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RIM reveals BlacBerry roadmap

News Giving a keynote speech at WES - which included a demonstration of SAP's CRM software running on the latest BlackBerry device - Mike de la Cruz, senior VP of mobility and analytics at SAP, said enterprise mobility and enterprise software are...

Tags: rim, touchscreen, blackberry

[14 May 2008]

Microsoft to broaden web-based business tools

News Microsoft plans to unveil the news today during a speech by chairman Bill Gates at a conference for SharePoint, one of its fastest-growing applications, which allows workers to share documents and plan projects on secure websites.

Tags: microsoft, apps, email, business

[03 Mar 2008]

Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008

Photo A display in the lobby of San Francisco's Moscone Center hints at a key announcement in Apple CEO Steve Jobs' Macworld speech - the new ultra-thin MacBook Air laptop. The free software upgrade and the new model will ship in two weeks.

Tags: apple, macbook, macworld, jobs

[16 Jan 2008]

Apple unveils 'world's thinnest notebook'

News During the keynote speech, Jobs touted Apple's environmentally-friendly efforts, claiming its MacBook Air contains mercury- and arsenic-free glass, BFR and PVC-free boards and 50 per cent smaller packaging than previous MacBooks.

Tags: apple, macbook, steve jobs, air

[16 Jan 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Chinese whispers

Comment Censorship is an emotive subject and we are strongly committed to our notion of free speech. So, Martin Brampton asks, what's really fuelling the wave of criticism against the current workshop of the world?

Tags: offshoring, hacking, hardware, china

[25 Oct 2007]

Allowing Errors in Speech Over Wireless LANs

whitepaper By forcing error-free reception of speech, scarce bandwidth and energy are unnecessarily expended, and the delay of the packets increases. Wireless LANs are becoming commonplace because of their ease in providing mobile communication.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, errors, ieee, voice

[03 Sep 2007]

Allowing Errors in Speech Over Wireless LANs

whitepaper By forcing error-free reception of speech, scarce bandwidth and energy are unnecessarily expended, and the delay of the packets increases. Wireless LANs are becoming commonplace because of their ease in providing mobile communication.

Tags: errors, voice, ieee, packets

[13 Aug 2007]

Microsoft ponders its Office options

News Microsoft won't say for sure whether that's where it's heading, though CEO Steve Ballmer did note in his keynote speech earlier this week that Microsoft will soon rebrand its existing small business Office Live tools as it plans to add services...

Tags: office, microsoft

[12 Jul 2007]

Apple's Safari coming to Windows PCs

News A beta version of Safari for Windows is available now, CEO Steve Jobs announced during his keynote speech at the company's 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The software became available yesterday on Apple's website for Windows users as...

Tags: jobs, steve jobs, mac, iphone

[12 Jun 2007]

'Patents slow innovation' - Red Hat CEO

News In an interview after the speech, Szulik said software patents "absolutely" retard the pace of innovation. Szulik took pains in his speech to argue open source programmers aren't running roughshod over others' patents.

Tags: szulik, red hat, patents

[23 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?

Comment My first (personal) experience of a NGN came with the arrival of the transistor which immediately reduced equipment sizes and power consumption, and increased the number of speech circuits per pair. Written on the Ipswich to London train and...

Tags: ngn

[02 May 2007]

YouTube vs Viacom: 'It's about free speech' - Google

News Michael Kwun, managing counsel for litigation at Google, said in a briefing with reporters at Google's California headquarters: "We think YouTube offers the world's leading platform for entertainment, education and free speech.

Tags: copyright, youtube, google, viacom

[01 May 2007]

Add Speech Capability to Your Applications and Games for Mobile Devices!-Level 200

whitepaper This webcast takes you on a text-based adventure as you explore the key issues, options and techniques used when adding speech capability to an application or game. Topics include the Microsoft Speech Application SDK 1.0 (SASDK), the Microsoft...

Tags: voice - data integration, speech, ce, windows ce

[16 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check

Comment In my view bandwidth and good quality speech and video are an absolute necessity that will transform more than the ICT industry. A further factor in the telecoms industry is the belief that bandwidth costs money, is in some way precious and should...

Tags: telecoms industry, bandwidth, voip security, voip

[26 Mar 2007]

Tories broadside Blair over open source

News In response to Osborne's speech, a Microsoft spokesperson said: "The shadow chancellor raises an important issue and we look forward to engaging with him. Functionality, performance, security, value and the cost of ownership of software should be...

Tags: tories, conservatives, open source

[08 Mar 2007]

Amnesty: ISPs must safeguard free speech

News The human rights group Amnesty International has called on ISPs to do more to protect free speech online. So far, more than 60,000 people have signed the site's pledge to protect freedom of speech on the net.

Tags: free speech, amnesty, amnesty international, isps

[20 Feb 2007]

Regulation could choke the net - Google chief

News For instance, aside from privacy and security concerns, "we have to define where free speech begins and ends", he said. In a meandering, conversational speech which lasted about 30 minutes, Schmidt mused about challenges global leaders will...

Tags: eric schmidt, regulation, google

[07 Feb 2007]

Google speaks to the book world

News In a speech describing his experience as a profitable author who has always distributed his books for free online under a Creative Commons licence, in addition to selling them in bookstores and online marketplaces, Doctorow said: "No matter how...

Tags: book publishing, publishing, books, e-books

[19 Jan 2007]

Dell kicks off trees-for-PCs scheme

News Company chairman Michael Dell used a keynote speech to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday to launch the "Plant a Tree for Me" programme, at the same time as introducing a number of new gaming systems and components.

Tags: trees, environment, dell

[10 Jan 2007]

Photos: Top 10 pieces of Linux kit

Photo Free as in speech or free as in beer? While 'free' may be the ethos behind Linux some hardware and software makers have already been turning to Linux to take money from punters - by powering cash machines.

Tags: ipod, watch, robot, linux

[22 Nov 2006]

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