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Dell Consumer Investments Hinder Quarterly Earnings
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:34:35 -0400
Dell invested heavily to expand its nonenterprise market share in Europe and in various IT sectors and may have overextended itself in trying to set up retail outlets and woo consumers over to its laptops, desktops and peripherals. Dell revealed in its quarterly report that its fiscal second-quarter earnings fell a full 17 percent from a year ago. - Dell, in its zeal to expand its nonenterprise market share in Europe and in various IT sectors, may have expended too much marketing energy and cash trying to set up retail outlets and woo consumers over to its laptops, desktops and peripherals. Dell revealed in its quarterly report on Aug. ...
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Privacy Features Win User Support
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:17:43 -0400
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 includes a number of security and privacy features that allow it to keep pace with competing browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Many users of Internet Explorer seem to appreciate Microsoft's privacy protections, which are designed to protect users' browsing information. The most talked-about features are InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate Blocking. - Much has been made of the new security features in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. As users and testers bang on the beta version of the browser, Microsoft appears to have gotten a lot right when it comes to privacy. In the Beta 2 version of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft has added a num...
HP Wins Inkjet Printer Cartridge Patent Suit Against Pelikan Hardcopy
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:26:23 -0400
Hewlett-Packard says a German court has found Pelikan Hardcopy to be in violation of laws on unfair competition. Earlier in August, the court ordered Pelikan, a provider of printing supplies, to stop importing and distributing inkjet cartridges that infringed on HP's patents. - NEW YORK (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard Co said on Thursday a German court has found Pelikan Hardcopy to be in violation of laws on unfair competition. Earlier this month, the court ordered Pelikan, a provider of printing supplies, to stop importing and distributing inkjet cartridges that infringed on...
KDE Momentum Continues with New Updates, Features
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:12:58 -0400
The KDE community has released KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release for the KDE 3.5 series of the popular Linux desktop. Meanwhile, KDE developers continue work on bringing service-oriented computing to KDE, as well as a new Amarok media player and enhanced Qt support. KDE also has adopted the Free Software Foundation Europe's Fiduciary License Agreement. - The KDE Community has announced the availability of KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release of KDE, the free desktop for GNU Linux and other Unix flavors. The KDE desktop is the system of choice for a broad array of Linux users. And although the KDE community released KDE 4.1 at the end of July, K...
ITC Trade Panel Agrees to Take Up Microsoft Patent Case Against Primax
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:01:25 -0400
Microsoft accused Primax Electronics of Taiwan of infringing on its patents for peripheral devices like keyboards and mice. The International Trade Commission has agreed to hear Microsoft's case against Primax Electronics. The complainant requests that the ITC issue an exclusion order and a cease and desist order. - WASHINGTON (Reuters) A trade panel has agreed to investigate Microsoft Corp's accusation that Primax Electronics of Taiwan has infringed its patents for peripheral devices like keyboards and mice, the International Trade Commission said on Thursday. The complaint was filed on July 30, 2008. The ...
Dell Earnings Disappoint, Tech Spending Seen Weak
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:55:01 -0400
Dell, the top maker of desktop, notebook and laptop computers, posts a surprisingly steep drop in quarterly earnings and says companies around the world are cutting back on technology spending, sending its shares tumbling and sparking fears of weakness in the whole tech sector. Dell's outlook is for slower spending especially in Asia and Western Europe. Dell has cut 8,500 jobs so far based on a plan to slash 8,900, and at least one analyst says the results could presage further cutbacks. - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Dell Inc. posted a surprisingly steep drop in quarterly earnings and said companies around the world are cutting back on technology spending, sending its shares tumbling and sparking fears of weakness in the whole tech sector. quot;They're saying lower IT (information te...

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Boeing raises its contract offer to Machinists
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Boeing delivered its "best-and-final" offer to Machinists union officials, raising its proposed wage increase to 11 percent over three years.
Jobs with real authority: working on Microsoft's spell-checker
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:06:05 -0700
In the last two years, few names have become as recognizable as Barack Obama's, a rise that continues tonight as he accepts the Democratic...
Fannie Mae replaces 3 top managers
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:24:30 -0700
Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Daniel Mudd replaced three top managers at the beleaguered mortgage-finance provider as the company struggles...

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AT&T’s Rivals Are Happy to Attack Over iPhone’s Network Woes
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:13:33 -0000
The debut of Apple’s iPhone 3G cellphones has been a public relations headache for AT&T, after complaints of dropped calls and poor network connections.
Bits: Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis?
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:33:16 -0000
Judy Estrin, a serial technology entrepreneur, says in a new book that Silicon Valley — and the country — are facing a crisis of innovation.
Results at Novell Are Better Than Expected
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:08:42 -0000
The business software maker Novell posted a quarterly loss but its results were better than expected, helped by an increase in sales of Linux software.

