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ProofRite: A Paper-Augmented Word Processor

whitepaper When users print a ProofRite document and annotate it with a digital pen, they may merge their changes with the digital source. While proofreading digital documents is a common pattern of use among word processor users, at present there are no word...

Tags: document management

[12 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Develops the Basic Technology for Authentication of Digital Research Notebooks

whitepaper The technology developed is an integration of digital pen technology which automatically creates an electronic record of handwritten notes and digital signature technology which authenticates the originality of an entry, enabling the...

Tags: digital signatures

[28 Feb 2008]

silicon.com Classics: 30 tips for better business travel

News These included everything from getting a big wallet and keeping your laptop in your hand luggage, to carrying spare USB sticks and - for when the laptop battery inevitably dies - good old pen and paper.

Tags: business travel, laptop, travel, list

[25 Feb 2008]

Race Team Improves Performance With Digital Note-Taking Program

whitepaper Until recently, the NASCAR team Target Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates used pen and paper to document critical race and performance issues, but that information was difficult to share. In the highly competitive world of auto racing, teams of...

Tags: desktop systems - pcs

[18 Feb 2008]

Photos: The high-tech future of retail

Photo This digital pen from O2 is designed to automate the transfer of data from paper stock forms to a central server, without any keyed-in data entry stage in the paper trail. The latest innovations in tech for retailers were showcased at the Retail...

Tags: retail, contactless payments, tablet, payment

[15 Feb 2008]

Language Modeling for Soft Keyboards

whitepaper This paper describes how language models, combined with models of pen placement, can be used to significantly reduce the error rate of soft keyboard usage, by allowing for cases in which a key press is outside of a key boundary.

Tags: software engineering, models, language, press

[19 Jul 2007]

Tablet PCs Help Boost Student Performance

whitepaper With Tablet PCs, users enjoy both a powerful notebook computer and - with a simple twist and click - a highly mobile tablet that can be written and drawn on with a digital pen. Kent School District, south of Seattle, Washington, faces the ever...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, students, pcs, school

[19 Dec 2006]

Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs

Photos: Inside BT's R&D labs

Photo The objects on the screen are virtual representations but a user can run the pen attached to the machine over the images and 'feel' the surface. BT is also looking at how consumers can use broadband without having to sit at a PC - for example this...

Tags: rfid

[21 Nov 2006]

Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style

Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style

Photo To the uninitiated, the Bluetooth digital pen may have a whiff of technology for technology's sake about it. Social workers in Greenwich, meanwhile, have been trialling a digital pen and paper system since April

Tags: bluetooth, blackberry, nokia, gadgets

[20 Nov 2006]

Tablet PC Pen and Ink

whitepaper The Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system makes collecting, manipulating, and recognizing digital ink simple. This paper examines the Tablet PC ink collection objects and describes how to implement highlighting, erasing and...

Tags: edition, windows xp, pc, xp

[16 Nov 2006]

Digital Ink Signatures - Concepts and Technologies

whitepaper One of the oldest methods of authentication is pen-based signatures - from the feather quill pen of old to the digital stylus of today, people have been using written signatures to indicate their intentions or approval for thousands of years.

Tags: digital signatures, authentication, forms, pc

[14 Nov 2006]

Mobile tech making friends on councils

News Popular choices are digital pen and paper, finding favour with nearly one-third of councils, and smart phones. Councils in the UK are using more emerging and mobile technology to improve their service to citizens, a survey has revealed.

Tags: local councils, councils, council, mobile

[29 Sep 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: SMEs rule the world

Comment In some regions up to 80 per cent get by using paper and pen alone! Most seem to have risen to the challenge of the digital fax and mobile phone and many have email but as for a convincing website, many appear to be sadly lacking.

Tags: entrepreneurs, start-ups, sme

[10 Jul 2006]

Tablet PCs 'Next Logical Step' in Pickering Education

whitepaper With HP Tablet PCs, users enjoy a combination of a powerful notebook computer and - with a simple twist and click - a lightweight, highly mobile tablet that can be written and drawn on with a digital pen.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, pcs, students, college

[05 Jul 2006]

Photos: Microsoft in China - a snapshot of R&D activities

Photo And that's how he came to invent his digital pen - something he has become famous for at the research centre. Believe it or not, this pen has a mini computer inside it. Wang's aim is to make the pen record what people write so that information is...

Tags: china

[23 Jun 2006]

White Paper: Nokia Digital Pen

whitepaper The Digital Pen is not a new concept. All digital pens share the same general functionality, the one of registering the strokes when the pen moves over the paper, and transferring the stroke information to the application.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, captured, enterprise systems, pen

[23 Jun 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 24.02.06

Round-Up Either way, it sounds like it doesn't make much difference because according to Campbell: "Tony Blair is definitely a paper and pen person. The Round-Up thought long and hard about what 'paper and pen' could be rhyming slang for but it seems it may...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[24 Feb 2006]

Camera Phones With Pen Input as Annotation Devices

whitepaper This paper explores the use of camera phones with pen input as a platform for generating digital annotations to real world objects. This paper outlines ways to create and interact with digital annotations using the camera and pen-based input.

Tags: input, technique, camera, pen

[16 Feb 2006]

Managing Forests With GIS, GPS and Digital Imagery

whitepaper Handheld pen-based computers, such as the Palm, and compatible field-based GIS software can be easily customized for field forestry tasks. Forest management activities have an inherent and important locational component which requires spatial tools.

Tags: field, gis, chain, professionals

[14 Feb 2006]

AirTransNote: Augmented Classrooms With Digital Pen Devices and RFID Tags

whitepaper AirTransNote uses digital pens to free students from the need to use PCs for note taking. AirTransNote augments activities in classrooms by sharing student notes written on regular paper using wireless communications.

Tags: students, notes, controller, classrooms

[09 Feb 2006]

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