WolframAlpha iPhone Portal Now Live

by Jody Mitoma on June 15, 2009 at 8:38 pm

WolframAlpha.com officially releases its own iPhone portal, and with good reason, too.

For those of you that haven’t heard of WolframAlpha yet, I highly suggest you take a look at what the future of browsing has in store. Actually, WolframAlpha and Google Wave in particular. Stop reading now, and take a look at both of those websites. You’ll like what you see.

First time I saw WolframAlpha, not but 48 hours from this very moment, I didn’t leave the website for at least half hour, if not more. The information that the website just throws at you is phenomenal! I mean, really. It gives you more information than you know what to do with.

This website can answer queries that would baffle traditional search engines. Not only does it answer your mathematical and historical questions, but it provides tons of comparisons, performs linguistic searches, and gives a way to do calculations that are impossible elsewhere.

Here is a quote from the official website, explaining exactly what WolframAlpha is:

Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.

Now, with the recent release of WolframAlpha’s iPhone Portal, you’ve got all of this information, fitted to your iPhone’s touch screen. All you’ve got to do, is point your Mobile Safari to the following URL: http://www.wolframalpha.com.

WolframAlpha is asking for input and suggestions as to what they could do to future iPhone portal updates or applications. Feel free to share your thoughts here.

via TUAW

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