During the Apple event on Wednesday, a new Apple TV was debuted, and with it, was a completely overhauled remote that puts Siri and search at our disposal. In order to use this new function, you would press the Siri button on the remote and say “Hey, Siri.” With that, you can search across multiple […]
Recently, Bing has released a brand new version of its iOS App, bringing a number of updates. One of the new updates includes the recently released smart tags in Bing News, which helps users find connected stories. With the new “Bing Interests” feature, it is now possible to track news stories, along with personalizing the content as well. […]
Despite the fact Android is on its way to being the dominant global operating system (Android has a 51.6 percent share in the US smartphone market during the month of June 2015), its US market share is pretty much flat and roughly the same place it was back in 2012. During the same time period, […]
According to a report by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, Android’s US market share is up 2.8 percent (which uses smartphone sales from March, April and May of this year). Android has ended up with ownership of 64.9 percent of the market. The reasoning behind the jump in Android popularity is due to the sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S6, […]
When iOS 9 makes its debut, Apple is giving app developers and easy way to create mobile ad blockers for their web browser, Safari, on iPhones and iPads. This could be bad news for those companies and businesses using ads to market their products and services. Although Apple never came out and used the term […]
There have been a number of announcements made at Apple’s WWDC event on Monday, including many search related features and a new and improved iOS 9 method for App Deep Linking. With deep linking, app developers will be able to communicate what content can be found within their apps, as well as having a way to specifically […]
Recently, there has been a new version of Google Maps (4.7.0) for iOS that has been released. In this newest version of of Google Maps, users have the ability to send locations from the PC to their i-devices. Even though users already have the ability to save places on the desktop and pick them up on their […]
How much do you think Google has invested into their Google Maps and Street View services? More than likely, probably hundreds of millions of dollars would be a safe bet. It looks like Street view’s serves a double folded purpose. Not only does it give users the ability to look around on Google Maps and […]
There’s some interesting news coming out of an extensive report in 9to5 Mac that Apple is going to be bringing out a potential search competitor to Google Now that has comparable “predictive search” functionality. Microsoft’s Cortana possesses predictive capabilities that Apple’s Siri lacks. This new capability, which is currently known as “Proactive,” has been built partially […]
Microsoft wants their Windows 10 to be as friendly as possible, including even being cross-device friendly. This means that the new operating system is going to work with Android and the iPhone to sync and make content available across all devices simultaneously. This particular strategy is pretty smart of Microsoft on their part. It was […]