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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wolfram Alpha is not Google. You don't hear anybody using Wolfram Alpha as a verb. "I don't know, let me Wolfram Alpha it" lacks a certain ring. However, Wolfram Alpha is doing a nice job positioning ...

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, ...

Apple’s personal digital assistant Siri can help you find gifts at Best Buy thanks to a recent feature added to Wolfram Alpha. The so-called computational knowledge engine has tapped into Best Buy’s ...

Microsoft's search engine Bing will soon feature results from the innovative Wolfram|Alpha web service that attempts to compute answers to searchers' questions, rather than link to web pages. Bing and ...

Whenever someone tells me they're building a search engine that will do things better than Google, I am skeptical. Not because I think Google does everything well, but because it is very hard to build ...

Wolfram Alpha wants to lay claim to the output of its searches, which may ensure that virtually no one bothers to use the service at all. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written ...

Wolfram Alpha now provides an API that lets developers pull results out of its computational engine. However, they'll have to pay, as even the cheapest plan will set users back over two cents a search ...