Will Google's Personal Assistant Be Creepy or Cool?

There seems to be a general consensus that Fantastical and Sunrise are the best calendar tools available today. 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference.

Katherine Mangu-Ward

Tech writers seem to confuse "creepy" with "convenient" in talking about Google's new smartphone personal assistant, Now.

The list of apps entering our lives is endless and of course we all love our gaming apps (my personal favourite at the moment being online casino games). And with developments such as Google Now and Siri, the major technology players are locked in a battle to provide us with the best, ever present, ever helpful, all singing and dancing personal assistants. These personal assistants of course reside in our smartphones or tablets – and so are always easily to hand.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Google Now is often compared with the Siri voice assistant on Apple’s mobile devices, but its power lies in giving you information you need to know before you have to ask. It works best as a supplement to Siri, rather than a replacement, now that it has expanded from Android devices to iPhones and iPads.

Seven million dollars. That’s how much Internet giant Google will pay to settle a multi-year investigation into its controversial “Wi-Spy” data collection practices.