Posted June 17, 2013, 8:15 AM by David Tom | Filed in The Web, Software
The internet is a gift; an extensive data sharing network that has enabled us to do so much good. It has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another, schedule events and vacations, manage our finances, and even receive an…
Posted June 11, 2013, 4:30 PM by Dave LeClair | Filed in Apple, Microsoft
While most web users think of Google as the go to search engine, Apple is putting its ball in Bing's court, at least as far as Siri is concerned. During Apple's keynote at WWDC, plenty of new iOS 7 features…
Posted May 30, 2013, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Google just unveiled a new feature that will deliver nutritional information via search results. Relevant results for more than 1,000 different fruits, veggies, meats and other foods are now at your disposal so you can quickly find out how many…
Posted May 23, 2013, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Google recently launched a new feature that’s part of Google Trends called Top Charts. As the name suggests, Top Charts is used to view a snapshot of the top searches across a plethora of topics ranging from actors and animals…
Posted May 22, 2013, 9:40 AM by Dave LeClair | Filed in The Web, Software
Google demonstrated conversational voice search last week at the I/O conference, and now, the company has rolled the exciting new feature out to Chrome browsers on desktop. Users looking for the alternate method of searching will have to update to version…
It’s been a long time coming but Google has finally brought its Google Now service to the iPhone and iPad. Arguably a more comprehensive alternative to Apple’s Siri, the personal assistant feature uses a natural language user interface to answer…
Google Now was first introduced last year as part of the Jelly Bean version of Android. Generally regarded as a more comprehensive alternative to Apple’s Siri, the popular personal assistant feature was largely expected to hit iOS devices and Chrome…
Posted April 17, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Google recently introduced a couple of optimizations designed to boost the speed and effectiveness of search over mobile. It is part of the search giant’s continued effort to improve mobile searches by tweaking results pages for users on the go.…
Posted April 8, 2013, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
Wikileaks has unveiled a newly searchable archive dubbed the "Public LIbrary of U.S. Diplomacy" or otherwise known as PlusD. The whistle-blowing organization hopes its efforts to sort, tag and analyze an enormous collection of more than two million U.S. documents…
Posted April 3, 2013, 6:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Microsoft is expected to discuss and possibly even release a public preview version of Windows Blue at its Build developer conference in San Francisco this June. But thanks to a couple of leaks we already have some ideas about what…
Posted March 13, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Google has acquired a small Canadian research company called DNNresearch. The three-person startup, specializing in object recognition, was founded within the University of Toronto’s computer science department according to Techvibes.
Last week Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller was quick to poke some fun at Android security, posting a link on Twitter to an F-Secure report that paints a dire -- if not overblown -- picture of the malware situation on…
Posted March 8, 2013, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Microsoft
University of New Mexico student Jeffrey Knockel claims to have revealed an encrypted list of 1,100+ keywords within China's Skype client, TOM-Skype. This list, containing words like "BBC" and phrases like "Democratic Unionist Party", are suspected to be used for…
Posted February 25, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Windows Blue, according to anonymous sources in touch with The Verge, is being targeted for an "aggressive" summer launch. The news outlet notes that Windows Blue just passed its "Milestone 1" build and says Win8China reported the first public preview…
Posted February 13, 2013, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
By making computers "think like a doctor", researchers at Indiana University claim their contextual "artificial intelligence" framework can one-up living medical professionals in terms of both cost and accuracy. Researchers indicate their approach could cut costs by more than half…
Posted January 21, 2013, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
The decision as to whether or not to block pirated movies and music from search results has been raging on for some time now. It is believed that Google received some 50 million link removal requests in 2012 – led…
Facebook being Facebook, it's no surprise we hear a variety of rumors regarding the company's future plans, especially more so since it became a public company last year. Two in particular: Facebook competing directly against Google in search and the…
Posted December 17, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Following a year-and-a-half long anti-trust investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google is expected to escape a final determination by the Federal Trade Commission thanks to the enactment of a number of "voluntary" measures -- a consent decree which…
Posted December 17, 2012, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
There used to be a time where one would only run the risk of contracting malware by installing questionable software on their computer. Those days are of course long behind us as it’s now possible to pick up an infection…
Posted December 13, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Google has implemented a new image search algorithm that now makes it much more difficult to find pornographic photos using the popular search engine, even with SafeSearch disabled. Google claims they are not censoring any adult content but there are…
Posted December 12, 2012, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The WebWith Video
Yesterday we shined the spotlight on some of the top tweets and trends on Twitter in the first of what is likely to be several Year in Review posts. Today Google released their 2012 Zeitgeist which highlights the year’s top…
Posted November 29, 2012, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Google is pretty much the go-to search engine for most people. They’ve done a fantastic job at narrowing down exactly what you are looking for based on your query (most of the time, anyway) but what about the things you…
Posted November 27, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Anyone who thinks Google's results are solely the product of fancy-pants algorithms and clever engineering -- think again. The Register has taken a look into Google's 160-page guidebook which is essentially a reference manual for human "raters" -- yep, that's…
Posted November 19, 2012, 10:09 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are reportedly in talks about how the two companies can work more closely together. The Telegraph notes the two have already collaborated on a number of small projects, and recently agreed…
Unfazed by the lukewarm reception its Google TV platform has seen so far, the search giant is moving ahead with its efforts to blend Internet entertainment with traditional television programming and conquer people’s living rooms. Today, the company announced a…
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