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We can find any sort of information on the Internet with just a few clicks. Normally, we use Google Search or Bing Search engines to find information. Based on your search terms, Google provides you ...

Curious to use Wolfram Alpha, but don't want to give up Google as your main search engine? Now you can use both at the same time with this Firefox extension. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now ...

Apple’s personal digital assistant Siri can help you find gifts at Best Buy thanks to a recent feature added to Wolfram Alpha. The so-called computational knowledge engine has tapped into Best Buy’s ...

Wolfram Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine" that's steadily updating, has a good but hidden use as a word and language tool for use while writing. In other ...

It seems that most people who have had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha (myself included) agree that it will do a few things to Google: it will drive it to innovate in semantic search and it will ...

The already much discussed Wolfram Alpha official launch is Monday May 18, though the company has said they plan a “soft launch” starting tonight, with access gradually becoming available to everyone ...

Editor’s note: Below is a guest post from Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, about a new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha being developed by computer scientist Stephen Wolfram.

Developers can now put Wolfram Alpha results in their own applications. The company today opened up its API to open access, allowing coders to query the Wolfram system and incorporate its data, ...

This is just one more awesome thing Wolfram Alpha is capable of: it can take a jumbled set of letters and tell you what Scrabble words you can make with them. It's Friday, and if you're spending your ...

Lots of Web services provide a formal API that allows structured data to be obtained for display on a separate website or via a desktop app. Many of these, however, come with certain display ...