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iOS 4.3 update: Not live last night, but might be live tonight (er, maybe)

Think Apple fans will believe anything CEO Steve Jobs says? Think again. Jobs announced last week that the iOS 4.3 software update would be made available on 11 March, yet yesterday saw people around the world frantically hammering the ‘Check for Update’ button in iTunes around 6pm GMT, after rumours that the update was arriving three days early. It didn’t. …

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iOS 5 may have smarter voice

Adding full-blown voice recognition to mobile phones is a total no-brainer. Apple may be the first to achieve it by marrying its advanced office-friendly iPhone and iPad apps with decent native voice recognition in iOS 5. Jobs’ mob is in “serious negotiations” with speech technology company Nuance, according to TechCrunch. Some voice control is present in iOS, but it’s far …

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