As Google aims to expand search's ability to answer increasingly difficult questions based on contextual information, several key obstacles still stand in its way. Knowledge Graph, a feature designed to put users' searches in context and ...
Facebook's Graph Search could be a powerful tool for steering people toward products and services on the social networking site, and marketers are starting to wrestle with the impact it may have on their brands. Graph Search allows users ...
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Facebook's redesigned News Feed may help keep users flooded with information from quitting the social network. "I think people have just been tiring of Facebook and all the irrelevant stuff on their News Feed blocking out the stuff ...
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Home automation has come to the iPhone with sophisticated tools that let you automatically turn lights on at sunset, receive a text if the front door opens at night, or turn on airconditioning when your cat goes to the litter. This ...
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No Microsoft browser rival would comment on, much less confirm, that it reported the omission of the browser ballot to European antitrust regulators. All three of Microsoft's Windows browser competitors -- Google, Mozilla and Opera ...
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Brooklyn-based Sprezzat wants to modernize caller ID for people's smartphones with a little help from Twitter and Facebook. This week the company launched Thread for Android, a mobile app designed to display recent activity on Twitter and ...
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Recent reports from antivirus companies seem to suggest that the number of Android malware threats is growing. However, there are still many skeptics who say the extent of the problem is exaggerated. The security industry has an ...
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A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a record $480,000 over two days. The update to ...
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The Android operating system has been cleared of patent infringement in a case brought by Nokia against Android smartphone maker HTC. Nokia on Friday lost two patent suits it brought against HTC in the District Court of Mannheim, Germany, ...
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Motorola Mobility is cutting 1,200 jobs, in addition to a reduction of 4,000 jobs it announced in August, to focus on high-end devices. "These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer," said Motorola spokeswoman ...
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Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 is a video compression technology ...
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More companies are complaining of unfair competition from Amazon Web Services (AWS), suggesting that Amazon has created AWS-based services similar to their own, pricing them aggressively in a bid to win market share. The claims come less ...
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When it came time to put our 2012 Kia Sportage on the block, a prospective buyer noticed a tear, about an inch long, in the driver's-side rear seat. The hole was definitely something that detracted from the vehicle's looks and value. We had ...
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Google fiber project brings Kansas City Gigabit network speed, but the FCC is not satisfied with it. FCC Chairman Julius Genachoski Gigabit officially announced an “urban deployment plan”, planing that all 50 states can enjoy ...
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The Federal Communications Commission remains focused on rapidly expanding spectrum for licensed and unlicensed use, and encouraging both research and products that will let it be used more efficiently, according to the commission's boss. ...