Microsoft introduces Bing Awards service for upcoming award shows

Fan of all things Hollywood or even just the award season? Microsoft recently introduced a new service under its search engine Bing that is geared towards the upcoming award ceremonies such as the Golden Globes, Grammy’s, and Oscars. Bing Awards is said to house everything related to the award season.

The site was opened just in time for Sunday night’s Golden Globes. Bing Awards contains a look at the event’s history, an insider look at the event, background on the nominees, predictions based on Bing search increases following nomination announcements, and even tips on planning a viewing party.

Source: The Next Web

Rogers and TELUS begin Lumia 1020 "Lumia Black" update

Nokia is finally rolling out the most anticipated update for their Lumia ecosystem since the devices first launched back in 2012. Aptly named "Lumia Black", Nokia has taken the minor improvements found in Windows Phone 8′s recent GDR3 update and added substantial user-facing improvements. We just installed the update and the process takes around 40 minutes. Hit jump for all the details.

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IBM's Watson re-imagined as a Cloud service

Watson is a groundbreaking platform and Jeopardy-beating AI that represents a new era of computing based on its ability to interact in natural language, process vast and disparate forms of big data and learn from each interaction.  Watson is an ultimate advisor, in its ability to sift through and understand massive amounts of big data at unprecedented speeds to assist professionals in understanding data quickly and easily, while increasing knowledge and gaining value over time.  Read more about it here.

CES 2014: First look at LG's webOS-powered SmartTV

Kudos to LG for taking the discarded carcass of the once-promising webOS platform and shaping it into something new and exciting with their webOS-powered SmartTV.  CES and webOS have a strange connection, the OS was introduced by Palm, together with the first Pre smartphone at CES 2009. Years later, webOS makes a stunning comeback as the most innovative take on SmartTV. It's good to see that webOS has a lot more to offer even if it isn't in a mobile device.