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Fuji Copying and Translating Invention
2007-09-29 14:49:00
The great variety of languages confronting an average person every single day have created a lot of headache. Especially if the boss is strictly demanding translations of a document at his desk till the end of the working day.If this is a way things are done at your job, you should hear good news from Fuji Xerox - which has begun to produce photocopy machines translating the Japanese text into Chinese, English and Korean.The copying machine is connected to the translation server. It is equipped with the hardware containing algorithms, which can distinguish between the written text, lines and pictures, so as the original layout of a newspaper, a magazine or a document will be preserved.Unfortunately for the tired office workers all over the world, the miracle-copying machines are currently available only in Japan. Whether the new invention will do a better job in the matters of syntax as compared to Babel Fish or Google Tran slate, is still unknown.However, the hopes for better future...
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Business Applications Embracing Web 2.0
2007-09-28 09:07:00
It looks like businesses have finally started embracing web 2.0 principles. At least, Cisco Systems is actively moving into this direction. On Thursday, Cisco announced that the company plans to acquire Latigent, a Chicago-based business intelligence and analytic reporting tools provider.Latigent was co-founded in 2002 by CEO Chris Crosby and CTO Jason Kolb, who will both join Cisco after the close of the acquisition. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco's 2008 fiscal year.With this move, Cisco will be making a push into Web 2.0. Web 2.0 applications have already proven that when it comes to collaboration, the principles underlying web 2.0 are effective.
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Halo 3 Record
2007-09-27 14:00:00
Microsoft Corp’s Video Game -“Halo 3”outdid all the video games, and movies and set an opening-day U.S sales record of $170 million. “Halo 3 ” overcame even movies such as Spider-Man 3 -$59 million, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', and ”Halo 2” too-$125 million, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst, Michael Pachter estimates that 2.5 million copies were sold starting with midnight store promotions coast to coast, meaning one-fifth of all Xbox 360 owners bought a copy in the first 24 hours. "I would guess that the number is 1 million higher in a week, and double by year end."GameStop's Bob McKenzie calls Halo 3 the biggest title in the history of the 4,400-store chain. And Best Buy's Brian Lucas says: "It's safe to say Halo 3 is on track to be probably the biggest gaming title that we have ever seen. It's definitely a phenomenon.""Halo 3" is targeted firmly at the Xbox's core male audience, for whom realistic combat games are a staple.Halo 3 is launched in 37 ...
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The 12th Child of the Family Weighs 7.75 kg. Do You Think it is the World R
2007-09-27 11:00:00
Tatyana Barabanova, 43 years old, Siberian woman gave birth to her 12th child, Nadia. She weighs not less than 7.75 kg (17.1 lb). Family members are surprised but as the mother says each of her children weighed more than 5 kg.Still, It is not the world record. 10.2 kg baby was born in Italy, and the other 10.8 kg in the United States of America.
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Web 2.0 For Europeans by Europeans
2007-09-27 09:31:00
Recently a new European Web 2.0 social networking site called MyPacis.eu has been launched.MyPacis.eu uses Web 2.0 tools which are very attractive for younger generations, but still accessible to more mature ones. Overall, the website offers many web 2.0 tools (blogs, photo galleries, member profiles, videos, real-time news, etc) found on other social networking web sites. However, compared to existing social networks in Europe, MyPacis.eu has been designed to be easily localized in every European language, instead of focusing on one or two national markets.
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Praized Media Inc. Secures $1 Million in Seed Funding
2007-09-27 08:31:00
A Montreal-based internet start-up company Praized Media Inc announced today that the company has secured $1 million funding from Garage Technology Ventures Canada.The start-up operates in a stealth mode and at the moment it is unknown what company's exact product will be. However, it is known that Praized Media Inc. is working on a sofware that will connect blogs, social networks, and local search in ways never seen before.
