Google unveiled its new feature called Google Instant, which makes searching much faster than it has been before. It is really innovative as now users can enter the enquiry and look at the results changing during the typing at the same time. Actually, it’s not the search-as-you-type, its search-before-you-type because the new feature predicts what you want to find.
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Nike released its new Nike+ GPS App, engineered to operate seamlessly between GPS and an accelerometer, on the App Store. The new application allows runners to use their iPhone to visually map every run while tracking pace, distance, time and calories-burned as well as stay motivated with instant feedback during and after each run from athletes like Paula Radcliffe and Lance Armstrong, and comedian Tracy Morgan.
Sony Europe launched the Open Planet Ideas website in conjunction with global conservation organization WWF. The new web destination is an online community that aims to harness the ingenuity and open innovation out there to help tackle environmental challenges. It encourages members of the public to imagine how today’s technologies could be re-purposed to address environmental issues like climate change, biodiversity and water conservation.
On September 1, Apple® unveiled completely redesigned iPod nano, iTunes® 10 with Ping, new iPod touch®, and new redesigned iPod shuffle®, all of which are aimed at enhancing users experience in an extremely enjoyable way. Each of announced additions to Apple’s range definitely deserves to be reviewed, so below we post brief descriptions of the new products. For more information, go to www.Apple.com.
Google collaborated with indie rock band Arcade Fire’s to develop a wonderful online clip for their new song “We Used to Wait”—being the video of the new generation, it is totally tailored to each of the viewers and engages them to personalize it with just several clicks. The new experience, which is called “The Wilderness Downtown,” was created by writer and director Chris Milk and comes as a new addition to the portfolio of so-called “Chrome Experiments,” a series of projects that are testing JavaScript and showcase the properties of Chrome HTML5-compliant browser.
Yahoo! is providing its users with a tool that enables them to peer into the future. The new application, Time Explorer is a product of the Yahoo!’s research labs team from Barcelona and is designed for analyzing how news changes over time and search for already made predictions on certain things. The application is not unique, still it has a number of improved features and provide users with more relevant and extended results of search.
It seems that over a few years, we will not have to go to the cinema or even take a disc to watch a movie—everything will be online and for free. Last Friday, 27 August, YouTube launched another free movie section, this time in the UK, inviting people to watch hits of the film industry for free and without any time limitations on the web. To date, there are more than 400 full-length movies of various genres, including action, horror, comedy and animated films, with yet more to come.