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- iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler
Frankie70 writes "'Siri's dirty little secret is that she's a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.' A study by Arieso shows that users of the iPhone 4S demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, who were identified as the most demanding in a 2010 study. 'In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S ...
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - Tata presents $20,000 eMO compact EV concept
You could be forgiven for thinking that an electric car called the eMO would be dark-colored, inspire sulkiness in its drivers, and play nothing but My Chemical Romance on its stereo. In this case, however, eMO stands for "Electric MObility study," which is just what India's Tata Technologies designed the concept car as - a study in practical, cost-effective electric city/urban transportation ...
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - PHOTOS: Crowds flock to downtown Naples for annual car show
Thousands of car enthusiasts gathered at the corner of Goodlette Frank and US 41 in downtown Naples to view more than 500 muscle, exotic and classic vehicles Saturday February 4, during the Eighth Annual Car & Truck Show.
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - Opinion: Apple unfairly singled out over Chinese labour abuses
It's simple, folks: Apple's to blame for economic conditions in China, the Kindle Fire is to blame for the freaks of nature that are coming out from Samsung, and Siri is to blame for your grandmother dying alone.
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - Siri doesn't suck bandwidth, it's the users that do, and they're perfectly entitled to do so
Siri data hogging will bring on fire and brimstone, forty years of darkness, the dead rising, human sacrifices, dogs and cats living together ... and make grandma cry.
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - How Siri is ruining your cellphone service
Like a few million other people this past holiday season, we bought an iPhone 4S, with its much-hyped Siri feature. The vocal interface allows users to speak all kinds of commands into the phone (?What?s the weather in San Francisco??) and get answers from a sultry-voiced robot/concierge. Read full article >>
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - The Macalope Weekly: Who to blame?
We have to blame someone, right? How about Apple?
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - Minis are for girls: Gordon
Dakar Rally driver Robby Gordon blasts his rivals for questioning his integrity over the legitimacy of his Hummer vehicle.
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - Siri probably isn't the bandwidth hog the WaPo warned you about
Update : Former Siri director responds to the Washington Post story . Reuters was the original source of the error around Siri bandwidth usage. "How Siri is ruining your cellphone service." That's the searing headline from the Washington Post in an article by Paul Farhi. Farhi claims that "Siri's dirty little secret is that she's a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per ...
hummer h1 06 Feb 2012 - Five Best Friday Columns
Kevin Drum in Mother Jones on the end of privacy. Latching onto Google's recent announcement that it can combine all your information it gleans from you into one mega-profile, Drum takes a bleak look at where personal privacy is headed. "If Google can change its privacy policy today, it can change it tomorrow. And it will. No company is an unstoppable juggernaut forever, and Google is already ...
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