A Wolfram the search engine to take on Google? Not quite, but it sure seems handy…. WolframAlpha is a new search engine dreamed up by British-born physics genius Stephen Worfram, who earned a Ph.D by the time he was 20 years old. So what sets this engine apart from Google,…
Google blames rerouting mistake on world blackout Millions of people who use Google were thrown into a loop yesterday when the search engine went off line due to an error with traffic routing. Affected by the outage was several services including Youtube, Gmail and Google News Australia “An error in…
Greece decides that Google Street View is an intrusion on people’s private lives After a recently well publicised incident in Britain where angry residents of the village of Broughton in Buckinghamshire, tried to stop a Google Street View car from taking pictures, a government body in Greece has gone one…
2009 could be the year of the Google phone, says a well-placed research company A report out of the US by research company, Strategy Analytics, states that Android smartphone shipments will grow a whopping 900 percent in 2009. Strategy Analytics believes support from operators, vendors and developers is driving the…
…things that are missing. For a start, how many of those hits were unintentional (who hasn’t accidentally been directed to a porn site after doing a Google search on some totally unrelated manner?). There is no qualitative reasoning as to why people have visited these sites – social workers doing…
…Windows Mobile by adding “new software capabilities”, and will also likely include Windows Marketplace for Mobile – Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market.” With a lot of mobile manufacturers looking at Google’s Android O/S, would anybody be that surprised if Microsoft decided to bring its own…
…will have a 3.5mm headphone jack. It will have integration with Google Web services, including Google Maps, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. It comes with Wi-Fi, EDGE, and 3G capabilities that can get up to 7.2-Mbps downlink speed. Updates can be had from the Android Market website, which is…
…on their computer, and they can also view the House Rules they established with their parents at any time. Understand Their Intent – Parents can view search words and phrases a child searches on sites like Google, YouTube and Wikipedia, and where they lead the child online. This feature also…
A Japanese set-top box utilising Google Android’s OS shows what’s in store for the gadget market Well, it may not be available in Australia – in fact it might never come here – but the Motorola au Box set top box has something that other set top boxes don’t have…
…Service which includes Google search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube and Google Blogs. A-GPS and geo-tagging are also possible. ARENA’s multi-touch capabilities enhance the web surfing experience. All of these features are packed in ARENA’s sleek and refined metal body, sized to grab and go at 105.9 x 55.3 x 11.95…
Google’s mail carrier comes of age in a time of change At a time when trends are as fleeting as Diego Maradona’s coaching skills, it’s interesting to see that an online entity like gmail has been around for five years, with it celebrating its fifth birthday recently. With a growth…
…had a brand new viewing mode, designed for those who like standing on their heads or turning their screens upside down, because Google’s “internal tests have shown that modern computer monitors offer better picture quality when flipped upside-down.” 7) Google’s April Fool involved Gmail Autopilot, which was said to help…