We've previously seen Apple's much raved about Siri intelligent assistant feature hacked to work on an iPhone 4, but now developers have managed to hack the feature to work on an old iPhone 3GS. The hack comes from developers Grant Paul and Steve Troughton-Smith, while a video demoing the hack was posted by Ryan Petrich.
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Samsung VP Gavin Kim leaves to head Microsoft’s Windows Phone team
Samsung's VP of consumer and enterprise services, Gavin Kim, is departing the company to join Microsoft as the general manager of the Windows Phone team. The two companies have been working towards a closer alliance, having recently inked a deal over Android patent issues. This move by Kim could further strengthen their ties and bring some of Samsung's success to boost confidence in Windows Phones.
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Google Doodle Marie Curie: a fun fact
Though this Monday, November 7th 2011, Google celebrated the life of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie, renowned scientist responsible with her husband for discovering radium and polonium, it's the lesser known facts about this woman and her legacy that might strike you as the most interesting. If you're a member of the scientific community, especially if you're studying physics and/or chemistry in a general way, you'll more than likely already know that Curie's contributions to the fields are more than notable enough to deserver recognition from Google. What you might NOT know is that because of the low level of awareness of the dangers of working with radioactive materials in her time, the many papers she wrote and the tools she worked with throughout her studies are not safe to touch by humans today.
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Swann releases Freestyle HD 1080p wearable video camera
Swann released a new video camera today called the Freestyle HD. It's designed to be wearable and you can easily mount it to bikes, cars, and helmets as well. It offers Full HD 1080p video capture with up to 3x digital zoom and can snap photos in JPEG format with its 8-megapixel sensor. It also has a detachable LCD viewer.
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Pioneer reveals Zypr as free, open alternative to Siri
Pioneer launched a free platform today called Zypr that will offer intelligent voice-controlled assistance features similar to Apple's Siri. Whereas Siri is currently limited to only the iPhone 4S and will likely still remain limited to iOS over time, Zypr isn't limited to only one mobile operating system and can be used on smartphones, tablets, and other consumer electronic devices, including in-vehicle entertainment systems, smart TVs, and more.
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Windows Phone six stories tall appears in NYC [Videos]
In a mobile landscape in which it appears that smartphones will just keep getting bigger and bigger, Microsoft has pulled out all the stops, creating this week a six story tall building shapes like a Windows Phone to wow the citizens of the Big Apple. This device is no Windows Phone per say, but a construct made to promote new Windows Phones on AT&T and T-Mobile and will feature different scenes throughout its lifespan such as life-size Plants vs. Zombies and live bands playing music. I’ll take one!
Windows Phone Mango gets Spotify
This week all you lovers of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform working with the newest version 7.5 Mango have the ability to use Spotify for the first time. Spotify is a streaming music group that works on several mobile platforms and desktop computers, and this version of Spotify promises to be the most optimized version for mobile yet. What you'll notice first and foremost is the fact that the app looks completely different from any other version of its diverse interface thus far release - Windows Phone intense!
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iPhone 4S pre-order stock sold out in 10 minutes in Hong Kong
It appears that no matter what you may think of the iPhone 4S and its perceived half-step between 4 and 5, it's selling like there's no tomorrow around the world - the latest case of this iPhone fever takes place in Hong Kong, China, where analyst Brian White notes stock sold out in 10 minutes. This device is set to be placed on shelves in Apple stores in Hong Kong starting on November 11th with 14 other countries simultaneously. No word yet on if stock will be dipped into now that pre-orders are dry.
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Google+ Pages announced for businesses [Video]
This week brands, businesses, bands, and more are being welcomed back to Google+, provided they didn't get offended after having gotten kicked out several weeks ago, in an initiative known officially as Google+ Pages. As Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product for Google+ notes, "As most of you know, we "kicked out the brands" in the early going on Google+... Not because we don't love them (we do!) but because we wanted to create the right experience for users, as well as the brands themselves." Will the Google-based social networking powerhouse be able to gather the brands to its bosom?
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HTC Edge images leaked, quad-core smartphone in the flesh
In what appears to be images of a very real smartphone by the name of HTC Edge, we may well be seeing the first quad-core handset to hit the streets in the coming months. What this device represents is not only one of the first quad-core mobile devices to arrive in the world, but the first quad-core device to arrive for HTC as a manufacturer. One question that immediately comes to mind is how an HTC device would be running a quad-core chip when historically they've only used Qualcomm in the past and said processor manufacturer doesn't yet have an announced quad-core chip in the works - let's see how this all adds up.
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ASUS Sabertooth X79 motherboard rundown
It's been revealed by ASUS that their next big platform will be what you see before you here, the Sabertooth X79, seen here in its nude motherboard state. Inside you'll find the upcoming Intel X79 chipset sitting nicely in this TUF series motherboard, the whole thing made to be reliable and a "long term investment" by the folks as ASUS. Military grade hardware for the elements and power galore - let's have a look at what we've got going here.
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NOOK Tablet hands-on roundup from around the web
At an event that was very clearly aimed directly at the Kindle Fire this week, Barnes & Noble revealed their next-generation NOOK, named the NOOK Tablet and looking just as lovely as the original NOOK Color. So similar, in fact, that it's essentially the same design save the innards which are twice as powerful and the TINY change in chassis that makes it ever so slightly lighter and thinner. Below have a look at some hands-on accounts with the device from around the web.
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