Curious 12-year-old Charlie Le Quesne just innocently wanted to know how many people there were in the world when he happened to be chewed out profanely by the iPhone app Siri in a Tesco –a British superstore, similar to Target– located in Coventry. “Shut the f*** up, you ugly tw*t!” exclaimed the foul-mouthed app.

Thursday evening, CNN’s John King reported on the Saga of Siri. For those of you who require a recap: Siri is the personal assistant the iPhone 4 uses to help you answer your questions, find directions, make you feel loved, etc. Siri’s inability and/or apparent unwillingness to provide information about nearby abortion facilities caused a [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to the controversy and questions swirling around Siri’s apparent unwillingness to point users in the direction of abortion clinics in their areas. Siri, as you’re likely aware, is the iPhone 4′s “personal assistant” function, which responds to users questions and requests.

Siri! Everyone loves Siri! For those who are unfamiliar, Siri is the voice recognition technology utilized by the iPhone 4 to help you, say, find the nearest gun shop, or diagnose the questionable patch of hair forming on your belly. What Siri will not do, apparently, is point you in the direction of the nearest abortion clinic.

On Tuesday’s edition of Fox News’s Your World, Neil Cavuto interviewed Scott Martin, CEO of a diversified financial services company and conflated news of Apple’s earning report with footage of Occupy Wall Street protestors using Apple iPhones. “We noticed that plenty of the protesters railing against capitalism on Wall Street, they use a lot of Apple products. Can they have it both ways?” Cavuto snarked.

Fans of Stephen Colbert know that he is a big fan of Apple; his constant begging for and then showing off of the latest Apple products has been a recurring bit on his show. So when news broke on Wednesday that Apple founder Steve Jobs had died, some probably wondered how the fake news man would report the news. Last night this question was answered, when Colbert showed a highlight-reel of past bits that were both funny and a fitting homage to the Apple products he loved.

TV keeps expanding from that screen in your living room, and today CNN begins 24-hour live streaming its entire on-air schedule to 50 million people who’ve downloaded CNN’s app and have satellite, cable or telco service, part of the network’s participation in the TV Everywhere initiative. “We have long believed that our growth depends on [...]

So here’s the situation; imagine you’re at a concert seeing the latest, uh – what do the kids like? – let’s say…MGMT show. They’re still cool, right? Anyway, you’re watching them and you know your best buddy’s favorite song is…I don’t know…”Time to Pretend” or whatever. So, when the band kicks into it, you pull out your phone to video tape the song so you can show your friend a fuzzy version with unbearable audio ostensibly to share the experience but mostly just to make him jealous. Anyway, the instant you hit record, technology in your phone recognizes your taping a concert and instantly shuts the recording down. Crazy? Not if a reported patent filed by Apple goes through.

One of the most effective Super Bowl commercials this year belonged to Motorola, who parodied Apple’s famous “1984″ ad and posited that now the shoe’s on the other foot and the prevalence of Apple products was turning us into white earbud-using zombies. Last night, while plugging in my iPhone, I felt the same way. The simple, white charger was just so plain and ubiquitous and boring. But, I didn’t want a Motorola. No, I wanted something new. Something terrifying. Something that looked like it came out of David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. Isn’t there some designer out there who can help me out?!

Oh, of course. What was I thinking? I should’ve just looked to Japan where someone’s invented a charger that looks and moves like an umbilical cord.

On Tuesday night’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart heralded the availability of the iPhone to Verizon Wireless customers, breaking the exclusive stranglehold on the devices by much-maligned AT&T. In a bit that comically equated the news to the fall of Baghdad and the end of World War II, correspondent John Oliver chronicled just the latest cruel blow to the once-proud monopoly.

Fox News’ Shepard Smith thinks the buzz surrounding Verizon’s announcement that it will offer the 14GB and 16GB iPhone 4 next month is all well and good and whatever, but. Can we talk about how much his cable company sucks?

