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Apple's big TV plans maybe might include Siri integration, but a recent survey suggests that bot-controlled television is not something people would want or use. "Only 37% of 4S owners said they definitely wanted voice-commands on their television set, while 20% said they did not want them there," writes The Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro, citing a survey done by the consulting group Parks Associates. Asking 482 iPhone 4S users how they employ their bots, the survey found that humanity hasn't embraced that kind of robot-enabled future yet.

What do people use Siri for? Pretty standard phone-ish things, so far. A third of those surveyed use the iAssistant to make phone calls and send text messages, making those the most popular activities. But other than that, Siri doesn't get much play. Over a third of those surveyed never used the voice-activiation to play music or schedule meetings.

Siri users aren't that adventurous with their phones, which might explain the lack of enthusiasm for Siri-TV. There's something about talking to a phone that feels dumb even though users have had about six months to get used to the bot. It no longer feels weird to ask Siri to type out a text or make a call. But, taking it to that next activity control level, however, still feels strange since you're still having a conversation with an inanimate object.It reminds us of this favorite anecdote from a New York Times commenter, discussing the absurdity of Siri phone etiquette. "On the morning of Thanksgiving, I saw a lone Williamsburg hipster on a deserted street telling his phone, with increasing insistence and volume, 'I'm hungry,'" wrote Josh K.

Plus, Siri's not reliable enough for us to put our entire television watching experience in her hands. "Some 55% of 4S users said they were satisfied with Siri, 9% were unsatisfied, and the rest were somewhere in between," writes WSJ's Vascellaro. That's not quitethe hype the bot once had when the iPhone 4S came out. This might have to do with the various glitches Siri has had since its debut, including a mass outage in November, itsinability to understand accents and the general inability to understand commands because of noise or mumbling. That noise part especially has TV-watchers nervous. "When watching TV there is so much background noise," John Barrett, director of consumer analytics at Parks Associates told Vascellaro. Reliability is an important function for TV remote controls -- we get that horrible stomach-sinking feeling when the batteries die, for example. Imagine if Siri just stopped responding during a TV watching session. Suddenly, going back to channel surfing on a remote would feel as archaic and annoying as walking up to the TV and switching the dial.

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Internet gambling is increasing in terms of the amount being spent and the number of people involved.

THE comforts of home and anonymity are luring growing numbers to internet gambling, say academics at Southern Cross University after undertaking Australia's biggest study into the latest betting trend.

All the evidence suggests that internet gambling is increasing in terms of the amount being spent and the number of people involved, and it doesn't look like slowing down, said Sally Gainsbury from the university's Centre for Gambling Education & Research.

A report she published last week with researchers from Sydney University surveyed 6682 internet gamblers to learn more about their behaviour.

The attractions of internet gambling include not having to leave the house or drive anywhere, 24-hour availability, convenience, lack of crowds and unpleasant people.

The main perceived disadvantages of internet gambling were that it is too convenient and that it is easier to spend more money at home where there are no limits applied to credit card use.

The study also showed that internet gamblers participate in a greater variety of gambling formats and are more frequently involved in gambling.

"This could indicate that consumers are adding internet gambling to an existing repertoire of gambling, or conversely, that internet gambling is facilitating a higher frequency of gambling given the high accessibility and convenience of this medium," Ms Gainsbury said. "It is likely that both causal pathways exist".

Understanding the impact of this new mode of gambling on existing and new players was an important contribution to the appropriate regulation of the activity, Ms Gainsbury said.

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The Internet Society, a nonprofit that operates the .org registry and funds Internet standards development work, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a gala event in Geneva next month.

ISOC is dedicated to the idea that the Internet should be a decentralised platform for innovation that is open to all people around the globe. ISOC sponsors the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a standards-setting body, as well as the Internet Architecture Board, which provides technical advice to policymakers. With 120 corporate members, 100 chapters and nearly 60,000 individual members, ISOC is a powerful advocate for transparent, self-governing process for developing the technical underpinnings of the Internet.

We spoke with Lynn St. Amour (pictured), president and CEO of ISOC, about the group's biggest successes over the last 20 years and the challenges it faces in the future. Here are excerpts from our conversation:

The date of incorporation was in early January 1992. It basically came out of work that Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn [inventors of the Internet Protocol] were doing to create a charter statement for the organization.

We're having a year-long celebration. On our website, we have a feature called "The Wishing Tree" where we are collecting people's wishes for the Internet. We're also launching an Internet Hall of Fame at the INET conference in April. We'll be announcing three categories of winners. One category is pioneers, who are the people who were there at the dawn of the Internet. Another one is for global connectors, those people who have done extraordinary things to bring the Internet to other communities, in some cases developing countries and in other cases new applications. Then we have a third category that is innovators. We'll be making the announcement of our first inductees at the global INET conference in Geneva, where we will have a gala awards dinner. Global INET will be a celebration, where we have past trustees and luminaries such as Leonard Kleinrock coming to speak. We also have Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf. INET is April 23 to 24. The gala is the 23rd.

We're stronger than we've ever been. We are very happy to continue supporting the IETF in a way that's given them autonomy for all of their activities. We're able to do that because ISOC bid to run the .org registry 10 years ago. The Public Interest Registry (PIR) is the supporting entity for ISOC to run .org. The .org income allows us to do an awful lot more in terms of development activities around the world. We do a lot with Internet exchange points and grants, where $5,000 or $10,000 can make a tremendous difference in a whole community. We're financially stable. This year our budget is $35 million, with 80 percent from PIR and .org registrations across the world. The rest is from our members, various IETF events and other grants. We have offices in 14 countries, with our two main offices being in Geneva and just outside Washington, D.C., in Virginia. We will have 80 employees at the end of this year.

One is our support for the IETF and enabling the IETF to maintain its culture, processes and autonomy. I think that's been a great partnership, and it's one of the things we are most proud of. Another is our policy activities. In virtually every significant body that has to do with Internet policy, we are either a member or we have special standing that allows us access to meetings and presentations. That's really come along in the last four to five years. We're extremely happy and proud of that. Lastly, the Internet is successful because of its distributed nature. We're trying to mirror that in our organisation. Five or six years ago, we launched our first regional bureau. Now we have five regional bureaus in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia Pacific and North America. This allows us to build our staff and build much stronger relationships with all the regional players, whether they are policymakers or large, commercial companies. Our third major accomplishment would be our ability to distribute our engagement to a broad global reach.

Scale. There are over 260 countries in the world, and a lot of policy activity going on. Our ability to help people understand the Internet environment in a way that they can establish policy and regulate that environment in a way that's best for their citizens and best for the Internet is a pretty daunting task. We'd like to be more proactive, but often we find ourselves trying to step in and explain why we believe something is inappropriate.

ISOC is a major contributor to the IETF. Do you think the IETF is as relevant as it once was? Vendors tell me regularly that they are frustrated with the slow pace at which the IETF is able to create RFCs.

The IETF has always been the premier standards body for the Internet, and I think that is still true. As the Internet has grown, the number of applications has grown and the complexity of the environment has grown. It does take longer to develop and test a standard. I believe strongly that the IETF way of developing standards is the most appropriate. There is no other comparable body where you can openly debate and deliver standards.

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