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 ...

Another week another Google killer. Last week, it was Twitter as Google killer. This week it's Wolfam Alpha. The difference with Wolfram Alpha is that it has the pedigree, engineering heft and perhaps ...

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 ...

Having read–and even written–that Wolfram Alpha is some sort of cyber wonderbrain, I must say that now that I am using it I feel a bit underwhelmed. I do not know what I was expecting, but an online ...

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 ...

Wolfram Alpha LLC announced Monday the general availability of Wolfram|Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” available on the Web that shares code with Mathematica, Wolfram Research’s renowned ...

As we've discussed, Wolfram Alpha is a fantastic website that knows basically everything. But one way that people don't use it enough is when it comes to money. If you work in finance, play in stocks, ...

If you've been on the internet for a while, you might know Wolfram Alpha as the website where you chuck your calculus homework to get answers in a jiffy. At the time, it already felt like a cheat code ...

A new capability announced by Wolfram Alpha enabling its clients to browse Best Buy's electronics and appliances data provides iPhone 4S Siri users a new way to shop and compare products using their ...

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 ...