Google Now

The smartphone personal assistant war is heating up, with Google Now for Android taking Siri for iOS head-on. During the Grammy awards on Sunday, Google aired an advertisement for Google Now on the Nexus 4, focusing particularly on the application.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpaLZOjqMew&w=650&h=366]Google Now has been rated highly by pundits, and has ...

Google Now has won Popular Science's Innovation of the Year, putting it in the company of past winners such as the Large Hadron Collider, the Toyota Prius and the Mars Curiosity Rover.In giving the award, the magazine calls Now "the first virtual assistant that truly anticipates your needs". Since ...