Wolfram Alpha- student’s antidote for homework! The newly-launched “knowledge engine” was created and developed by Wolfram Research. The service is named after Stephen Wolfram, a British physicist who played a major part in the building of the engine and in announcing it publically. The service itself is a student’s dream. Unlike Google, which lists...
For the first time, Google have decided to promote their web browser “Google Chrome” on TV adverts instead of the conventional internet based advertising and other organic growing techniques. Channel ads have already spread throughout the web, via Google’s own services, such as YouTube, as well as social networks like Linked-In. Google Japan has...
The Wolfram Alpha search engine will be launched this month, and it could possibly revolutionise the web. It is not the regular run-of-the-mill search engine, it is a new system of software which will be able to understand questions and then provide tailored answers. This will be the first search engine of its kind...
Search engine giant Google has emerged as the world’s biggest brand. Google is now worth almost 25% more than Microsoft, crossing the $100 billion (£68 billion) value mark, according to the fourth annual BrandZ top 100 most valuable global brands ranking. Despite the tough economic climate, Google’s label value has rose 16% in a...
How times fly by, Geocities was the 3rd biggest site but over time, has deteriorated. Yahoo have publicly announced that it will shut down Geocities service in the Summer, which it paid a staggering $4 billion for over a decade ago. However, Yahoo urge geocities customers to move to another free service, “Yahoo! Web...
Google, who recently announced their impressive turnover, on Tuesday unveiled an interesting piece of software, O3D to bring accelerated 3D graphics to browsers, though it seems not to be the first time a company has tried to make one of these 3D web applications utulizing the advantages of the PC games played nowadays. The...
The two giants will have to think hard to come up with an appropriate name for the business. Just today, Virgin Media publically announced it will provide better email services for a breath-taking four million home broadband customers, with the aid of their new partnership established with Google. What will they recieve, I hear...
First meaningful act towards making a new deal after last year’s antics where Yahoo walked away from Microsoft’s uninviting buyout opportunity. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met up and discussed matters on search and advertising partnerships. Though, it is still not obvious whether agreements with each of the companies will go...
Futuristic Design attracts much attention FriendFeed offers a different kind of service to its customers. As well as posting updates like Twitter and Facebook allow you to do, it also is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from other micro-blogging services. People do not really pay much attention to FriendFeed until now even though it...