Good morning, sunshine! Does the light out your window look particularly bright? Do you feel way more well-rested than you expected to be? Well, if you use your iPhone’s alarm to wake yourself up in the morning, that could be the cause as, for the past two days (and for many, today as well) a glitch caused by the calendar year changing has kept non-recurring alarms from going off. That’s right. It’s time to forward this article to your boss.

Are you a busy, on-the-go professional who wishes there was a way to access top-secret government documents and diplomatic cables from your smartphone? As of last Friday, there was an app for that. But last night, Apple decided to pull the WikiLeaks App from its AppStore, joining Amazon, MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal as companies that have distanced themselves from the Julian Assange-led organization.

As the music industry continues to crumble, major record labels can only afford to fund the bigger acts, leaving up-and-coming bands to find their own means of promotion. One band, Atomic Tom, took matters iPhones into their their own hands when they played a full song for NYC subway riders — using only their smartphones

Bill Maher‘s public disillusion with President Barack Obama continued on last night’s Real Time, where Maher expressed confusion at the fact that the President was now denouncing technology, a reference to his commencement speech last week asking graduates to give up the “iPads” and “XBoxes.” “What’s with the fuddy-duddy act?” asked Maher, concluding that his newfound confusion was an appeal to the fact that “America conflates out of touch with adorable.”

The spat between Gizmodo and Apple over Gizmodo’s mysterious acquisition of an iPhone 4G months before its release has proven to be an endlessly engrossing spectacle for the techies out there. Well, last night, Gizmodo got a very high-profile and consumer friendly supporter: Jon Stewart

Well, this gives the lie to the theory that Gizmodo’s bombshell article about the leaked iPhone 4G a. was an Apple plant and b. would have no legal repercussions. Jason Chen, the Gizmodo editor who authored the piece and took apart the iPhone, had his house raided by California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, who he says seized four of his computers and two servers, made him stand outside of his own house with his hands on his head, and tried to dredge up the source of the leaked iPhone.

Wow. If we are to believe this story to be true (and, honestly, why wouldn’t we?) a prototype for the new Apple iPhone was found lost in a bar in Redwood City. Engadget had the first pictures this weekend, but now Gizmodo has a lovely video walk-through that will get any iPhone user excited about an upgrade. One can only wonder, hope pray that somehow the new iPhone will also come with less dropped calls?

Today, Vogue unveiled their highly anticipated free iPhone application, Vogue Stylist. Rather than an application that takes users through the editorial they are already seeing on the pages of an issue, Vogue Stylist aims to inform users of the hottest trends from the pages of Vogue, and style those trends in conjunction with one’s own personal wardrobe.

I saw the Sport Illustrated demo video long before the iPad was released. It was everything the iPad should have been on Day One. A mind-blowing demonstration of what the future of the magazine could be. The problem is, the iPad cannot do what the demo shows and it should have. Flash is the only current technology that would make that possible.

Robert Gibbs – White House press secretary, Fox News guest, iPhone pitchman?

The White House is touting its brand new iPhone app, and Gibbs plays the Luke Wilson role in a commercial of sorts for the product.

Paul Krugman of the New York Times is calling this economic decade ‘The Big Zero ,’ saying “It was a decade in which nothing good happened.” Paul and I smoke insanely different tobacco. As an entrepreneur that has managed a hedge fund now for 11 plus years through bubbles and crashes, I almost take offense.

That was quick: in mid-September, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey told the St. Louis Riverfront Times that he was launching a new startup. Flash forward to two-and-a-half months later: Square, a service that allows users to make credit card payments using their iPhones, was rolled out today. And its creators plan to develop it for more phones in the future.

Magazines are struggling — have you heard? But let’s look at the bright side: The New Yorker still exists! And that’s more than we can say about a few Condé Nast titles. So as one of the lucky few — classics, even — it’s up to the former kings of the old guard to embrace technology and save everything. That means you, New Yorker!