Introducing The New Chatbot of Google, Meena!
Google has something new, something more interactive in its store, Meena, the new chatbot. It is more conversational as compared to the existing AlexaRead More…
Category: Microsoft & Google
Yahoo Fails to Impress But No One Seems to Care
Yahoo had its annual meeting this past week. In case you missed it, not much happened. Yahoo is pretty determined to go it alone and apparently has soRead More…
A Proprietary Web? Blame the W3C
A recent post of mine about Firefox and my general view of corporations and organizations caused a bit of a stir. It even caught the attention of Asa Read More…
The Next Revolution: Why The New iPhone Matters
A revolution is easy to spot when looking backward, but they are much harder to see when they first happen. Microsoft, Apple, eBay, Amazon…all revolRead More…
Microsoft Offers Cash Back to Searchers, But for How Long?
More details are likely forthcoming shortly, as Microsoft plans to announce a big search initiative later today. But in the meantime, restless bloggerRead More…
Paul’s Soapbox: DRM, 3G, Playstation Home
Paul’s Soapbox is a regular feature of TechConsumer where I sound off on various tech topics/products that I’m interested in (or hate). This is juRead More…
Blu-ray in the News: High Prices & No Microsoft Love
Since Blu-ray became the next generation movie disc format of choice, the consumer supposedly has been better off. But Tom’s Hardware claims that prRead More…
TC News: Wii Fit Unvelied, Amazon Now Prefers Blu-ray, Top Tech Companies Create Gaming Alliance
TechConsumer News is a feature we started out of a hobby of tracking the latest happenings within the consumer related technology sphere. The goal is Read More…
Search 1.0: Search Engines Still Lack Simple Features
I have a sister who, over the weekend, pointed out a major shortcoming of search engines. It’s so obvious that I’m not sure why I didn’t think oRead More…
Microsoft OneCare Software Bundles “Computer-Health” Services But Falls Short
Microsoft’s Windows OneCare package is now available to the public for testing. The computer-security service won’t be officially released until 2Read More…