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Wolfram Alpha for iPhone 1.4 wows with image manipulation, Best Buy purchasing

by Steven Sande (Mar 15th, 2012)

Wolfram Alpha app (US$2.99) fans should be rejoicing today. Version 1.4 of the incredibly powerful analytics app is available and adds a number of new features, including image analysis and manipulation. Among the new goodies in Wolfram Alpha 1.4 are a new look for weather queries and the ability ...

Daily Update for February 7, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 7th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Stephen Wolfram on Siri

by Erica Sadun (Feb 7th, 2012)

In a Monday afternoon briefing, Stephen Wolfram spoke about the direction of Siri and Wolfram Alpha integration. He explained that over time, the range of queries that users can ask Siri that are served by Wolfram Alpha continues to get broader. This is apparently a natural byproduct of using a ...

Siri / Wolfram Alpha trick lets you know what is flying overhead

by Steven Sande (Nov 26th, 2011)

I'm a bit of an airliner freak, so I love looking up at the contrails of jets flying overhead and wondering where a plane might be going. I recently found out that Wolfram Alpha has the ability to tell you what airplanes are cruising around above you based on your position and its knowledge of ...

10 cool things you can do with Wolfram Alpha and Siri

by Erica Sadun (Oct 28th, 2011)

Steve Sande and I have been collaborating on "Talking to Siri," an ebook that just recently hit the Kindle store. It's a how-to that will help you get the most done with your Siri intelligent assistant. We're sharing some of our favorite tips with TUAW readers. Today, we're looking at Siri's ...

Daily iPhone App: Wolfram Alpha

by Mike Schramm (Oct 17th, 2011)

Games are popular on the App Store right now (check out the lists of top paid and free aps), but several readers have asked us to extend beyond games with the Daily iPhone App series. So, here you go. Wolfram Alpha for iPhone is a mobile version of the very useful "computational knowledge ...

Wolfram Alpha lowers iPhone app price, will give refunds

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2010)

Well here's an interesting twist on the Wolfram Alpha saga -- after initially releasing their "knowledge system" on the iPhone and then pulling it and trying to go premium with a $50 iPhone app, they've now reversed their position once again. The iPhone app will drop back down to $1.99 on Sunday, ...

WolframAlpha iPhone-formatted web page no longer available

by TJ Luoma (Dec 3rd, 2009)

Wolfram|Alpha has discontinued their iPhone-friendly formatted webpage. The page, which was available at http://wolframalpha.com/iphone, now redirects visitors to http://products.wolframalpha.com/iphone/, which is an information page related to their $50 iPhone app [iTunes Link]. Another page, ...

Wolfram|Alpha now has an iPhone portal

by Steven Sande (Jun 15th, 2009)

The knowledge engine at the heart of the recently launched Wolfram|Alpha site can answer queries that would baffle traditional search engines. It can make amazing comparisons, perform linguistic searches, and provides a way to do calculations that are impossible elsewhere other than in a copy of ...