InQuira Antecedents: Answerfriend and Electric Knowledge

Source: Beyond Search

I have had to look up the antecedents for InQuira again. I wanted to create this post to make it easy to reference these two firms which were combined to create InQuira. InQuira was acquired by Oracle Corp. in that ...
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Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s S-Voice go head to head (video)

Source: iPhone Download Blog

The Verge was first out of the gate today with its exhaustive review of Samsung’s Galaxy S III handset. A section of the piece provides an interesting side-by-side comparison of two intelligent personal assistants, Siri on the iPhone 4S and Samsun ...
Full article at: iPhone Download Blog  More like this  21 hours ago, 5:58pm CDT

5 Reasons "Big Data" Is a Big Deal

Source: Mobiledia

Big data refers to the analytic algorithms applied to vast amounts of data across several different places, or simply the math and computer formulas used to sift through massive amounts of data and analyze the re ...
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SXSW Social Winner Thirst Makes Twitter More Beautiful

Source: Tech Cocktail

Success seems to hinge on this question for Thirst, winner of the SXSW Accelerator in social media and social networking. Thirst uses natural language processing to group together tweets around specific topics – like the election or the Facebook ...
Full article at: Tech Cocktail  More like this  1 day ago, 12:24pm CDT

Memo to Apple: Siri's Charms Fading Fast

Source: TechWeb

Alas, Siri, to quote the late, great Frank Zappa: "Our affair was quite heated, I thought you were what I needed, but the time has come, my darlin', to set things right." Poor performance and architecture, iffy privacy, and stiffer competition ...
Full article at: TechWeb  More like this  1 day ago, 8:59am CDT

Memorial Day 2012: Big Holiday Weekend = Big Spending Weekend

Source: Time Magazine

A new study analyzing comments on social media reveals something interesting about Americans’ plans for the big Memorial Day holiday weekend: Most of us seem to be planning on opening our wallets, big time. Wh ...
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Celebros and Redstage Networks Partner To Bring Cutting Edge...

Source: PRWeb

A brilliant system like ConversionProV8 that simultaneously improves user experience and instantly improves the bottom line is a no brainer for any Magento customer. Adam Morris, CEO of Redstage Networks Celebros Inc., the global leader in sit ...
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IBM Knows What You’re Doing This Memorial Day Weekend [Infographic]

Source: PSFK

IBM has conducted an analysis of social media sentiment and says that Americans seem to be “increasingly upbeat” about their plans for the Memorial Day weekend. The tech giant says that there is a huge increase this year in the amount of people ...
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Baidu: We Do Semantic Search Better Than Google

Source: Search Engine Watch - Blog

Google unveiled its Knowledge Graph recently, which it coined the "first step in the next generation of search.",While it makes its way to my part of the world (Hong Kong), Baidu is claiming this is not new as the Chinese search gian ...
Full article at: Search Engine Watch - Blog  More like this  1 day ago, 4:33am CDT