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It has a special role in the third world because it ensures that illiteracy is no longer a barrier to handling a computer. Read the Full Article
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Fishing for data
If looking for a needle in a haystack sounds difficult, try searching for a few flecks of gold dust in the gush of a fire hose, extracting them, then analyzing them for purity, all in a few seconds. Read the Full Article
Broadband heralds big changes
This has to be done hand in hand with modernising and changing the way pupils are taught and patients are treated, they argue. Read the Full Article
Texas Department of Information Resources Selects Wire One’s Glowpoint Network
AUSTIN, Texas & HILLSIDE, N.J., Nov 25, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Wire One Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WONE), a provider of video communications solutions, today announced that its award-winning Glowpoint(SM) network has been selected by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to carry videoconferencing traffic for VidNet ( www.dir.state.tx.us/tsd/datavideo.htm), a state-wide video communications system connecting […]
Macromedia Introduces Director MX
The newly streamlined Director MX workflow allows you to control Macromedia Flash MX objects and launch and edit Macromedia Flash MX files, making your development process easier and more efficient. Intuitive debugging and a new object inspector allow you to spend more time on content creation. And, Director MX provides integrated tools so you can […]
Americans wired for life
While doing her homework, she gets tips online from sparknotes.com, and chats with far-off friends and family via America Online’s Instant Messenger. Friel uses the Internet at her part-time job, and publishes an electronic newsletter for a student group for which she’s a state officer. Read the Full Article
Notes to Self: Microsoft Makes Note-Taking, Organizing a Snap
During his keynote tonight at COMDEX Fall 2002, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveiled Microsoft OneNote, a new application for the Microsoft Office family that combines the flexibility of hand-written notes with the power of personal computing. Read the Full Article
Microsoft Launches Smart Personal Object Technology Initiative
A range of new technologies including a low-distraction user interface, a new operating system platform, and new communications capabilities have been developed in the labs of Microsoft Research (MSR). PressPass asked Bill Mitchell, general manager of the Microsoft Personal Objects Group, to explain Smart Personal Objects and why this technology is significant. Read the Full […]
Mobile Computing: The Newest Wireless Technology
Given all the hype its recent U.S. introduction has received, 3G, a high-speed wireless data and voice network technology, seems reminiscent of 3D, the headache-inducing 1950s movie gimmick that had the masses peering at Godzilla through geeky glasses. Read the Full Article
Air Force preps architecture training
To remedy that situation and better equip the Air Force with properly trained enterprise architects, the service is preparing an architecture training strategy, said Col. William Nelson, deputy director of C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) architecture and assessment, in the office of the deputy chief of staff for warfighting integration at […]