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Wolfram Alpha unveils Pro service
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The data-crunching site unveils a premium service that allows users to upload data, photos and sounds for analysis....
Apple’s Siri Drives 25 Percent Of Wolfram|Alpha Queries
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Yesterday knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha announced an intriguing new paid service Wolfram|Alpha Pro. Gary Price wrote an overview of the new service, which will likely appeal to academics, data geeks and a range of other specialized users. Wolfram|Alpha is by no means a mainstream... Please visit Search Engine Land for the...
Wolfram|Alpha Goes Pro With Powerful Data Analysis & Presentation Tools
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Wolfram|Alpha (W|A) is launching a new fee-based service named Wolfram|Alpha Pro. In today’s highly competitive environment, you may wonder why a W|A would ask people to pay for what many think should be free. Read on: you may decide to willingly open your wallet when you... Please visit Search Engine...
Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service
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On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, "Pro" option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), the new services includes the ability to use images, files, and even your own data as inputs instead of simple...
Siri accounts for 1/4 of Wolfram Alpha queries as search engine goes 'Pro'
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About one quarter of the queries to the "computational knowledge engine" Wolfram Alpha now come from the Siri voice assistant found in Apple's iPhone 4S....
Google Gets Scientific, Adds A Voice-Enabled 34-Button Calculator To Desktop And Mobile Search
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Oh Google. Sometimes you’re so awesome. Google search has long featured a built-in calculator function but a recent update added a fully functional 34-button scientific calculator. Previously, when a user entered, say, 2+2, Google would simply display the sum above the search result. Now, when that equation is entered into...
Wolfram Alpha now does literary analysis, breaks down the Bard's work
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Literary geeks rejoice! Wolfram Alpha has given you the tools to examine the works of William Shakespeare in ways you've never cared to imagined. Ever wondered how many words are in the second act of Othello? Or what the longest word is in A Midsummer Night's Dream? The answers...
Siri Caught Recommending The Nokia Lumia, Promptly Reprogrammed
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The Apple marketing machine has always thrived on organic media buzz. Devices like the iPad launch to such massive anticipation that whole TV news segments turn into commercials for the product, then hand off to on-the-scene reporters covering the line outside the Apple store, without the company paying a dime....
Nokia accuses Apple of “overriding” Siri to remove Lumia 900 endorsement
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Nokia has accused Apple of overriding the settings of Siri, after its virtual personal assistant was found to have stopped endorsing the Nokia Lumia 900 phone. As we reported last week, when asked ‘What is the best smartphone ever’, Siri recommends the new Nokia phone, built on Microsoft’s Windows Phone...
Wolfram Alpha Pro is "Freemium" Done Right
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Wolfram Alpha isn't the "Google killer" that many hyped it up to be prior to its 2009 launch. Instead, the self-described computational knowledge engine takes a completely different approach to letting users find and analyze information. Rather than scouring the Web and ranking everybody's pages in the order it thinks...
Amazon’s Appstore For Android Turns One: 31K Apps, Millions Sold
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This morning, Amazon announced its mobile app marketplace, the Amazon Appstore for Android, is celebrating its first birthday today with a week-long sale on some of its most popular apps. The company also took the time to share some figures about the Appstore’s growth over the past year, including the...
Siri currently accounts for 25 percent of all Wolfram Alpha searches
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Search service Wolfram Alpha has been in the news this week thanks to tomorrow's launch of Wolfram Alpha Pro, and hidden in a New York Times profile are some details about Siri's impact on the service. Queries originating from the iPhone 4S "digital assistant" now make up about 25...
Apple airs two new iPhone 4S TV ads all about Siri
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Apple has aired two new television commercials about the iPhone 4S headline feature, Siri. The first new ad, displayed above, focuses on Siri’s integration with the Yelp, Maps, location, and direction services, while the second ad, embedded after the break, focuses on on how Siri can help you with...
Siri accounts for one-quarter of all Wolfram Alpha searches
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Thanks to Apple’s deal with Wolfram Alpha with Siri, the intelligent voice assistant now accounts for 25 percent of the computational search engine’s traffic....
Boot up: Halliburton ditches BlackBerry for iPhone, Wolfram Alpha to launch Pro search, and more
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Plus what an apparently ex-Zynga employee is saying over at Reddit (and it's not pretty)A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamHalliburton to ditch BlackBerrys in corporate transition to Apple's iOS platform >> Apple Insider "Over the next year, we will...
Apple patches Siri, no longer says Lumia 900 is 'best smartphone ever'
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We all know the Siri says some funny things, but it looks like Apple wasn't a fan of the automated assistant's response to the question "What is the best smartphone ever?" The Next Web spotted that the assistant offered up the Lumia 900 as an answer to the question...
