From Information to Understanding: Moving Beyond Search In The Age Of Siri

Editor’s note: Nadav Gur is the founder and CEO of Desti, a virtual personal assistant for travel incubated by SRI. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Worldmate, the first mobile travel app.

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

–Albert Einstein

Since the launch of Siri on the iPhone

Archos Arnova GBook heads to the FCC, may have literary ambitions

Archos makes regular stops at the FCC. We know this. When it passes an Arnova-badged device called the GBook through the US agency, though, that piques our interest. The name immediately suggests a reading-friendly Android tablet in the vein of the Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet, but there’s not much in

Ask Engadget: best case for the Samsung Galaxy S III?

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from is from Amandeep, who needs a case for his new superphone. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask

Vertical Is The New Horizontal: How The Cloud Makes Domain Expertise More Valuable In The Enterprise

Editor’s note: Gordon Ritter is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital focused on cloud companies. 

In the days before the cloud, on-premise software providers that focused on selling into a vertical market were considered second-class citizens to the “big guns” selling into the broader

Mobile Miscellany: week of July 23rd, 2012

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, Nokia introduced a custom edition Lumia 610 smartphone and also released its Camera Extras app for global availability. These stories

Alt-week 7.28.12: social mathematics, Pluto’s moons and humans-on-a-chip

Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days. It’s a beautiful world we live in. And, while the sweet and romantic part is debatable, strange and fantastic is not. Our universe is one populated by non-planetary celestial bodies with their own non-planetary

A Few Good Rounds: Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years

Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series by Redpoint Ventures principal Tom Tunguz examining trends in the public and private technology markets. He recently discussed four trends in the public technology markets. Today, he compares the current state of the US venture capital to historical

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