Monday marks the beginning of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, where the company will unveil its upcoming ventures in mobile devices, computers and all things Apple. The Cupertino, Calif-based company has just unveiled iOS6, the newest operating system update, which will run on its iPhone and iPad devices.

Tim Cook has just come off stage during the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference where it announced updated MacBook Air It also announced iOS 6 including a raft of new features including updates Siri to functionality, a new app called Passbook and much deeper Facebook integration. iOS 6 is available today in beta form for developers and will be available pubically in "the Fall" when we expect the iPhone 5 to be announced.

Apple has released a beta version to its iOS Developer Program members and the full iOS 6 will be available to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users this fall as a free software update.

Voice activated personal assistant Siri has been given an upgrade and the company has partnered with OpenTable and Rotten Tomatoes to provide better restaurant and movie information in Siri.

Apple also added in languages including Chinese, Italian, Korean and Spanish, which also puts it more in line with its S-Voice competitor. "We're now taking local search around the world," Apple's Scott Forstall said during the WWDC 2012 presentation.

Here's a list of what Apple's personalized digital assistant will have to offer with the upgrade:

1. Siri can launch third-party apps.
2. Siri can speak new languages.
3. Siri knows more about the world around you.
4. Siri knows sports.
5. Siri will come to the iPad.
6. Siri goes social.

iOS 6 has also updated its phone app. Users can ignore calls or texts at night using the Do Not Disturb feature or preset contacts to allow important people through based on who they are or if they have called you a set number of times trying to get through in quick succession.

Additionally, the new Passbook app is the simplest way to get items such as boarding passes and tickets together in the same place.Passbook also lets you scan your iPhone or iPod touch to use a coupon, get into a concert or check into your hotel.

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蘋果于北京時間6月12日凌晨1時在舊金山舉辦全球開發(fā)者大會(WWDC)，CEO蒂姆庫克首次發(fā)表主題演講，并發(fā)布了全新的MackBook Air、MacBook Pro、iOS 6系統(tǒng)、Mac OS X Mountain Lion系統(tǒng)等。

在移動系統(tǒng)端，蘋果全新的iOS 6系統(tǒng)正式與消費(fèi)者見面，支持設(shè)備包括3GS及以上iPhone、iPad 2、新iPad和iPod Touch 4。新系統(tǒng)加入了200余項(xiàng)新功能，而其中最為引人注意的應(yīng)該是Siri功能的移植。

蘋果CEO蒂姆庫克發(fā)表主題演講，介紹到Siri誕生雖然只有8個月的時間，但是已經(jīng)獲得了非常好的用戶基礎(chǔ)。同時Siri也在進(jìn)行不斷的升級，而這一次，Siri將登陸蘋果新iPad。

用戶可以通過升級后的Siri查詢更多信息，比如最新的比賽結(jié)果，勒布朗最近一場比賽得到多少分，或者附近有多少家餐館等。同時，另外一個好消息是Siri也即將支持除了英語之外的其他60個國家的語言，其中包括中國大陸、中國香港以及中國臺灣。

（本文中文內(nèi)容摘自新浪）