Tag: QUALITY

Lately, Google's been taking a lot of heat for the suddenly nebulous quality and reliability of its search results. In response, the company reaffirmed its commitment to enhance its search mechanisms, and rolled out a handful of small and subtle changes. Yesterday, however, Google announced that it's making a "big algorithmic change" -- one that its users will actually be able to notice. The ...

We can already envision the flame fest on this one, so we'll just cut to the chase. Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, has been conducting some pretty interesting tests on incoming students, and he's been recording results that'll surely make audiophiles cringe. He has been asking his students to listen to tracks in MP3 format as well as in formats of much higher quality, all while ...

While we were never big fans of Verizon Wireless's "Can you hear me now?" commercials, we found that the TV spots did sum up many of the frustrations many cell phone users at the time were having with their carriers: Poor signals and even poorer call quality. In the few months since we last saw one of those ads, our marvelous advances in technology have solved all concerns regarding call quality, ...