Windows Phone's Cortana Can Now Help You Gamble And Make Choices

Cortana is a really helpful little partner for the individuals who decide to exploit her abilities in Windows Telephone 8. 

However now the virtual individual collaborator can help you settle on extreme decisions notwithstanding setting calls and helping you to remember critical commemorations. 

A redesign to Cortana on Microsoft's side has conceded the AI the capacity to flip a coin or move a bite the dust with a straightforward summon ("move the shakers," "flip a coin"), two arbitrary demonstrations that can be perpetually helpful. 

Forgotten 

Actually, perhaps not unendingly helpful - yet its decent to see Microsoft including little peculiarities that bail tissue out Cortana's identity. 

Techradar judged that Cortana stole the show in the most recent Windows Telephone redesigns, however strangely she was absent from Microsoft's late Windows 10 advertisement. 

In all actuality, that wasn't the most interesting thing about that declaration, however regardless we're wanting to see her get included in the following Microsoft OS before it dispatches one year from now.

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What Windows 8.1 Tells Us About Windows Phone Blue

Windows 8.1 (Photo credit: Javier Domínguez Ferreiro)

Microsoft might not have used its BUILD 2013 event to showcase much in the way of updates and features coming to the next version of Windows Phone, but some conclusions on the mobile operating system can be drawn from what Microsoft did talk about in great detail: Windows 8.1. Of course, these aren’t hardcore feature sets, nor are they official but it’s clear that Windows 8.1 (Photo credit: Javier Domínguez Ferreiro)
 icrosoft is likely taking a unified stances on its products.Personalization

With the Metro design language coming of age, it’s now clear that Microsoft seems to have realized that some of its initial implementations of Metro lack a big bullet point with users: personalization. In Windows 8.1 the company has started over and is allowing users to change their Start Screen backgrounds and added an almost dizzying array of color options.




Microsoft bringing over the customization options in Windows 8.1 seems is inevitable.



It’s almost inconceivable that Microsoft’s Windows Phone team wouldn’t add those features and take these lessons into consideration when creating their next major release. After all, even the company’s new television ads push the idea of Windows being available everywhere. If the company hopes to convince users of that, they’ll at least need to share fundamental design elements and customization features.
Integration

Testers of the Windows 8.1 Preview will find that Microsoft’s Bing search engine is built into the operating system’s Search Charm. With it, users can search Bing from almost anywhere in the operating system. Likewise, SkyDrive is now an operating system level feature. Instead of relying on applications that need to be installed, the cloud service’s syncing options are built into the control panel. In fact, users can even manage and view the amount of SkyDrive storage they have right out of the box.




SkyDrive Integration in Windows 8.1



Microsoft’s dedication to finally using technology and features across the company’s platforms isn’t necessarily new. However, it is something that is finally beginning to show results. Microsoft has already said that the next version of Windows Phone will enable users to share Internet Explorer tabs between Windows devices. It’s also known that the underlying operating system on Windows Phone 8 is actually Windows 8′s core.

There’s no reason to think that these same SkyDrive syncing features and large integration push won’t make it to the next version of Windows Phone. It’s actually the Windows Phone Team that started the trend first with integrated Bing searching and automatic photo backups to SkyDrive first.
Decentralization

Most will agree that Microsoft’s approach to Windows Phone telegraphed the coming of many of the new concepts that have now become staples of operating systems. Its People Hub and seamless integration with social networks in order to make the lives of users easier is now something that can be found almost on all mobile operating systems.




Like Windows 8 applications, Windows Phone applications might likely finally be able to update independently.



Unfortunately one of the things Windows Phone has gotten wrong since Day One is the way it approaches development of applications on the platform. With Windows, and again in Windows 8.1, Microsoft has decoupled the applications that are central to the user experience from the operating system. This approach allows teams inside Microsoft to release updates for their Windows apps independently of an operating system update. As Windows Phone and Windows 8 have a shared core, it’s likely that the next version of Windows Phone will do the same.

Microsoft isn’t yet acknowledging the existence of a significant Windows Phone 8 update beyond commenting that the Internet Explorer in Windows 8.1 will require a “future version.” Sources with knowledge of the company’s plans have indicated that the next version of Windows Phone — what’s know as Windows Phone “Blue” — will make its way to users early next year. When it does, it’s likely that many of the changes will look awfully familiar.



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Bing Maps Getting 3D Imagery in Windows 8.1

If you like the Flyover feature in Apple Maps that lets you see a cityscape in 3D or Google Maps' similar graphics, that same functionality is coming to the Bing Maps app in Windows 8.1.
The Maps app in Windows 8, powered by Bing, will get 3D imagery when it becomes available in the fall, Microsoft corporate vice president Gurdeep Singh Pall announced at the company's Build 2013 conference on Wednesday.In a demo, Pall showed some Flyover-type renderings with the new Bing Maps. However, the new app will be absent from the current preview version of Windows 8.1, which developers will be able to download today.

Although 3D imagery brings Bing Maps on par with its primary competitors, Apple and Google, the outpouring of criticism toward Apple Maps showed that users tend to value accuracy and informational features rather than impressive graphics.

Are you excited about 3D maps coming to Bing Maps? Let us know in the comments.

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Are Google ads costing you money?

No, this is not another Microsoft “Scroogled” campaign belying the contention of Google’s practice of paid advertisers getting the top shopping search results.

