Siri makes life easy…!

We all know that iPhone 4S has been released with a new voice assistant “Siri”. It is becoming reality Siri is more helpful for the iPhone 4S users. For Apple Siri and iCloud is a step towards Google’s domain. Cloud computing web and web services. At the same time Siri helps you get answers and currently it syncs with wolfram alpha and yelp before running a Google search and it also includes Yahoo and Bing. Especially since 2/3^rd of their mobile traffic comes from iOS, so it is the reason for Google to worry.

So when at Google Android boss Andy Robin takes shows up to AllthingsD’s AsiaD he tries o downplay Siri and we so wish that he had a better argument to back up his claim. Robin commented that the phone is a tool for communicating and one shouldn’t be communicating with phone instead. He basically tried to suggest that one isn’t supposed to interact with Siri on the iPhone but with others using the device as a phone. So certainly if making call was only objective of the handheld phones, even my 10 yr old Nokia does that for me. The hogwash from Rubin takes us a decade back and far away from mobile computing. One thing Apple fans want to say is dear Andy Siri makes computing easy, it connects, it get things done…… it makes life easy..!

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Is SIRI creating a Security threat to iPhone 4S?

SIRI of course offers you a smart and intelligent way to interact with your iPhone. It’s one of the advanced features that recognizes your speech and responds in a friendly manner. Well battery power is not the only thing here that’s getting sacrificed for using this elegant feature. Questions are actually raising eyebrows as to how safe can your iPhone be, through such an application? 

It’s been noticed that SIRI is capable of accessing a whole lot of functions from your iPhone without even entering the passcode. Reports indicate that SIRI has been changing calendar appointments, writing text messages and sending emails without even entering the passcode that adds the security for your iPhone. But Apple is a bit concerned about the issue and has already come up with the solution through iOS 5. So now make sure that SIRI doesn’t entertain a stranger or doesn’t accept his voice commands instead of yours. Just follow these basic steps to restrain the unauthorized access.

Navigate to Settings > General > Passcode Lock> SIRI > OFF. This will make your smart app completely available to you. By default, SIRI is enabled in your iPhone even if you set a passcode lock. Unless and until the settings are changed to switch off SIRI, an external access is very much possible.

Well, the reality lies with Apple whether why such a problem remained unnoticed. For those who give extreme importance to the security issues, this remedy must be of great relief.

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