Gootip is a free iPhone app and web-based service that is part of the trend of providing responses from people instead of search engines. One of its spins on this is it a location based questions and answers service. Unless otherwise specified, your question is based on your current location or a specified city.


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The Internet continues to change the way we ask and answer questions. The invention of services like Twitter, for example, has made us just a little bit lazier when it comes to doing our own investigative research. Rather than taking the time to uncover answers for ourselves, some of us now rely on Twitter's fast-acting and real time community to gather swifter responses.Unfortunately, many of our questions tend to go unanswered or receive silly responses that are in no way helpful to the i [...]

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The Internet continues to change the way we ask and answer questions. The invention of services like Twitter, for example, has made us just a little bit lazier when it comes to doing our own investigative research. Rather than taking the time to uncover answers for ourselves, some of us now rely on Twitter's fast-acting and real time community to gather swifter responses.Unfortunately, many of our questions tend to go unanswered or receive silly responses that are in no way helpful to the i [...]

Read More: InboxQ helps Twitter users with questions get direct answers from experts

You may have heard net-celebraties talk about getting crowdsourced answers from their tens or even hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter or Google+. But, the rest of us often don't have this net community as a resource. So, what are we to do? Ask.com has a free iPhone app that lets you get answers and opinions from real opinions. Android users do not need to feel left out of this service anymore. Ask.com just launched a free app for them.


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Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new mobile malware application on Android that disguises itself as a Google+ app. The app has the capability to record phone calls, as well as gather the GPS location of the handset, the text messages and the call logs, all of which are sent off to remote servers.

The app installs itself on Android devices under the guise of being a Google+ application, using the Google+ icon to disguise itself in both the Android applications list and the l [...]

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question_the_answers.jpg Looking for answers? Social media is a great way to find what you need. Whether it’s crowdsourcing an idea, looking for the best way to accomplish a daunting task or asking how others have experienced something – tapping into your online communities has become a good way to find answers. The question is, which social network is the best for finding those answers? Is in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Quora… or how about the [...]

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Speech recognition is one of those functions that works well and is desirable under some conditions (e.g., voice dialing while driving) and doesn't make sense under others (e.g., dictating a report while in a crowded cubicle environement). Some speech recognition applications are great show pieces but might not be practical. Nuance's new free iPhone app leans toward this category.Dragon Go!Nuance describes Dragon Go! like this: Dragon Go! knows what you want simply by how you say [...]

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