Are you tired of getting a computer when you call customer service? Reach this artilce from The Consumerist to find “50 Ways To Get A Live Person When You Call Customer Service”
VoIP-News has posted 50 ways to get a live person when you call customer service (an increasingly rare occurrence). My favorite is no. 32:
Do [...]
from the Google Blog:
Starting today, we’re deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results page).
When you do a [...]
via Techcrunch:
Notice that title tag for my Twitter profile page?
It reads “Robin Wauters (robinwauters) on Twitter” where it used to say “Twitter / robinwauters”. For the TechCrunch Twitter account, it used to read “Twitter / TechCrunch” (only the username) instead of now “Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) on Twitter” (full name + username).
Minor tweak, you say? Mundane [...]
via TechCrunch:
The iPhone now accounts for 50 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones in the U.S., according to an AdMob Mobile Metrics report released this morning. Over the past six months, the iPhone has taken share from Blackberry and Windows Mobile. In August 2008, the iPhone made up only 10 percent of mobile Web [...]
via Gizmodo:
Leaks suggest that Intel will be dropping a new single-core Z-series Atom proc that will be the first of the family to reach 2GHz.
from jkOnTheRun:
A small but welcome feature should be in the Labs section if you use Google’s Gmail service. It’s called “Undo Send”, or as I like to call it: the “Uh-Oh” function. Once enabled, you’ll have a five-second window to stop a message from leaving after you hit the Send button. I tested it late [...]
From Gizmodo:
Our beloved Eye-Fis (SD cards that add Wi-Fi to any digital camera) have finally gotten the bump from their 2GB standard. Now Eye-Fi cards hold 4GB of photos and upload videos to YouTube/Flickr.
4GB Explore Video ($100)automatically geotags photos and videos; also offers hotspot access at more than 10,000+ Wi-Fi locations
4GB Share Video ($80) sends [...]
Here it is:
As I noted earlier on Monday, Microsoft plans to start internal testing later this week of Kumo, the rebranded version of Live Search. Now I have a screenshot to share.
Also, here’s the text of an e-mail that search executive Satya Nadella just sent to his staff. Keep in mind, [...]
Finally the new Mac Desktops have arrived.
As expected, Apple announced long-overdue and, in certain places, eagerly-awaited refreshes of its Mac desktop PCs, including the Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Pro. There are two separate announcements–and no special event, as often happens with Apple–one for the consumer Macs, and one for the Mac Pro (which is [...]
Apple’s iPhone seems to be handily controlling the mobile web market at 66%.
Net Applications’ February results show the iPhone operating system having managed over nine times the usage of its next smartphone competitor, Windows Mobile, which had just 6.91 percent of the traffic measured across tens of thousands of sites.
Other smartphone platforms haven’t fared any [...]