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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Wolfram Alpha Mobile Site Drops Price, Seeks to be Data Engine

It is reported in ReadWriteWeb:

' ... Once upon a time, Wolfram Alpha tried to charge $50 for its iPhone app while, at the same time, offering a free iPhone-optimized mobile site. Then, the company shut down the mobile site of its "computational knowledge engine" altogether. Now, however, Wolfram is reversing this strategy and is not just bringing back a new and improved version of its mobile site, but the company also just announced that it will reduce the price of its iPhone app to $1.99 on Saturday and will issue a refund to every customer who bought the app at the full price ... ' .

I will be likely to try this more often in a mobile format. It would be further useful to connect the mobile app to sensor data in the IPhone. Related to that: Wolfram Alpha Wants to be a Google Maps for Data. Nice idea.
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