Personal technology
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo In the future drivers will regard their sat-navs as their friends, if robotics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are to be believed. The robot will use facial recognition technology to... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo AT&T is working with Texas Tech University to advance how technology can aid medical treatment. The personal navigation device doesn't come with an AT&T contract but uses the carrier's services to bring... [09 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet While analyst house ABI Research notes that AR technology has been with us for more than 15 years, the company is predicting dramatic growth in the take-up of the tech over the next five years - driven by mobile... [27 Oct 2009]
Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
White Paper Read this Technology Evaluation Centers paper for information on how to use Information Technology to drive better information quality and better decision-making. This information can come from a variety... [12 Oct 2009]
At the Forefront of Multi-Channel Banking
White Paper The Woolwich is the first U.K.financial institution to provide interactive mobile banking services via WAP technology and the only bank with true channel integration across branches, telephone, Internet, WAP and... [09 Oct 2009]
Photos: Amazon's Kindle comes to the UK
Photo The UK version of the e-reader will operate using 3G mobile technology, allowing users to shop for titles in the Kindle Store and download them directly to the device. Users can download books, magazines, newspapers and... [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment It was unusual in those days to do it [set up a technology company], where as today it's completely usual. Acorn suffered some setbacks in its early days, such as not producing enough Electron computers to satisfy demand... [07 Oct 2009]
Security in the Call Center: Verifying Customer Identities Without the Inconvenience
White Paper Organizations have moved rapidly to secure their online channel and implement technology to assure the identities of users accessing services and account information over the Internet. While the Internet offers many... [05 Oct 2009]
Securing Sensitive Data With Tokenization: An Emerging Technology
White Paper Tokenization is an emerging technology for protecting sensitive information, based on the well-established technique of substitution. It can be applied across a broad range of industries and applications for protecting... [05 Oct 2009]
The Manycore Shift: Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative Ushers Computing Into the Next Era
White Paper The recent advances in microelectronic technology and the advent of multi-core and manycore processors are a signal that another large industry change is on the horizon. Each previous shift has made computing more... [02 Oct 2009]
New Dell.com Boosts the Customer Experience While Reducing IT Effort
White Paper It chose a solution based on Microsoft products and technologies, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, FAST enterprise search technology, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. With this new solution, Dell can... [02 Oct 2009]
Putting the Pieces Together: Offering Customers an Integrated Insurance Experience
White Paper This paper explores the challenges faced by insurance companies and other financial institutions, and looks at the ways IP technology answers those challenges - today, and for the future. Just as important are privacy... [02 Oct 2009]
Good Architecture and Security White Paper
White Paper Once a luxury for top executives, mobile technology is fast becoming a necessity for field forces to remain competitive. In order to stay competitive they also need mobile access to email, personal... [02 Oct 2009]
Stephen Fry
AS Profile Fry's status as the popular face of technology enthusiasts was cemented in 2007 with the launch of his column in The Guardian newspaper about gadgets, named Dork Talk, and his personal blog, the first... [30 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile Yet another dubbed it "a truly disruptive technology", adding it "could impact and change many areas of business, society, politics, economics etc". One noted how Twitter is setting the news agenda - "essentially a... [29 Sep 2009]
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