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SISI System Converts the Language to Sign Language
2007-09-26 22:01:00
A group of students, cooperating with the IBM during the 12 weeks of camping (a program initiated by the University of East Angela, UK) were able to invent new software converting the spoken and written language into the sign language. The system called “SISI” ( Say it sign it ) will be a great help to the deaf and dumb people worldwide. The program is directed by the “Digital Person” translating the spoken or written words into the universal sign languageAccording to the IBM spokesman the new software will immediately solve the long-standing problem of lack of interpreters in various events.Apart from this, the new program will be used for the automatic translation of the TV and Radio programs, as well as for the translation of incoming telephone calls.The new technological achievement has got the approval from “The Royal Institute for the Deaf in Britain”. Gedo Gebelz, Director of the Institute for New techniques stated that: "our Institute welcomes any new technical d...
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What Does Britney Spears Face?
2007-09-25 10:01:00
What Is the Result of Reversing Following Combination of Letters YENTIRB SRAEPS?Will not make you lose time and say that it is Britney Spears .Want to know more about her?There are lots of web sites about her:Britney SpearsWorld of BritneyBritney.comBritneySpears.orgBritne y Spears - TMZ.comBritney Spears - IMDbBritney Spears - Yahoo! MusicBritney Spears Video Pictures - FOXNews.comwho is britney spearsBritney SpearsWell, if I list all the links existing in the world of internet, I should say that there is no time and patience. There are about 41,600,000 results spread over 100 pages. Just type Britney Spears.I am not a fan of her. But Even if you are not, it is impossible not to hear about her on TV, Radio, Newspaper, Internet. The latest news I came across about her is that she hit the parked car and was charged with misdemeanor hit and run causing property damage. She's also charged with driving without a valid license.Seems she had left neither note for the driver of the vehicle,...
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Belgium on Sale for 13.9 Million $
2007-09-24 22:35:00
The famous site of electronic sales, "EBAY" recently withdraw the declaration Belgium on sale from their list. The announcement was published on the 15th of September. Just in several days price of Belgium had increased from the initial price of 1 euro to 10 million euros ( 13.9 million $ ).The author of the advertisement, a former journalist Geritt Seks divided Belgium into three parts (Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia ) and put them on sale separately, since according to him, purchasing the whole country would be too expensive.The most amusing detail in this entire story is the fact that Seks warned the prospective owners about the 300 million national debt. In case of purchasing separate pieces of Belgium, each new owner would have to pay just 100 million euros each.As Seks has later commented, his sole aim was to attract attention, what he undoubtedly achieved, as he has become a favorite respondent of the reportersThe Spokeman of the EBAY say : this is not the first time Belgium...
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Has Apple Forgotten People With Disabilities?
2007-09-24 10:10:00
Well, it seems so. At least, Apple has forgotten that there people with ear disabilities out there. When iPhone is held up to a cochlear implant and or a hearing aid it gives out a loud buzzing interference.Due to this problem, a group representing people with a hearing loss filed complaints with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission last month. The group is accusing Apple Inc. of not making its iPhone compatible with hearing aids.This complaint may turn pretty expensive for Apple. Results may vary from paying refunds to customers with disabilities to redesigning the device altogether. However, according to documents posted on the FCC's Web site, Apple may not be required to make changes to the iPhone. "Handset manufacturers that offer two or fewer digital wireless handsets in the U.S. need not comply with the hearing aid compatibility compliance obligations," the FCC states.Photo source: BusinessWeek.comThis post has originally been posted on iPhone.Blogvasion.com
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PlayStation 3s Joint Power Delivers a Petaflop Performance
2007-09-23 10:01:00
Stanford University's Folding@Home program studies proteins to understand their goal in cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases. Of course, this kind of research requires enormous computing power. The University's network has been running 200,000 computers.PlayStation 3 owners are able to hook their consoles to the network and help the program accomplish its goals. Since March 15, 600,000 PlayStation 3s have been connected to the program delivering a petaflop performance to the university's network.The software to connect PlayStation 3 to the network is provided by Sony. The application is free and donates computing power from your PlayStation 3 to the network when your console is idle.PlayStation 3 is an extremely powerful machine, far more powerful than average home computers. PlayStation 3's multiple 3.2 GHz cell processors deliver nearly 1.8 teraflops of computing power.
