As technological advancements continue to progress at a rapid pace, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly playing an integral part in various sectors – healthcare being a prominent one.
Opera Reports Global Mobile Browsing Trends
Opera released its monthly report on the state of the mobile web. The report looks at the link between downloads and usage by Opera Mini users. Reports say that Opera Mini is the most widely downloaded mobile app, so this is quite significant.
Google and Predicting Search Trends
Update: Google has a fascinating research paper available about how it predicts search trends. Some of the key findings from this research are highlighted in this post at Google’s Research Blog.
Search Trends Spell Bad News For GM
Search trends tend to indicate what people are interested in; we all know about the swine flu spikes from a few weeks ago, for example. Unfortunately for General Motors, search trends now show that consumers may be even more averse to buying its vehicles than to catching the bug.
Trends Of A Teenage Hacker
When it comes to hacking social networks, girls are showing that they are more practical than boys in terms of what they are doing. Girls are more likely to go after information that leads to bank accounts, while boys are more likely to hack social networks in a survey conducted in England by Trend Micro.
Computer Analysis Slow To Pick Up Swine Flu Search Trends
Google Trends, SEO Create Hacker Perfect Storm
It used to be one was at most risk of getting a computer virus via spam or frequenting bad Internet neighborhoods (places one probably shouldn’t be hanging out in the first place, picking up just any old download they come across). These days malware pushers have come out in the open where the masses collect, and places like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are starting to resemble the Time Square of old—with peril and vice all around.
UK Search Trends Reflect Economic Fears
Even if news programs offer almost nothing other than economic information these days, it seems that a lot of people are still seeking out more of the stuff on their own. Fresh search data from the UK reveals that people are studying some rather depressing terms.
Google Examines Its 2008 Blogging Trends
One of the reasons Google gets so much press coverage is, frankly, that its representatives are so good about discussing corporate developments. And now things have been taken an informative/slightly ridiculous step further with a blog post summing up Google’s blogging habits this year.
Looking at Online Video Trends
As you are no doubt aware, online video has experienced a tremendous year in 2008 in terms of growth and usage. I have personally documented a fair amount of the happenings in the industry over the year myself.