Siri your wish is its command

Siri on iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk. Siri understands what you say, knows what you mean, and even talks back. Siri is so easy to use and does so much, you’ll keep finding more and more ways to use it.






It understands what you say.Talk to Siri as you would to a person. Say something like “Tell my wife I’m running late.” “Remind me to call the vet.” “Any good burger joints around here?” Siri does what you say, finds the information you need, then answers you. It’s like you’re having a conversation with your iPhone.

It knows what you mean.Siri not only understands what you say, it’s smart enough to know what you mean. So when you ask “Any good burger joints around here?” Siri will reply “I found a number of burger restaurants near you.” Then you can say “Hmm. How about tacos?” Siri remembers that you just asked about restaurants, so it will look for Mexican restaurants in the neighborhood. And Siri is proactive, so it will question you until it finds what you’re looking for.

See how Siri works:

 

It helps you do the things you do every day.Ask Siri to text your dad, remind you to call the dentist, or find directions, and it figures out which apps to use and who you’re talking about. It finds answers for you from the web through sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha. Using Location Services, it looks up where you live, where you work, and where you are. Then it gives you information and the best options based on your current location. From the details in your contacts, it knows your friends, family, boss, and coworkers. So you can tell Siri things like “Text Ryan I’m on my way” or “Remind me to make a dentist appointment when I get to work” or “Call a taxi” and it knows exactly what you mean and what to do.

It has so much to tell you.When there’s something you need to do, just ask Siri to help you do it. Siri uses almost all the built-in apps on iPhone 4S. It writes and sends email messages and texts. It searches the web for anything you need to know. It plays the songs you want to hear. It gives you directions and shows you around. It places calls, schedules meetings, helps you remember, and wakes you up. In fact, ask Siri what it can do — it even speaks for itself.

iPhone 4S takes dictation.Here’s another amazing way to get things done: just use your voice. Instead of typing, tap the microphone icon on the keyboard. Then say what you want to say and iPhone listens. Tap Done, and iPhone converts your words into text. Use dictation to write messages, take notes, search the web, and more. Dictation also works with third-party apps, so you can update your Facebook status, tweet, or write and send Instagrams.

Have you heard the name Simonyi any time ??? The master mind behind the microsoft's word tool creation

FORTUNE -- Without Charles Simonyi the seemingly simple act of composing documents on a computer would be far less intuitive and visually straightforward. As a computer programmer at Microsoft in the 1980s, he led the team that created Word, the ubiquitous word-processing program (he also led the Excel team). Before joining Microsoft, Simonyi (pronounced sim-OH-nyee) worked at Xerox PARC, where he had a hand in inventing the graphical user interface that enabled consumers to see text and formatting on the screen as it would appear in the final document -- an interface known as WYSIWYG, or "what you see is what you get."
Simonyi, 62, is now using his brainpower and wealth (an estimated $1 billion) to try to change the way software is created. His audacious goal: to do for the processing of knowledge -- the stuff that constitutes human understanding -- what he helped do for data processing.

