Today, iTunes Match went down. Yesterday, it was iMessage and FaceTime. Since launching iCloud to the public on October 12th, 2011, Apple just hasn't been able to keep its cloud-based services airborne. Read More >>

Poor old Siri has lost its daddy, with Apple's iOS boss Scott Forstall recently leaving the company under slightly dodgy circumstances. Here's how Siri learned of the news of the departure of its creator. And if you're reading this, Siri, we've never really liked you very much either. [AllThingsD] Read More >>

OK, so we've seen how Google's new voice search app handles itself against Siri in the US, but what about in good old Blighty? Siri's been notoriously crap in the UK, and only recently stopped annoying the hell out of us with "I'm sorry... only in US English and in the United States." So, which one's better in the UK? Google's voice search or Siri? Read More >>

With Google's release of its brand new search app for iOS, we decided to put Siri in the ring with Voice Search — now available on your iPhone — to see if she could defend her own turf. Read More >>

Apple's Siri personal assistant, which got into a little bit of trouble for suggesting places once could pick up accommodating ladies in China, has had the sex-finding part of its brain removed by Apple's tech people. Read More >>

Apple's virtual assistant has been a little too kind to customers in China, causing a bit of a fuss after it answered questions about where users could find themselves a highly rated local prostitute. Read More >>

Siri sometimes says crazy things that don't quite match up with what you've asked. But the Verge has discovered that she has some pretty strong opinions when it comes to movies. Read More >>

Some people willingly overpay for half-baked features in obscure gadgets. These are the early adopters of the world, and they know full well that the things they buy will not work perfectly. Hiccups and glitches are just part of the contract, the accepted trade-off for being first. Read More >>

Believe it or not, new Siri on iOS 6 might actually be useful in the UK, finally doing what you ask instead of spitting out the "Only in the US" rubbish we're used to. We took new Siri from the final, release version of iOS 6 for a quick test run, and put it up against crappy old, iOS 5 Siri. Read More >>

Dictation on the Mac is pretty nice, for what it is, but Apple isn't the first to pull that off. According to a new patent application though, it might be eyeing something more ambitious: full Siri control on the Mac. Read More >>

Audience, the company responsible for developing the EarSmart technology which power's Siri, has announced that Apple is "unlikely" to use the system in the next-generation iPhone. Read More >>

Even Apple's Siri, arguably the cutting-edge of synthesised computer voices, sounds incredibly fake. To the point where you'd think that field of research has only been around for about 10 years. But shockingly it dates back to the 1930s—80+ years ago! Read More >>

RIM is set to jump on the clumsy voice control/personal assistant bandwagon, with developers reporting that the latest BlackBerry 10 OS alpha code has been updated to feature a selection of voice-activated personal assistant features. Read More >>

The latest installment in Apple's arsenal of celebrity Siri promos is here, featuring a very peppy Martin Scorsese headed downtown in a yellow NYC taxi. Marty makes the most of his time alone with his virtual assistant, switching around appointments and consulting her for the downtown traffic report. Read More >>

Pitting Google search against Siri using a monster 1600-question test shows how useful Siri really is: not at all. Google answered correctly 86 per cent of the time. Siri achieved just 68 per cent accuracy. At that point, it's not much better than a crystal ball. Read More >>