The first problem with the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app was that it cost $US50. The second problem was that the site’s iPhone web interface was nearly as good as the app, and it was free. Guess which issue Mathematica “fixed!” More »
Mathematica’s Wolfram Alpha, the occasionally cheesy, unintentionally racist autistic savant of search engines, has finally gotten a mobile version. It’s optimised for iPhones, and therefore Android phones, the Pre, and others (It works fine in Opera Mobile, for example). Search pages are presented in a clean, simple menu format, although results seem mostly unchanged. [Wolfram Alpha via Electric Pig] More »