28 million of the devices — almost all Android-powered – in the third quarter, compared to Apple’s 17.1 million phones. This is just the latest milestone that helps put an end to the fallacy that iPhones will rule the world. When Android phones [...]

Steve Jobs final words? Really, just a final phrase, repeated in triplicate: “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” That’s but the capstone of a gripping eulogy delivered by Steve Jobs’ biological sister, author Mona Simpson, at Jobs’ October 16 memorial service at Stanford University. The New York Times printed a transcript of Simpson’s thoughts today, [...]

Despite being obvious competitors, Apple and Nokia face similar challenges ahead as Apple tries to crack the competitive TV market and Nokia gasps for survival in smartphones. While Apple is clearly at the top of its game and Nokia is at other end of the spectrum, struggling to be relevant again, both have very similar [...]