Judge Koh May Postpone Apple Siri Case Versus Samsung Until 2014

Siri and S-voice

Judge Lucy Koh presiding over the Apple vs. Samsung jury trial may suspend Apple’s second patent lawsuit versus the Asian device maker until the closure of the first one. The suit is a separate claim accusing Samsung of infringing on a bunch of patents, including an invention related to Apple’s proprietary speech recognition service, Siri.
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Siri Could Have Been Android-Exclusive Feature

Siri - Exclusive Feature

As revealed in a fresh story published by the Huffington Post, Verizon was planning to make Siri exclusive to the Android platform before Apple purchased the voice assistant. The carrier reportedly inked a deal with Siri way earlier than the iPhone maker obtained the company – in the fall of 2009.

According to the agreement, the speech recognition technology was supposed to become a built-in app for Android-based handsets on Verizon’s network. The software would come preinstalled on all devices running Google’s mobile operating system starting 2010.
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Apple Is About to Improve Its Siri

Apple Siri

Everybody knows that Apple is currently trying to improve its virtual voice assistant Siri. As follows from that recent post the company hasn’t finished yet and vigorous efforts need to be applied to reach that goal. Being unable to cope with the problem on its own, Apple is searching for somebody to refine the Siri dialog.

 The application Siri is definitely good at providing cultural knowledge and explaining relatively complicated things in rather a funny way. Respectively, the ideal candidate who will try to tackle the problem should combine a sincere love for language, conversation and wordplay with substantial experience in bringing worthy content to life in the sophisticated technical environment.
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Google Tries to Outclass Apple’s Siri

Google Now Siri

Google has recently presented its latest upgrade of Android operating system. This Android 4.1 is also known as Jelly Bean and it comes with Google Now smart assistant. So if anybody wants to know about worthy restaurants out there relevant information including an alternate route will be delivered almost instantly. This advanced search-based feature grabs information from many sources such as a user’s calendar, location, history and Google Maps.

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