Google Wave isn’t just the email we’d invent if email were invented today, as was Google’s goal. Wave is what news can be if we invent it today, as we must.
May
31
Without a doubt, the product that has the entire web buzzing right now is Google Wave , the search giant’s newly announced communication platform. Earlier this week, we brought you detailed information on the new Google product in our article Google Wave: A Complete Guide , but now we want to explore exactly why everyone is so excited about Google Wave. You’ve probably heard people talk about …
May
31
At this past week’s Google I/O event in San Francisco, Google brought a contraption it calls the “Holodeck,” for event-goers to experience. Basically, it’s a near-360 degree way to view Google Street View in fast motion, high definition video. Danny Sullivan posted a bunch of pictures of the thing earlier in the week. Unfortunately, Google only allows it to show the area at and around the actual …
May
31
Software giant Microsoft is set to launch Bing.com, a search engine with the aim to topple Google and Yahoo from the lucrative sector.
May
31
Features include concept maps, instant spreadsheets Google Inc. engineers have unveiled a series of features showing that online searches will soon begin to yield much more than a bland list of text-based answers.
May
31
Despite being a devotee of all things Google, I’ve been incredibly excited about Wolfram Alpha. I’ve been using it quite a bit and have its quirks and limitations pretty much down. Those limitations mean that it won’t be a Google killer, but it will be especially useful to students and teachers. Given that, I was more excited about Microsoft’s “decision engine,” Bing, than I have been about a …
May
31
FOR all the billions of dollars worth of surveillance technology directed at North Korea as it breathes fire this weekend, its closed society is so impervious to spying that diplomats in Asia are forced to admit that they might as well rely on Google Earth.
May
30
Google announced their forthcoming service known as Wave this week to widespread coverage in both the press and blogosphere. Created by many of the same team members that created the highly successful Google Maps, the preview of the service itself on Thursday was quite compelling, resulting in a rare standing…
May
30
Stephen Wolfram’s new knowledge engine, Wolfram Alpha goes live today, providing a new kind of search for Internet users. As a result, the Internets are alive with comments about how Alpha compares to Google. But that’s something you shouldn’t do. When I previously wrote about Wolfram Alpha , I described its potential as a “fact computer” and described how it intelligently trawls through a vast …
May
30
The European Union joins other jurisdictions in scrutinizing Google’s plan to make the content of millions of books available online.