Kara Swisher in Media on July 25, 2011 at 6:14 am PT
It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s first successful social networking product.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT
Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda.
That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content.
BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 1, 2011 at 10:45 am PT
It took a congressman who’s also a nuclear scientist and former “Jeopardy” champion in his own right to do what Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter failed to do: Beat IBM’s Watson.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 7:45 am PT
Having licked the puny humans on TV games shows, the Watson supercomputer, or at least one like it, will be put to work on ways to help doctors make better decisions.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 3:19 pm PT
Answer: What is IBM’s Watson? The supercomputer training for an expected TV debut next month on “Jeopardy” won a practice round today.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Among the early adopter types I know in the tech industry, there’s a sense that casual gaming on Facebook serves an entirely different demographic from their own. The thinking is that games from Zynga and the like replace relatively mindless activities like soap opera watching.
But as someone who has just reorganized her virtual retail shops to be surrounded by virtual trees so as to accumulate more virtual bonus points, I see how social gaming–especially as it gets more social–might appeal to the desire for mindless diversions in all of us.
News Byte
Beth Callaghan in News on December 21, 2010 at 12:23 pm PT
“WikiLeaks” has entered the canon of the English language, but not according to the OED. Research done by a group known as Global Language Monitor shows that “WikiLeaks” has appeared in global media more than 300 million times since 2006. The Texas-based group cites a minimum of 25,000 mentions in English-speaking media as a requirement for the name to become its own lowercase, generic word. Unfortunately, GLM doesn’t specify its definition or whether the word would be used as a noun, verb, adjective or adverb.
Kara Swisher in News on August 12, 2010 at 10:05 am PT
BoomTown was sitting front row center–better to scare Google Mobile Product Manager Hugo Barra–at the Silicon Valley search giant’s press event in San Francisco this morning.
Google called together a group of reporters to discuss some “cool new features” for its Android operating system.
While many have been expectantly waiting for Google to announce a video-calling offering, to match Apple FaceTime service, that was not to be here.
Instead, it was a low-key rollout of a few whiz-bang features we can all ooh and ahh at.
Kara Swisher in D8 on August 12, 2010 at 9:33 am PT
As promised,
All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our
eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June.
Today, it’s time for
Wordnik, the innovative start-up aimed at, well, words. Wordnik claims to have the word’s most complete map of the language you are currently reading.
Drake Martinet in D8 on June 3, 2010 at 11:45 am PT
What does it all mean? For nine million words of the English language, Wordnik claims to have the answer. Founded by Erin McKean, the former editor in chief of The New Oxford American Dictionary, Wordnik claims to have the word’s most complete map of the language you are currently reading.