However, Microsoft’s campaign was trying to drive home a point which may prove relevant to those that do not pay attention to what they search for on the internet. Granted, Google is the search engine of choice, and that top spot is largely deserved. Like any company however, the goal is to make money, and Google, even with all its “free” stuff, makes a ton of money.

That money is made through advertising. Not just through Google Ads that appear on various web-sites, but also through search rankings, both in the shopping section, and in the general search. It is a common practice, companies pay to be at the top of the search rankings so they attract the most customers. We all know this.

However, if you are not paying attention, it might just cost you. A woman named Laura (not her real name) was in a hurry to pay London’s “congestion charge” which is a fee charged to vehicles that operate within the city’s Congestion Charge Zone. The common fee is £10 ($15) per day by the government’s official TfL (Transport for London).

Laura was in a rush, went to Google, searched for information to pay the congestion fee and clicked on the first site she saw and paid the charge, but instead of paying £10, she paid £15 ($23).  The government got its £10, but the 50% premium was pocketed by londoncongestion.com which pays Google to be a top listed search result and happened to be the site Laura selected after executing her search. The fact that londoncongestion.com makes it pretty clear at the top of its page that it is not affiliated with TfL is another story, but still relevant to paying attention in general.

TfL, to its credit, has been working with the search engines about unofficial sites, but Google has not been responsive (whereas it looks like Yahoo! and Bing have complied with the requests). The moral of the story is to pay close attention when you hit that search button on your device, whether it is linking you up with Yahoo!, Bing, Google, or anywhere, if you miss a detail, it might cost you hard earned money.  

source: The Guardian

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Google+ Posts Will Appear on Google Social Search Results

Google has started integrating Google+ users’ public posts into the search engine’s social search results, one-upping Facebook by wielding its search strengths to boost its fledgling social network’sfeatures.

The move is another sign that our social

networking statuses are seeping into all other areas of the web. And, the feature is actually pretty useful if you’re looking for relevant results.

This is an obvious and expected step, since Google already annotates results with results from shared social posts on services like Twitter and LinkedIn.

It’s also a smart move as Google continues to try to siphon users away from Facebook and other services. Google also is besting Microsoft’s Bing by incorporating social into search.

As Google writes on its Inside Search blog, if you’re signed into your Google Account, your search results may start including annotations about those links being shared publicly by people you are friends with (or at least connected to) on Google+. Google is careful to emphasize, however, that only public posts are visible in the search results.

Here’s the example provided by Google: Say you’re friends with an Andrew Hyatt who has publicly shared on Google+ a link to a restaurant review for Uncle Zhou in Queens.

When you log into your Google Account and search for “Uncle Zhou Queens” in Google, you’ll see at the bottom of the relevant search results that your pal Andrew Hyatt shared that link on Google+.

This latest Google+ addition to search is pretty useful if you think about it -- you can find links that are more important than others, perhaps, because people you know recommended them.

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Google Shuts Down Realtime Search, for Now

Google has shut down its Realtime Search offering after its agreement to include Twitter results expired.

The search giant appears to be planning to incorporate results from its own newly launched Google+ service instead of Twitter posts.

Google started including information like status updates and other public content from sites including Twitter and Facebook in search results in 2009. Initially, the results were incorporated into the main search site where users could navigate through the filtering options on the left-hand column to see the Realtime results.

But last year Google launched a standalone page, google.com/realtime, where users could specifically search for such results.

That URL is now displaying a 404 error page that says: The requested URL /realtime was not found on this server. That's all we know.

Google confirmed that it has disabled the service but said it plans to start up the service again.

"We've temporarily disabled google.com/realtime. We're exploring how to incorporate our recently launched Google+ project into this functionality going forward, so stay tuned," it said in a statement. "Our vision is to have google.com/realtime include Google+ information along with other realtime data from a variety of sources."

Google shut down the Realtime feed after its agreement with Twitter, which allowed the search giant to include Twitter messages through a special feed, expired on July 2, Google said. While it no longer has access to that feed, Google will continue to include Twitter information that is publicly available to its crawlers, it said.

The special feed gave Google a unique edge in that it was able to include older Twitter messages that are not available directly from Twitter.com. The Searchengineland blog, which first noticed that Realtime Search was disabled, noted that a small search engine called Topsy may be the only remaining site with access to historical Twitter messages.

Google left the door open to another possible agreement with Twitter. "Twitter has been a valuable partner for nearly two years, and we remain open to exploring other collaborations in the future," it said.

Microsoft's Bing also includes Twitter posts in search returns and appears to be continuing to do so.

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Google’s Crawl Rate Slowed for SOPA; Bing Sped Up [VIDEO]

Search giant Google joined in the SOPA protest Wednesday, not just with its blacked-out Doodle, but by agreeing to slow down its crawl rates during the Internet blackout. This meant sites that blacked out their pages wouldn't suffer in search rankings.

Google said in a Google+ post that it would slow its crawl rate to accommodate sites that wanted to join the protests, and even recommended ways to make sites continue to rank well.

Cloudflare, though, found that Google slowed as much as 60%; Baidu was down 11%, but Bing was up just slightly by 2.35%.

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If you took down your site in protest of SOPA and PIPA Wednesday, did you prepare it for the SEO fallout, or were you not concerned about ranking?

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These sites have "blacked out" Wednesday, Jan. 18 in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It makes it just a little bit easier to imagine what the web could look like if some of the measures from the proposed bill were to become law.

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