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In his view, word processors or databases are useful but unintelligent. These tools can crunch and organize data, but they can't learn how to interpret it -- they can't intuitively know how humans intend to use the material. "Of course we've already helped knowledge workers with information processing," says Simonyi. "But imagine if you could record knowledge and perform operations on knowledge instead of just information."
When Simonyi left Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) in 2002 after more than two decades there, he founded Intentional Software, an engineering firm, to help realize his vision. Intentional is working on a process that would enable experts in a given field to apply their expertise in a way that would create software programs quickly and automatically. Most important, those experts (lawyers, pension consultants, teachers) could process their knowledge without being able to write software code. By making knowledge processing more efficient, Simonyi says, software development would become less error-prone and much cheaper.
If Intentional's plans sound academic, it's because Simonyi speaks only in the vaguest terms about them. (Theoretical Software might be a better name for the company.) Even prospective customers aren't sure what they're getting themselves into, other than a process that might someday improve their software development. Richard Buskens, a scientist with Lockheed Martin's (LMT, Fortune 500) applied research arm in Cherry Hill, N.J., says his lab only recently began evaluating Simonyi's brainchild. "My understanding is that Intentional's product lets folks quickly and easily build languages, which Intentional calls 'domains,' such that each language/domain can have deep semantic meaning to a domain expert, eliminating the need for a software expert," he writes in an e-mail. He says he has no idea what the end use of Intentional's products will be.
Indeed, Simonyi hasn't seemed particularly concerned about generating revenue at Intentional -- until now. Earlier this year he hired executive Eric Anderson to figure out a business model for the company. Anderson has no experience in the software industry. He is chairman of Space Adventures, the private company that twice sent Simonyi aloft as a space tourist. But Anderson says Intentional and Space Adventures share a common goal -- "to build a new market based on a futuristic idea."
In recent years Simonyi has become more famous for his exploits and adventures than for his considerable technological contributions. In addition to his space tourism (when he traveled to the International Space Station in 2007, he was only the fifth civilian to do so), he accompanied Martha Stewart at social events for more than a decade. In 2008 he married Swedish consultant Lisa Persdotter, who is three decades his junior. The couple are expecting their first child, a daughter, in February.
Many in the computing world are keenly interested in seeing Simonyi return to center stage in the tech world. Fans include Bill Gates, whom Simonyi regularly updates on Intentional's progress. After all, if Simonyi and Intentional succeed, developing software may someday be as simple and intuitive as creating a beautifully formatted, easy-to-read document.
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Microsoft Sketches Its Vision for the Near Future Trend

Microsoft has laid out its vision for the next few years, and it’s a visual feast for techies and futurists.
The dialogue-less video follows a woman taking a business trip, her daughter doing homework and a man in Hong Kong taking the subway to work all against the backdrop of a pulsing electronica soundtrack.
The video, produced by Microsoft’s Office unit with a special thanks to General Motors, is a sequel to last year’s Microsoft in 2019, below.

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Every Android device now infringes Apple patent: Slide to unlock

Summary: Apple has received a confirmed patent for the “slide to unlock” control in use on every Android phone and tablet in existence.

Apple has been riding the patentability of design elements for a while, and has a number of Android device makers on the ropes as a result. A U. S. patent awarded today to Apple guarantees that every Android phone and tablet ever made infringes Apple’s design.

Anyone who has touched an Android device has come face-to-face with the slide to unlock feature. The device is inaccessible until a slider or similar control is touched and slid to a boundary, unlocking the gadget. This simple control has now been patented by Apple, removing it from the available design pool to anyone else.

Apple has been picking and choosing its targets for patent infringement litigation carefully, using various patents it owns to go after infringers. This new patent over the simple slide to unlock feature means the company can go after any Android device maker it wants, and likely have success in the courts.

Heck, the control on Windows Phone devices, sliding the lock screen up to access the phone functions, may very well infringe on this patent too. That could extend to the upcoming Windows 8 as early preview versions use this same control to unlock devices.

Apple filed for the slide to unlock patent before the original iPhone was released, and just received confirmation of the patent. That puts every Android device ever made firmly in the infringing category, should Apple choose to get nasty.

Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70

After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and an esteemed computer scientist, Ritchie was found dead on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent most of his career at Bell Labs, which at the time of his joining in 1967, was one of the largest phone providers in the U.S. and had one of the most well-known research labs in operation.

Working alongside Thompson (who had written B) at Bell in the late sixties, the two men set out to develop a more efficient operating system for the up-and-coming minicomputer, resulting in the release of Unix (running on a DEC PDP-7) in 1971.

Though Unix was cheap and compatible with just about any machine, allowing users to install a variety of software systems, the OS was written in machine (or assembly) language, meaning that it had a small vocabulary and suffered in relation to memory.

By 1973, Ritchie and Thompson had rewritten Unix in C, developing its syntax, functionality, and beyond to give the language the ability to program an operating system. The kernel was published in the same year.

Today, C remains the second most popular programming language in the world (or at least the language in which the second most lines of code have been written), and ushered in C++ and Java; while the pair’s work on Unix led to, among other things, Linus Torvalds’ Linux. The work has without a doubt made Ritchie one of the most important, if not under-recognized, engineers of the modern era.

His work, specifically in relation to UNIX, led to him becoming a joint recipient of the Turing Award with Ken Thompson in 1983, as well as a recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1998 from then-president Bill Clinton.