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 ...

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 ...

Curious to use Wolfram Alpha, but don't want to give up Google as your main search engine? Now you can use both at the same time with this Firefox extension. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now ...

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 ...

Developers can now put Wolfram Alpha results in their own applications. The company today opened up its API to open access, allowing coders to query the Wolfram system and incorporate its data, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re studying math or science, you are probably pretty familiar with Wolfram Alpha as a tool for figuring out complicated equations. That makes it a pretty good tool for cheating, but not ...