Category: Japan

Apple’s Tim Cook has announced that Siri will be available in Japanese and will be rolling out the software within the coming weeks.  Siri allows users to control their iPhones with a series of voice commands getting information and instructions from the device.  While Apple has rolled out the typical Germanic languages and romance languages, this will be the first of the asianic languages available on the iPhone 4S.

Apple Japan is trying to get the students on board as they get ready to start school in April.  Japan is one of the few countries where the students start school in April instead of September.   From 14 February until 22 May, students and educators can get a Mac App Store card with the purchase of a machine.  The card with a face value of ¥10,000 JPY is in addition to the normal academic discount.  According to Apple’s website, it…

Mac お宝(otakara) is now saying that there are two events scheduled by Apple.  The first event which they were saying was for Apple’s iPad 3 announcement apparently has been pushed back to March.  The first event supposedly in February is yet unknown.  Mac お宝 is saying that the event would be “a Strange Event”.   Speculation by some of the posters on the site and others says that the February event might be scheduled to coincide with Steve Jobs birthday which…