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Google to Launch Chrome Operating System, Competes with Microsoft
Google is branching out from its domination in the online search market into the realm of operating system software. They’ll be going head-to-head with OS giant and pioneer, Microsoft. Microsoft has long been lagging in the search market to both Yahoo and Google, but has maintained a legal monopoly, of sorts, on the OS market around the world.
In keeping with their typical product style, Google is setting out to revolutionize the standard operating system model as we know it with the launch of their Google Chrome OS. They plan to incorporate web into the operating system and make it much faster than Windows, all the while keeping it somewhat open-source, allowing outside developers to contribute to it by fixing bugs and adding features that will enhance its operation.
Google certainly isn’t the first to try and take a crack at Microsoft’s Windows monopoly. But where others have failed, I believe Google may succeed. They have a lot of money and talent to throw at their OS, and with the largest base of loyal web followers in the world, it might just catch on. Does it have what it takes to go mainstream and replace Windows as the dominant OS? We’ll have to anxiously wait until the beta version to find out!
Continue ReadingWolfram Alpha Search Engine – The Next Google Killer?
Many, many search engines have sprouted up over the years, each with their own little quirky feature that sets to distinguish themselves from Google. Many of them are touted as “Google killers” – meaning they’re so hip and/or effective that they’ll quickly take market share away from Google’s core business – search.
Wolfram Alpha is getting the same hype. But is it for real this time? Personally, I don’t think so. Though WA offers a very interesting way to search, and arguably, goes even beyond search with its mathematic abilities, it’s doubtful that it will topple the search engine giant.
What’s the distinguishing feature of Wolfram Alpha? Well, its mission is to “make systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone”. Allow me to decipher: Basically, what they’re saying is that Wolfram Alpha sets out to be a calculator, an encyclopedia, an historical archive and a search engine all in one. For example, typing in “Michael Jackson” doesn’t just give me a list of website I can visit to learn more about him; it immediately brings up factual information about the singer himself – occupation, age, place of birth, timeline, etc. Pretty neat!
Continue ReadingBlackBerry Curve outsells the iPhone 3G
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Curve overtook Apple’s iPhone to become the top-selling consumer smartphone in the United States during the first quarter of 2009, according to research published by NPD Group on Monday.
NPD’s monthly “Smartphone Market Update” report, based on online surveys of consumers, now ranks the best-selling consumer smartphones in the U.S. as follows:
- RIM BlackBerry Curve (all 83XX models)
- Apple iPhone 3G (all models)
- RIM BlackBerry Storm
- RIM BlackBerry Pearl (all models, except flip)
- T-Mobile G1
NPD attributed the recent BlackBerry sales surge to an aggressive “buy one, get one free” promotion for the phone by carrier Verizon Wireless. It helped boost RIM’s share of the consumer smartphone market 15 percent to capture nearly 50 percent of the market in the first quarter, NPD said in a statement.
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Continue ReadingiPhone 3.0 beta 4, iTunes 8.2 pre-release now live
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 and iTunes 8.2 Pre-Release to Developers
Continuing a pattern of biweekly releases, Apple tonight seeded the fourth beta version of iPhone OS 3.0 to developers. Apple also issued a developer pre-release version of iTunes 8.2, which is required to activate the new beta. No new features in the fourth beta version have been revealed as of yet.
The iPhone OS 3.0 was first demonstrated at a media event in mid-March and will bring over 100 new features to users. The iPhone OS 3.0 is expected to be a major focus of Apple’s sold out Worldwide Developers Conference to be held in San Francisco in June.
Update: One forum poster points out that the latest iTunes 8.2 beta carries references to Blu-Ray data from Gracenote, suggesting that iTunes could support the reading/recognizing of Blu-Ray discs. This note is not present in the current version of iTunes:
Continue ReadingMore news 105.9 WXDX/Pittsburgh Penguins Extend Broadcast Agreement
WXDX-FM (105.9 the X) and the Pittsburgh Penguins are announcing they have agreed on a contract extension for the X to broadcast all Penguins games on the radio. The extension which takes effect in the Fall of 2009 is for 6 years and will take 105.9 the X into the new “Consol Energy Center.”
WXDX has carried Penguins hockey for the last 3-years and has enjoyed the benefits of the partnership including last year’s exciting “Stanley Cup” run.
John Rohm, President, Market Manager for Clear Channel Radio-Pittsburgh (which owns 105.9 WXDX) says “I’m delighted to announce the Radio Play by Play Broadcast Rights extension for another six years, with our friends and partners at the Pittsburgh Penguins!”
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