Google conversational search In the coming days Google is rolling out something new: Conversational Search , an innovative functional addition to Google Search which allows users on all devices (including desktop, tablet and smartphone) to engage in ask and answer sessions with Google Search. This new service is however limited to Google browsers only (read Chrome ). And example of a conversational search would be: "Where can I find a train station in Rotterdam South" upon which Google gives you one or more answers. You could continue by asking "How about a metro station?" and when you receive more then one answer you may want to ask "Which one is most nearby my current location?" etc. etc. In other words, the new service allows you to vocally chat with Goog;e's search engine. Questions and answers are both in spoken language, for now limited to English but that is expected to be widened soon to more languages. And here's fun thing to try... Ask G...
As mobile payments are getting increasingly popular, today we will bring you a little article on Square , the mobile payment provider that allows you to make on-demand payments and receive payments (even from Credit Cards) using iPhone, Android and Samsung's bada OS (Tizen). Square offers three main products: Square Card Reader , accepting payments on your smart-device Square Register , turing your tablet, phablet or smartphone into a digital cash-register Square Wallet , make payments and keep a digital cash-account, easily managed from your smart device Square is especially useful to small entrepreneurs allowing them to accept clients' payments easily, fast and instantly without a lot of extra costs and hassle. But since its launch, we are seeing many larger shops and franchise-chains picking up on this new trend as well, including over 74,000 Starbucks shops US-wide. In a sit-down with a select group of journalists, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Square CEO Jack Dorsey ...
If you use Windows Live, you probably have already noticed the introduction of SmartScreen , a usefull add-on that allows you to instantly access white-listed locations on the web, redirecting users to interstitial pages or simply denying access to certain pages based on content. SmartScreen is a kind of barrier between the links received in Windown Live services and the actual target. Let me explain how it works. Windows Live Messenger contact list contains personal or business contacts.Nowadays, "block-checker" and other services have been increasingly harvesting account names and passwords to be re-used in link-spam bots that message contacts from the affected account. Since a certain amount of trust is expected from Messenger contacts, malicious links which are sent usually without the account's owner even aware of it, have become a growing irritation among Windows Live users. SmartScreen has therefor been created to form a gateway between the received links in Wind...
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