Siri makes up 25% of all Wolfram Alpha searches
Apple’s virtual assistant Siri has found a good match in Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine from Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram.
Siri now accounts for 25 percent of all searches made on Wolfram Alpha, the New York Times reports in a profile of Alpha’s upcoming premium service.
The figure shows that there’s a lot for average users to get out of Wolfram Alpha, especially when they don’t even realize they’re using the service. Siri taps … Continue Reading
Dead poet dominates iPad app store sales
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
But for T. S. Eliot, who wrote those lines, June might be looking pretty good. (If he were still alive, that is.) That’s because an iPad app based on his long poem, “The Waste Land,” is selling very well on Apple’s iTunes App Store.
According to eBook Newser, it’s also the #1 selling … Continue Reading
