Remains of the Day: Up in the air

27.03.2012

"Siri, who's winning the Red Sox-Yankees game?" Right now, that query will just prompt the iPhone 4S's virtual assistant to run a Web search for you. But in the future--!--Siri might actually be able to give you that score, if developer Evan Coleman is right. Hopefully, Siri will also be able to use geolocation to add, for the virtue of us Boston natives, that the Yankees suck.

(52tiger)

Speaking of Siri, here's a neat tip: You can ask Siri to search Wolfram Alpha for planes overhead, and it'll tell you which flights are passing over your current location. I wonder if Siri ?

(PaloAltoPatch)

Cupertino's Chamber of Commerce posthumously honored Steve Jobs with the President's Award at the organization's Service Teamwork Achievement Recognition (STAR) awards this past weekend. Apple senior manager for state and local government affairs, Michael Foulkes, accepted the award on Jobs's behalf, saying that the former CEO "hated awards, especially awards about him."