The innovation in the search technology is predominantly being done in the UI side. Will it really increase the user adoption? Emre Sokullu on ReadWriteWeb has this to say:
“ Like Quintura, Snap relies heavily on UI innovations. The problem with relying on UI innovation is that the barrier to entry is too low. The […]
Webyantra posted an interesting blog on Mapunity.
Mapunity is a Geographic Information System (GIS) solution. GIS is -
“In a more generic sense, GIS is a tool that allows users to create interactive queries (user created searches), analyze the spatial information, edit data, maps, and present the results of all these operations.”
There are couple of […]
Symantec and McAfee are working hard to beef up their mobile solutions.
McAfee announced solutions to screen mobile content. The news mentions:
“The service, called McAfee OK, works at the provider level and inspects all mobile content such as ring tones, images, video, and even applications that may be uploaded by subscribers onto the network.”
Similarly, […]
Nokia filed a new patent about semantic visual search engine. Om Malik reported this on GigaOM.
Nokia is already experimenting with mobile ads and it is interesting to see Google and Nokia competing in mobile space.
Talking about mobile ads, according to this article :
“A surprising 35 percent of adult cell phone users […]
Scobleizer has a very interesting post. It claims Apple is collaborating with Amazon,Google for a new device-iReader
The idea sounds quite romantic. The convenience of reading books, blogs and other articles from a mobile device is indeed fascinating. If the Scobleizer tip is right, it will give some serious competition to other mobile readers.
For me, […]
Google continues to surprise me. Google launched GMail Paper. You can order print outs of your emails (GMail emails) and Google will post the print outs to you for free! The paper is environmental friendly and the GMail Paper service costs nothing as the cost will be offset by the advertisements on the back.
“The cost […]
After Google validated the search engine market space, there are many new comers as I covered in my Smarter Search Engines post. KoolTorch is yet another candidate. KoolTorch claims - “KoolTorch is a next generation, patented technology that provides a USER FRIENDLY interface for viewing and navigating search results. ” I am not sure […]
Yahoo just announced number of enhancements to email service. Unlimited yahoo mailbox size is one of them. Rediff is also showing a cheap advertisements about offering unlimited email storage space. Here is the video ..
These unlimited mail storage space looks like a marketing ploy to me. How many of us actually use more than […]
I always thought that Fax machines, corporate scanners and printers can be security threats but never thought a photocopier is something that I should handle with care! Here is an interesting article - Photocopiers can be security threats
“Sharp, one of leading manufacturers of industrial photocopiers, issued a press release this week, just in time for […]
Google is synonymous to search. But does it really answer all your search queries? I have found better results on ask.com at times. It is supposed to have more natural language support. As a user, I do not really care what support or technology a search engine has or whether it gives me “googol” results! […]
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