Dubbed the Iris 9000 voice control module, the new product is an iPhone dock that lets owners use their Siri voice control app from across the room. Since you actually have to press a button to activate Siri, the module comes with a remote that lets you activate Siri from across far away. The product works from a 50-foot distance.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 26, 2011
Biographer Walter Isaacson's book documenting Steve Jobs' life and works was published this Monday. In it, one little known fact has the tech world wondering about final project Jobs worked on before he died.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 26, 2011
Dropbox is offering 5GB of free storage in an upcoming joint venture with HTC.
Anthony Myers
Oct 26, 2011
Sprint Nextel posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss but its full year forecast showed the costs of selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone could hurt the results for the rest of the year.
Consella Lee
Oct 26, 2011
Apple Inc. received overwhelming positive responses for iPhone 4S that sold 4 million units during the opening weekend. Despite having fewer features when compared to Samsung Galaxy S2, iPhone 4S promises blazing performance with its A5 chipset and the latest iOS 5.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Oct 26, 2011
Sprint customers using the iPhone 4S are considering returning the smartphones due to slow network speeds and poor performance.
Prarthito Maity
Oct 26, 2011
The Nest Learning Thermostat is a touch-controlled thermostat designed to personalize home energy needs and help save as much as $173 per year on your energy bill, according to Nest Labs who has made it. Tony Fadell, who led the team that designed the iPod at Apple, and contributed to the start of the iPhone project, is the designer behind this thermostat.
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 26, 2011
Broadcom Corp warned revenue could fall as much as 13 percent this quarter due to broad- based weakness in demand, even in wireless, where it supplies chips for Apple Inc products such as the iPhone.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 25, 2011
Telecom/broadband play CenturyLink Inc. (CTL), formerly known as CenturyTel, boasts 15 million telephone access lines, after acquiring Embarq in 2009 and Qwest Communications in April 2011. Where is its stock headed in 2012?
Joseph Lazzaro
Oct 25, 2011
Guns and bloodshed may be the perfect gifts to ensure a merry Christmas for Target Corp .
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 25, 2011
NASA continued to roll out apps for astronomy enthusiasts to view pictures of far off worlds, get updates on missions and receive updates on the International Space Station.
Trevor Stokes
Oct 25, 2011
Apple now may have more cash and securities available than any other company, at least $81.5 billion at the end of its fourth quarter ended Sept. 24.
David Zielenziger
Oct 25, 2011
ThinkGeek has unveiled a new, incredibly geeky addition to the Siri app on Apple's iPhone 4S: a docking bay and speaker system called the IRIS 9000, equipped to look exactly like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Learn what IRIS 9000 can do and watch ThinkGeek's promo video for the eerie iPhone companion, running for $59.99 and already sold out at thinkgeek.com.
Melanie Jones
Oct 25, 2011
An Apple TV prototype is supposedly already in the early stages of development in China and could be available for a late-2012 or early-2013 release date.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Oct 25, 2011
There is no set order of phones to get Android's new OS, but Motorola and Samsung devices are likely the first recipients.
Anthony Myers
Oct 25, 2011
Tony Fadell, the inventor that pitched his idea of the iPod to Steve Jobs, recently left Apple to focus on green technologies. Fadell has been working on a home thermostat called Nest Labs.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 25, 2011
In a sold-out theater in downtown Manhattan, two miles from the square where anti-Wall Street demonstrators daily use iPhones, iPads and other devices to mobilize their forces, a performance artist named Mike Daisey is mounting a subversive attack on Apple Inc.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 25, 2011
Several Steve Jobs profiles suggest that he was interested in conquering TV. We investigate the possibility.
Michael Nunez
Oct 25, 2011
Ten years ago, Apple released the very first iPod, a deceptively simple media player that dramatically changed the way people listen to music. iPod is not the first MP3 player to appear in the world but it is the first to be sold to the masses and it finally revolutionized the music industry.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 25, 2011
Electronic Arts' first person shooter Battlefield 3, released on Tuesday, has been a hit with video game critics.
Roland Li
Oct 25, 2011
Former Apple executive Tony Fadell, who oversaw 18 versions of the iPod and the first three versions of the iPhone, has unveiled his latest invention. The Learning Thermostat uses a simple design to save consumers money on their heating bills.
Dave Smith
Oct 25, 2011
The federal judge overseeing the U.S. Justice Department’s effort to bar AT&T’s $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA handed rival Sprint-Nextel a major defeat.
David Zielenziger
Oct 25, 2011