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RunKeeper’s smartphone app gets smarter with sensors

Smartphones are packing more sensors these days, and application developers continue to find new ways to gain additional value from them. Popular exercise application RunKeeper, for example, updated its software on Monday with two new ways to take advantage of the … Continue reading

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The smarter enterprise

Enterprises spend $ 270 billion on software every year, yet some can’t even calculate the number of employees in their organizations. Shocking? Well, such was the problem for Chiquita before they moved to Workday.  But rudimentary challenges like this plague every … Continue reading

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Google Goggles Makes Your Phone’s Camera Smarter

Google Goggles is an application that’s sometimes useful, but it’s not good enough to use it every time you want to find something about an object. The Android app has a new feature that integrates it with the Camera app, … Continue reading

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Chrome’s Spell Checker Gets Smarter

Just like Firefox, Chrome doesn’t have a smart spell checker. It uses a dictionary and it shows spelling suggestions for the words that aren’t included in the dictionary. Chrome’s suggestions aren’t always great because they ignore the context. Google has … Continue reading

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Hurricane Irene highlights need for smarter grid

Hurricane Irene wasn’t exactly the raging monster that some forecasters expected, but it has left millions of people across a whole bunch of communities in the dark, and potentially without power for days, and even weeks, at a time. For … Continue reading

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