Wolfram Alpha in-app purchase for iOS adds advanced image processing capabilities
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Version 1.4 of Wolfram Alpha has just landed in Apple's App Store, and in addition to a visual refresh for weather queries and the ability to procure items from Best Buy, users will also discover a new in-app purchase option that brings image analysis and manipulation to the venerable...
To Compute or Not to Compute—Wolfram|Alpha Analyzes Shakespeare’s Plays
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For hundreds of years, scholars have carefully studied the plays of Shakespeare, breaking down the language and carefully dissecting every act and scene. We thought it would be interesting to see what sorts of computational insights Wolfram|Alpha could provide, so we uploaded the complete catalog of Shakespeare’s plays into our...
Amazon Appstore for Android celebrates a year of life, deals for a week
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Whatever Google can do, Amazon can do... too? Sure seems it, as the latter is celebrating a rather momentous occasion by giving back to the people that have brought it this far: you (and you, and you!). The Amazon Appstore for Android has officially been alive and kicking for...
87% of iPhone 4S Owners Use Siri Each Month
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Apple has been prominently featuring Siri, the voice recognition feature, in its iPhone 4S advertising. And, for a good reason: it's apparently very popular amongst iPhone 4S owners. 87 percent of iPhone 4S users use at least one Siri feature each month, according to a new study. However, they aren't...
Wolfram|Alpha Pro launching this week
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Wolfram|Alpha’s founder explains the next big step in the evolution of the “knowledge engine,” which is touted to enable users to dig deeper than ever into its vast library and personalize their experiences....
Wolfram Alpha's computational knowledge engine's the thing
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Wolfram Alpha, a search engine that uses dynamic algorithms to return knowledge-based results rather than keyword-based results announced today that it has uploaded the entirety of Shakespeare's works to the site's database, so users can search the Bard's canon for facts about the texts. The fully-searchable breakdown of various...
Siri now source for quarter of all Wolfram Alpha queries
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Siri now represents about a quarter of all the queries submitted to Wolfram Alpha, says the New York Times. The Siri technology is an integral feature of the iPhone 4S firmware, and aside from direct voice commands, allows asking plain-language questions about various facts and figures. A Wolfram Alpha widget...
Wolfram Alpha now lets you analyze Shakespeare’s plays
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Wolfram|Alpha now lets you analyze Shakespeare’s plays and other famous works of literature, such as Moby Dick and Great Expectations, the computational knowledge engine announced on its blog today. Besides general information on each book, the results also include advanced details, which can be broken down as you want. For...
Wolfram Alpha Launches Its First Desktop App
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Wolfram Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine,” just launched a desktop app for Windows 7 PCs through Intel’s AppUp store. After launching numerous iOS and Android apps (including for the B&N Nook and Amazon’s Kindle Fire), this is the first time Wolfram Alpha is introducing a dedicated desktop app for its...
Why Siri’s first new feature could be giving you ESPN sports scores
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In the days after Apple launched its Siri voice assistant on the iPhone 4S, the talk inevitably turned to when when it would be opened up to developers to play with. There has been no API yet, but Siri did actually launch with some partners, including Yelp and Wolfram Alpha....
Wolfram Alpha now available as a $2.99 PC app
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Wolfram Alpha already offers its brand of computational knowledge in the form of a mobile app, and now it's available on the PC as well. The company has partnered up with Intel to offer the app through the AppUp market, where it's available now for $2.99, the same price...
Wolfram Alpha releases first desktop PC app for Windows 7, makes homework even easier
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Have a habit of letting Wolfram Alpha do your math for you? Well, say hello to one more tool in your computational arsenal -- the electronic homework lackey self-described knowledge engine is now available as a Windows 7 desktop app for $2.99 at the Intel AppUp store. In addition...
Wolfram|Alpha Puts 300 Hand-Drawn Query Icons On Its New Homepage
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Here’s something you don’t see every day: hand-drawn artwork turned into search queries. Wolfram|Alpha has rolled out a new home page that features nearly 300 icons surrounding the traditional search box. The company says each icon is hand-drawn and represents an “interactive... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full...
Bing challenges Google’s Knowledge Graph with new Britannica Encyclopedia partnership
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Following the introduction of Google’s Knowledge Graph last month, Bing now appears to be building up its own knowledge repository by tapping the well known, but perhaps antiquated Britannica Online Encyclopedia. The partnership, which starts today, brings in new results for users right on the search page — keeping searchers from...
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