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Web surfing without leaving a trace
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:22:18 -0400
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'Junk raft' ends dangerous voyage
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:58:07 -0400
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Dead Sea Scrolls go digital
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:24:41 -0400
More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are getting high-tech treatment as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before.

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Obama Uses Text Messaging With Eye On Nov. 4
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:22:00 -0400
The Obama campaign has used text messaging to communicate with its supporters. Andrew Rasiej, founder of TechPresident, a blog that focuses on technology and the presidential campaigns, says the cell phone numbers can be used to get out the vote on Nov. 4.
'Marketplace' Report: Relief For Porn Addicts
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0400
In the newest test version of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer, consumers will have the option to surf without a "history." There are benefits to this feature beyond just prolonging marriages.
FCC Spreads The Word On Digital TV Switchover
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:04:00 -0400
In February, people who use an antenna to get television signals will have to begin using conversion boxes to watch their favorite programs. The Federal Communications Commission will start an 80-city tour this week to talk about the changes.

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Hackers prepare supermarket sweep
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:06:37 -0000
Cyber thieves are hatching a plan to steal US funds through British supermarkets, the BBC learns.
McKinnon loses extradition appeal
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:31:36 -0000
A Briton accused of hacking into secret Nasa military computers loses his appeal against extradition to the US.
Internet Explorer gets makeover
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:01:45 -0000
The next version of Internet Explorer has features to make browsing and searching easier and more secure.

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Reuters Technology Week
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:42:18 -0400
Aug. 28 - The latest in food-fuel and new technology helps decipher the Dead Sea scrolls.
Seals star on own web site
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:37:09 -0400
Aug. 26 - New technology is giving scientists and wildlife fans the chance to observe one of Lake Baikal's shyest inhabitants, the 'nerpa' seal as it is known locally.
Robotic suit helps paraplegics walk
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:53:35 -0400
Aug 26 - Israeli company develops remote-controlled suit that enables paraplegics to walk.

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Even critics give Apple a pass on iPhone 3G woes
By JESSICA MINTZ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:29:18 -0000
First an iPhone price cut left early buyers feeling foolish, and then came reports that some iPods were spitting sparks. Now the new iPhone 3G has been marred by bugs, spotty service, disappearing programs for the device and a veil of secrecy over software developers trying to broaden its appeal....
Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions
By MITCH STACY Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:16:55 -0000
Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too - to help convict him of killing four family members....
Dell 2Q profit drops 17 percent and stock plunges
By JESSICA MINTZ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:39:16 -0000
Slashing computer prices helped Dell Inc. boost sales in its fiscal second quarter, but the No. 2 PC maker's bottom line took a hit when efforts to cut costs failed to make up the difference....

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Vote for me, Obama says, through text messages
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:53:00 -0700
Delegates and other convention goers are asked to show support for Barack Obama by sending text messages, which will be scored based on what state they're from.
IE 8 Beta 2 not without its faults
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:53:00 -0700
While hiccups are expected from beta software, some of the affected services are Microsoft's own.
Whoops! Obama's VP text-messaging idea didn't work out so well
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:50:00 -0700
Keynote Systems reports that 40 percent to 50 percent of the text messages sent by the Obama campaign regarding the candidate's VP choice were late or never received.

 

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Annosoft Lipsync Toolkit - Offers speech tools SDK for building automatic realtime animation lipsync, closed captioning and annotation applications. Clever downloadable demo animation lipsyncs to your microphone speech or .WAV files.

Audio Search SDK - Compure develops software technologies to analyze audio. Products: SpeakFind to search for words or phrases (audio mining); ACTNow to detect music, jingles, advertisings, speakers; CoolRec to capture and manage audio data.

CSLU Toolkit - A comprehensive suite of tools to enable exploration, learning, and research into speech and human-computer interaction. Very impressive, includes facial animation.

CTMaker - Real-time application generator for unified messaging systems; supports TAPI, SAPI, sharing information between SQL-databases, emails, web-pages, phones, pagers. Allows development of CTI applications.
Meta Description: [ Developer Tool for Internet, Telephony and database applications. CTMaker supports TAPI, SAPI compliant TTS and ASR engines. CTMaker enables to share information between eMails, web-pages, databases, phones, handys, pagers. ]

Engineered Station - Pakistani Electrical Engineer offers basic level of information for implementing speech enabled applications using TAPI, MAPI and WAPI. A starter site for students and beginners.

Free Subscription to Speech Technology - Speech Technology Magazine is recognized worldwide as the leading source of information on speech technology solutions that are changing communications and technology needs of organizations worldwide.
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Gamer's Voice Commands and Macros - Shoot, a speech recognition program that emulates arbitrary keystrokes based on voice commands issued by the user. For controlling games. Win 98 and higher.

