Bing Maps
Microsoft today updated Bing Maps with a new routing engine that will make calculating driving directions on the service faster and smarter. Based on theoretical work done by a team at Microsoft Research, the Bing team today switched out its old routing algorithm for its own creation earlier today. According
2011
Spend enough time on the Internet and you would be forgiven to think that physical music sales died a long time ago. In the real world, though, plenty of people still by CDs (and a few buy vinyl as well). 2011 was a watershed year for digital music sales, though,
NASA today launched a dedicated site for showing off its work around open source software. You're not going to find the software that drives NASA's rockets and satellites here, but the agency hopes that the "site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum
Here is a small but nifty update for Google Translate for Android: the app now features experimental handwriting recognition for Chinese and Japanese characters. You can also enable this feature for English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, though it’s likely going to be more useful for trying to figure
Earlier this week, I wondered what happened to the new "Google Bar", the replacement for the black navigation bar that currently sits on top of virtually all of Google's online services. According to a blog post from late November, Google was planning to replace the old
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Roku quickly made a name for itself over the last few years thanks to its smart (and affordable) TV set-top boxes that allow users to easily stream Internet content from Hulu, Netflix and others to their TVs. Today, the company is announcing its newest product: the Roku Streaming Stick. This
Internet Explorer
According to the latest data from Net Applications, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6, the browser that overstayed its welcome for many years, is finally in its last throes. Usage of IE6, which officially launched 10 years ago, has now fallen to under 1% in the United States. While American
If there is one kind of blog post that makes my stomach turn, it's pay-per-post content that is just meant to deliver cheap SEO links for the "advertisers." Google, too, has generally looked down upon this kind of content. Now, however, it looks like the company
Just about a month ago, Google announced that it was retiring the black navigation bar that's been sitting at the top of virtually all of the company's products for the last few months. The so-called "sand bar" was supposed to be replaced by the
Even though the presidential elections are still nine months away, the political circus in the U.S. is in full swing already (and has been for months), thanks to the impending start of the Republican primaries tomorrow. As usual, Google will offer its own set of tools for keeping track
YouTube has been adding more and more live sporting events to its lineup over the last few months and years. With the Copa America soccer championship and cricket matches from India, the site managed to draw quite a few viewers with this, too (there have even been rumors of live
The first year for SiliconFilter is quickly coming to an end and I would like to say thanks to all of you who stuck with me throughout the last twelve months since I left ReadWriteWeb and decided to go solo. As with any startup, there have been ups and downs,