Google pulls “Siri for Android” app from Android Market

Posted in iPhone News by admin. Published January 4th, 2012

A number of wannabe apps that try to mimic the capabilities of Apple’s Siri on the iPhone 4S have shown up in the Android Market over the past few months, but none went so far as to appropriate the Siri name and app icon - except for one.

Thankfully, Google has caught on to the infringing app, the so-called “Siri for Android,” and has pulled it from the Market.

The Siri for Android app not only took Apple’s copyrighted name, but it also used the same microphone over a metal coin design for its icon as Apple uses for Siri on the iPhone 4S. While it had the appearance of offering a new service to the Android platform, all it actually did was open the Voice Actions service that is built into every Android phone. Apparently, about 1,000 people downloaded the app before Google was able to remove it from the market. Google went ahead and banned the developer from the Market as well.

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untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak/unlock announced for the iPhone 4S/4 and iPad 2 using redsnow

Posted in iPhone News, iPhone Tips by admin. Published December 27th, 2011

Great news for iPhone enthusiasts as JailbreakiPhone4S have released the latest software to Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 4S/4 iOS 5.0.1 untethered. It is now available at:JailbreakiPhone4S.com

JailbreakiPhone4S have been providing iPhone jailbreak/unlock solutions since the release of the iPhone 4. The new software allows you to unlock and jailbreak the latest iOS 5.0.1 installed on the iPhone 3Gs, 4s and iPhone 4.

Unlocking and jailbreaking your iPhone enables many fantastic, new and exciting features that are limited on the standard factory iPhone. These include the use of all network providers from around the globe, application such as Cydia, MXTube, SB Settings and much more.

Jailbreak iPhone 4S state that their software is the easiest, safest and most reliable iPhone jailbreak/unlock solution on the market today and after running the software on multiple models of the iPhone we can safely say that this statement is correct.

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