Siri has launched with the new iPhone 4S in a frenzy of artificial intelligence excitement. But Courtney Sit has unearthed a rival and, as she explains, it isn't half bad.

In this week's NZ Tech podcast, the team talks about a local Robotics contest taking place here in Auckland, new Amazon Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Fire tablet and other tech stories

Happy 4th of July to our American readers! Let's get into this week's top news - a little late today as we've been all hands on deck for the soft launch of our new consultants page

Will Facebook surpass Google in advertising revenue? Not if they don't refine their relevant advertisement matching, writes Michael Moore-Jones.

After a needed holiday in Thailand, Katie is back. This week we looked at Microsoft buying their mojo back, Facebook got caught red handed in a PR disaster, Twitpic users are outraged about the recent Twitpic copyright terms and conditions and like always this week's simply genius segment we looked at The Oona

Yesterday an NBR article reported the touchdown of (another) major daily deals site, Groupon, in our market. These guys are huge, currently ranked by Forbes as the fastest rising web company in the world. Ever. Does this signal the end of the new-deals-site-every-week glut we've been seeing?

In this episode we look at the Godaddy's controversy viral video which saw the brand took a negative hit, Google makes searching more relevant with their +1 product and we look at Westpac's Impulse saver as this week's simply genius product.

The +1 may appear to be a simple competitor to Facebook, but the concept and design is similar to the glory days of Digg. Google, using their position as the gateway to the internet, has done something smart here. +1 is essentially making the web more personal for all of us

Daylight savings is upon us which means winter boarding season is just around the corner. But before you update your snow report app, check out what's been going on this week in the world of SMNZ.

We saw Google announce Kansas City as the first recipient of their 1GB Fiber-network initiative this week. It's hard to fathom how fast it's going to be and what economy-boosting commercial opportunities such high speed data moving could present. But compare it to New Zealand's current stats and you start to get an overall picture of what a sad a state of affairs our broadband is in.

Keep up-to-date with all the happenings at this year's South by South West with The Guardian UK using the power that is Storify

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