Computers that simply do the sames things faster and faster are becoming boring. Been there, done that. But a device that can detect and interpret your emotions? Or intelligently organize a meeting, knowing that one of the participants is jogging at the time? That’s a more interesting proposition. Intel, perhaps surprisingly, is working on...
Rebranding itself from Everything Everywhere to EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator today launched its new superfast 4G network. Sitting alongside Orange and T-Mobile, the company’s existing brands, the new network will be available in 16 cities by the end of the year. EE confirmed it will be offering a small range of 4G-enabled...
Even as Qihoo 360 is in the midst of a bitter feud with Chinese search engine leader Baidu, CEO Zhou Hongyi has promised not to enter the instant messaging market. The executive offered the guarantee while onstage with Tencent CEO Pony Ma at the China Internet Conference, as noted by TechWeb (translation). He told...
Technology and real-time data are becoming two hugely important areas for almost any industry, as worldwide communication continues to evolve, and the financial services space is one where access to details and information is crucial. San Francisco-based Datasift is aiming to be the company that brings a real-time social feed to the industry, and...
The day before Apple is set to unveil its new iPhone, Google has released a standalone app that will replace the stock YouTube app that has been removed from iOS 6. Google announced the release on its official blog early Tuesday. The company touted the apps’ channel guide, instant search recommendations and options to share to...
YouTube just went live with its own iOS app, bringing advanced features like social sharing, access to the site’s channel guide as well as tens of thousands of previously unavailable music videos to the iPhone. The application replaces a system app developed by Apple that won’t be part of iOS 6. It is optimized...
Last month, news broke that the YouTube iOS app — which had been pre-loaded on all iPhones since their launch — would be taken off the mobile device with the launch of iOS6. And at the time we noted that YouTube would be coming out with a replacement soon — and when it did,...
If you’re even a casual gamer, you know that video game systems and platforms have come a long way in the past twenty years. I’m old, so I remember rockin’ out to the Atari 2600, enjoying each and every pixel that passed by on my little TV. Those days are over, and video game...
I’m on the hunt for five great tools to filter the social Web. The fourth product I’m looking at is Bottlenose, a social media dashboard that allows you to filter content by topic. For example: Andy Murray winning his first Grand Slam tennis title today. Bottlenose was founded by well-regarded Semantic Web geek Nova...