Several companies starting trials of the platform before end of 2013 Starting this year, IBM’s Watson intelligent agent technology will debut as a customer service assistant. Customers of Australia’s ANZ Bank, Celcom, The Royal Bank of Canada, and Nielsen can query the system for general questions related to accounts with the companies. IBM claims to [...]
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Watson technology being adopted for customer service, data mining
Posted by Gary on May 22, 2013
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Google to reportedly debut paid streaming music service at Google I/O
Posted by Gary on May 15, 2013
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Internet search giant Google is said to be preparing a launch of a subscription-based music streaming service akin to existing offerings like Spotify, with the announcement possibly coming as soon as this week at the company’s Google I/O Developers Conference.Citing people familiar with Google’s plans, The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported the company has [...]
Google to Unveil Streaming Music Service at Google I/O Tomorrow
Posted by Gary on May 15, 2013
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Google is set to announce a new music subscription service tomorrow at its annual Google I/O conference, reports The Verge, having finalized deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment., and Warner Music Group. The service is said to be a direct Spotify competitor, offering up songs on demand that can be streamed to a [...]
Feed Wrangler joins RSS competition with paid service
Posted by Gary on April 30, 2013
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Feed Wrangler is also available as an iOS app. With two months left to go, the post-Google Reader landscape of RSS services is still sorting itself out. The newest player? Feed Wrangler, a paid subscription service from the iOS developer of Check The Weather and Audiobooks. Feed Wrangler launched Tuesday on the web and as [...]
Apple’s contact service intelligently determines when to send a text instead of a call
Posted by Gary on April 30, 2013
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a patent for a dynamic communications system that automatically selects the best method of contacting another person, be it through voice, text or email, based on a given situation. Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 8,433,805 for a “Method and system for facilitating contacting people using electronic [...]
Wavii confirms purchase by Google, shuts down natural-language service
Posted by Gary on April 27, 2013
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Service shuttered, team moves to Bay Area for Knowledge Graph work The Seattle-based newsfeed company Wavii has closed, after confirming earlier reports that Google has bought the company. Its website has been updated to confirm the purchase by the search giant, while also shutting the service down in order to work on using its natural-language [...]
GOG makes ‘massive Mac games drop,’ adds 22 titles to service
Posted by Gary on April 24, 2013
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Total count of OS X compatible games climbs to 134 Digital games distributor Good Old Games has added 22 Mac OS X games to their 500+ game catalog. With this, which the company calls a “massive Mac Games Drop,” the total number of OSX games on the service has climbed to 134, after having made [...]