HTK3 - Hidden Markov Toolkit - Development and distribution site for HTK3, a hidden markov toolkit designed for speech recognition. HTK3 is available for free download as C source. Used at hundreds of research sites world wide.
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404 IBM ViaVoice SDK - ViaVoice speech recognition (ASR) SDK available here. Also included in RedHat Linux 6.0 (see Application CD). SDK for several platforms.
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Institute for Language and Speech Processing - Founded in Athens (Greece) in 1991 under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Development. Language tools, Greek text to speech, language processing.
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Intercom Program for Windows - ESDi is a shareware program to allow one or more people at a time talk via PC. Designed to run on LANs. Free trial.

Lyrebird Technologies - Sells Lyrebird, a graphical development environment that enables non-speech developers to build natural language speech recognition applications using artificial intelligence (AI) processes.
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Natlantech - Develops and distributes software for speech analysis, speech recognition and Natural Language processing.
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Nellymoser, Inc. - Specializes in speech and audio technologies for wired and wireless networks. Variety of image, speech, motion and pattern recognition SDK's.
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500 NeuVoice Ltd - Provides a high-accuracy, small foot-print and noise-robust speech recognition systems, ideal for command and control in noisy environments especially mobile and hand held devices.

PC Command and Control - e-Speaking offers desktop command and control speech recognition software compatible with and complementary to Windows XP and Windows 2000. A fully functional version can be downloaded for free containing over 100 built-in commands.
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404 PhantomSpeech - A speech engine independent TTS component built on the COM specification providing the same set of APIs for accessing any speech engine. An attempt to provide a universal standard for Text to Speech conversions. Free download.

Polfonetika - A research and development company specializing in speech and language engineering for Polish. Offers open source tools.

SBrecog Speech Recognizer Frequently Asked Questions - Early speech recognition library for C programmers, site is maintained by the author. It helps with installation and compile troubles and answers questions on the underlying SR techniques.

Silent Software - Blog for Microsoft Speech Server, VBSalt, and speech application development.

Simplified Speech Toolkit for the Web - Information, software, and support for developing applications, web or otherwise, that you talk with using speech recognition and speech synthesis from Chant Inc.

SONIC: Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System - A large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system/tool kit under development at the University of Colorado, Center for Spoken Language Research.

Speak To Mail - Software and hardware allowing for speech interaction with email software packages such as Outlook Express, Eudora, and Netscape Messenger.
Meta Description: [ CoolSoft, LLC is on the cutting edge of technology, and, utilizes a virtual office as part of its business model. Using notebook computers, wireless communications, the Internet and servers, our staff can work and conduct business from anywhere in the world. ]

Speech Filing System - Tools for Speech Research - SFS provides a computing environment for conducting research into the nature of speech. It comprises free software tools; special file and data formats; subroutine libraries for I/O, signal processing and graphics; use and documentation standards; and special programming languages.

Speech Recognition Kit - Sensory, Inc. provides low-cost speech recognition technologies for consumer products for the embedded speech recognition market and also offers a software solution for DSPs and microcontrollers.
Meta Description: [ Sensory, Inc. provides embedded speech recognition and synthesis technologies for consumer electronics. We offer low-cost Interactive Speech microprocessors and the FluentSoft line of SDK's for DSPs and microcontrollers. ]

SpeechStudio Suite - A software toolset to develop, test, refine, deploy and maintain a speech recognition interface on Microsoft Windows (SAPI 5.0). Takes much of the difficulty and detail out of programming at the API level.

Terakeet - Producer of a voice application toolkit that aims to be easy to use and quick to deploy.

VAX VoIP Software Development Kit - Enable applications and Web pages to have voice conversation over the internet protocol (VoIP). It includes VoIP activeX (OCX), VoIP COM DLL, VoIP LIB and VoIP CAB, to provide wide implementation choice.
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Visual MP3 - Sells visual GUI software which can read text files and save the speech to MP3, MP2, WAV, Ogg Vorbies and VOX formats. Includes mouth motion animation.
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Voice Web Studio - SALT development tool for creating multimodal and speech-enabled accessibile web sites compatible with Dreamweaver MX.
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VoiceClient - A speech enabled email solution based on VoiceXML, can be easily integrated into open speech environments and existing messaging solutions.

Voxi - Swedish company which develops and licenses a general-purpose software platform, Intelligent Speech Interfaces (TM), involving speech recognition, natural language understanding, and high-quality audio feedback. Targets a wide array of applications ranging from sports to industrial, medicine to inventory control, and entertainment to banking.
Meta Description: [ Voxi develops and licenses a general-purpose software platform for Intelligent Speech Interfaces (TM), involving speech recognition, language understanding and high-quality audio feedback. ]

Wizzard Software Corp. - Speech recognition tools, packages and consulting services including a desktop Interactive Voice Assistant.
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