Two services, for example — Remember the Milk and Jott — are types of electronic crutches intended to help users be more efficient at ticking off items in their daily to-do lists.
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple jumped into the social networking business on Wednesday, introducing Ping, a service built into iTunes that is intended to help users discover new music and, presumably, buy more songs from Apple.
One has only to remember its most embarrassing venture into consumer computing when, in 1995, it introduced "Bob," a family software agent that was intended to help users but ended up being the object of ridicule.
Although not aimed solely at China, the new efforts are in part intended to help users circumvent the so-called Great Firewall, a far-reaching menu of direct censorship and "opinion guidance" that restricts what the country's 450 million Internet users can read or write online.
Jane is intended to help users to remotely and collaboratively interact with parallel simulations over the Internet, and to help them view their own model-specific run-time animations.
The meter will sync up with the app and is intended to help users more accurately log their daily blood glucose levels.
Some major product news from veteran anti-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo: Today it's launched revamped mobile apps and browser extensions that bake in a tracker blocker for third party sites, and include a suite of other privacy features intended to help users keep surfing privately as they navigate around the web.
The United States Federal Trade Commission dropped its investigation on the same matter stating that Google did not violate antitrust or anti-competition statutes in the way it arranges its Web search results, instead concluding that changes made to Google's algorithms were intended to help users, not harm competitors.
These maps are intended to help users visualize the chemical structures on metabolic maps and to get detailed information about metabolic processes.
This app is intended to help users easily investigate genomic alteration data in the context of biological networks.