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TOSHIBA-Cell Based ‘Streaming Processor’
2007-09-22 13:08:00
Toshiba, known as the world leader in high technology, produces advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household appliances.This time Toshiba offers Cell Base d ‘Stream Processor’. And what does it do? To judge generally, cell processors fill the gap between conventional desktop processors and specialized high-performance ones. The new product, processor is called the SpursEngine. On October 2, it is expected to be introduced. The objects, new cell processors will serve are: PCs, special concept notebooks. SpursEngine is mostly designed for processing video stream.“According to the company, the system will "instantaneously recognize and process changes in position, angle, and facial expression," rendering them as computer graphics.”There are four synergistic processin...
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The Only Way for Safe Remove
2007-09-22 02:40:00
You are deleting a lot of files from your computer every day, and some time later you again find yourself regretting about the deletion of some of those files? Well, not any more!The designers have invented a new dustbin connected with the desknote via an Wire-less connection or Bluetooth.The new recycle bin is equipped with a special CD connected to your computer. Every time you are deleting a file from your computer, a copy of this file is sent zipped to the dustbin. After being entirely full, the dustbin will send a signal of alert, requiring some files to be removed permanently. The project of the new dustbin is still placed on the designers' shelf, waiting some big company to purchase the design and to provide the new invention to the global market.
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Moore’s Law Coming to an End Within 15 Years
2007-09-21 10:12:00
Electronics, Volume 38, Number 8, April 19, 1965 that published Gordon “Moore’s Law” says that the number of transistors placed on an integrated circuit doubles every 18-24 months. Moore’s evaluation is as following: “…The object was to miniaturize electronics equipment to include increasingly complex electronic functions in limited space with minimum weight.”Today’s achievements show the results of all the theorized and later practically realized viewpoints of Gordon Moore, “Silicon Valley has kept up with his widely accepted maxim for more than 40 years, to the point where a new generation of chips, which Intel will begin to produce next year, will have transistors so tiny that four million of them could fit on the head of a pin.”According to the predictions of Gordon Moore by about 2020 his Law will come up against the laws of physics. "Another decade, a decade and a half, I think we'll hit something fairly fundamental,"declares Gordan Moore on the Intel’s ...
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Price Cut Boosts Xbox 360 Sales
2007-09-20 10:54:00
According to NPD Group's video game sales data for August, Wii and DS are still the top sellers. However, after price cut on Xbox 360, sales of Microsoft's game console have boosted by 63% and have surpassed PlayStation 2 sales.If we take into account that both PlayStation 3 and Wii sales have declined in August, Xbox 360 sales dynamics are pretty impressive. Moreover, the release of Halo 3 is expected to further increase Xbox 360 sales.
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Microsoft's Appeal Against an EU Antitrust Order is Dismissed
2007-09-18 12:06:00
Today European Union court dismissed Microsoft's appeal against an EU antitrust order that ordered it to share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player. The court upheld a $689 million fine as well.The software giant has two months to appeal the decision to the EU's highest court, the European Court of Justice. The company lawyer didn't say whether Microsoft will or won't appeal.Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/ 09/17/eu.microsoft.ap/index.html?iref=top news
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Scotland Lost a National Hero
2007-09-17 18:44:00
Scotland has lost a national hero and the motorsport world - a man with extraordinary spirit. Rally legend Colin McRae along with his five-year-old son died in a helicopter crash on Saturday.McRae became the first Briton to win the World Rally Championship in 1995. McRae was devoted to motor sport with his heart and his soul. He has taken part in Le Mans, Paris-Dakar and even piloted Martin Brundle's Formula 1 car.McRae is extremely popular in the world of computer games. The first Colin McRae Rally was released in 1998 by Codemasters followed by the second release in 2000. The second release was available both for PC and PlayStation. The latest game DiRT's PlayStation 3 edition was released on 14th of September, day before McRae's death. All of the games were inspired by the legendary driver.The world of motorsport will never be the same without McRae.
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