Before Google dominated search, Ask Jeeves depended on a team of humans — yes, humans — to answer your internet queries. Ultimately, search algorithms killed the internet’s favorite butler, but the idea that humans are worthy competition for the software we create didn’t follow him to the grave. Case in point: Ask Ooloo, a digital assistant powered by living, breathing human beings. According to Ooloo’s makers, the PPDA (people-powered digital assistant) is staffed with “real people 24/7” ready to offer you quick, localized search results with a personal touch. All you have to do is speak your question, as you would with Google Now, Siri or Cortana, and wait for an answer. We put the iOS app to the test, asking it ‘Who invented the Internet?” What it revealed, probably won’t shock you.
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Source: App Store, Google Play
Before Google dominated search, Ask Jeeves depended on a team of humans — yes, humans — to answer your internet queries. Ultimately, search algorithms killed the internet’s favorite butler, but the idea that humans are worthy competition for the software we create didn’t follow him to the grave. Case in point: Ask Ooloo, a digital assistant powered by living, breathing human beings. According to Ooloo’s makers, the PPDA (people-powered digital assistant) is staffed with “real people 24/7” ready to offer you quick, localized search results with a personal touch. All you have to do is speak your question, as you would with Google Now, Siri or Cortana, and wait for an answer. We put the iOS app to the test, asking it ‘Who invented the Internet?” What it revealed, probably won’t shock you.
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Source: App Store, Google Play
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suspected HP’s diminutive webOS 2.2 smartphone might be on its way to AT&T, and now a handful of leaked photographs rocking a panda-like color scheme have further confirmed our suspicions. As you can see from the image above, the little guy’s working the carrier’s logo in the upper left-hand corner of its 2.6-inch display. The photos of HP’s smallest webOS smartphone first appeared over at
Pocketnow on Friday, just days before the Veer’s May 2nd
launch party is scheduled to pop off in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, we still don’t know
exactly when the Snapdragon-packing device will be available for purchase, or how much it will cost when it lands, but we’re hoping to have more on that after tomorrow’s alleged event. Until then, you can always live vicariously through our
hands-on with this little multi-tasking wonder. Now, isn’t that just precious?
HP’s Veer gets AT&T logo, two-tone exterior originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 01 May 2011 19:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We
suspected HP’s diminutive webOS 2.2 smartphone might be on its way to AT&T, and now a handful of leaked photographs rocking a panda-like color scheme have further confirmed our suspicions. As you can see from the image above, the little guy’s working the carrier’s logo in the upper left-hand corner of its 2.6-inch display. The photos of HP’s smallest webOS smartphone first appeared over at
Pocketnow on Friday, just days before the Veer’s May 2nd
launch party is scheduled to pop off in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, we still don’t know
exactly when the Snapdragon-packing device will be available for purchase, or how much it will cost when it lands, but we’re hoping to have more on that after tomorrow’s alleged event. Until then, you can always live vicariously through our
hands-on with this little multi-tasking wonder. Now, isn’t that just precious?
HP’s Veer gets AT&T logo, two-tone exterior originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 01 May 2011 19:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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