Siri Timeline: The Story So Far

March 2012

• Mar. 7: No Siri on iPad 3
• Mar. 3: Rumors that Google will call its voice assistant “Assistant” and that the product will be released in Q4, 2012
• Mar. 2: Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) UK ruling in favor of Apple

February 2012

• Feb. 29: Controversy over Siri not working in UK as advertised (business search)
• Feb. 28: Apple clarifies publicly that Voice Assistants are fair game and that they will work with Evi team
• Feb. 27: Rumors that Apple is removing Evi from App Store
• Feb. 24: Mercedes Benz announces integration with Siri
• Feb. 20: ABC News Foxconn Report about Apple Factories
• Feb. 21. MyAssistant Siri jailbreak
• Feb. 18: Utter on Android
• Feb. 17: No Siri on Mountain Lion OS
• Feb. 11: Apple files for preliminary injunction against Google Galaxy Nexus
• Feb. 8: 25% of Wolfram traffic comes via Siri

January 2012

• Jan. 24: Evi arrives in Apple Appstore and Gogle Markerplace
• Jan. 20: Steve Wozniak “prefers” Androids
• Jan. 4: Siri mentioned in TV Show Big Bang Theory
• Jan. 2: AskZiggy comes out on MSFT Store

December 2011

• Dec. 20: Best Buy catalogue accessible via Wolfram on Siri
• Dec. 20: Nuance buys vLingo
• Dec. 18: Santa video hits the air
• Dec. 14: Google buys Clever Sense — developer of Alfred Assistant App
• Dec. 13: Rumors of Google Majel start circulating
• Dec. 7: Apple hiring aggressively to fix Siri issues
• Dec. 2: Thousands petition Apple on Abortion issue

November 2011

• Nov. 30: Abortion controversy
• Nov. 24: Siri Proxy to start a car
• Nov. 23: Microsoft claims they had Siri like technology a year ago
• Nov. 21: Siri Proxy control of thermostat
• Nov. 17: Robin Williams Siri video
• Nov. 16: Husband and wife Siri video
• Nov. 15: Siri Protocol hacked by Applidium
• Nov. 10: Man behing Siri UK voice revealed
• Nov. 9: Reports that Amazon bought Yap
• Nov. 8. Video of Siri ported to iPhone 3GS
• Nov. 6: Google Eric Schmidt admits that Siri is a threat to Google model
• Nov. 6: Rumors that Apple will release Siri on iPhone 4
• Nov. 4: First major Siri Outage

October 2011

• Oct. 14: iPhone 4S hits US market.
• Oct. 5: Steve Jobs passes away
• Oct. 4: Arrival of iPhone 4S and Siri Announced

April 2010

• Apple acquires Siri, Inc. from SRI

February 2010

• Siri, Inc. launches its Virtual personal Assistant app for the iPhone 3GS

November 2009

• Siri, Inc. raises a $15.5 million Series B financing round from the same investors as in their previous round plus Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing

October 2008

• Siri, Inc. announces it has raised an $8.5 million Series A financing round, led by Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures

December 2007

• SRI spins off Siri, Inc. to bring the technology to consumers

July 2003

• DARPA Selects SRI to lead the Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) Program. SRI and a team of 20 leading research organizations are awarded $22M over five years to develop software, dubbed CALO to revolutionize how computers support military and other decision-makers. It is considered to be the largest artificial intelligence project in history