iPhone News Updated

Apple Buys Voice Search iPhone App Developer Siri

Apple [AAPL] seems to be spending some of its huge cash reserves this week, as more details have been released on another acquisition. Yesterday we heard that Apple had purchased mobile chip maker Intrinsity for around $120 million.

Apple has now added another company to its acquisition list with the recent purchase of Siri, a company who makes a search application for the iPhone that lets users search on mobile devices via voice or text.

The deal is rumored to have cost Apple about $200 million. Siri makes an application for the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch that lets users search in natural language, for example ‘Find where Iron Man 2 is playing in 3D near my home’.

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iPhone Saga Hits Prime Time as Jon Stewart Skewers Apple

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on Wednesday night weighed in on the lost iPhone debacle skewering Apple over the police raid on Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen’s house.

Stewart doesn’t delve into the whole lost vs. stolen iPhone issue as justification for the raid, but The Daily Show’s sketch does deliver some hilarious moments. Riffing off the Microsoft is evil, Apple is good trope, Stewart says, “You guys are busting down doors in Palo Alto while Commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes? What the f*$k is going on?”

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