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RSS point argumentsAnnotation-Based Finite State Processing in a Large-Scale NLP Architecture
White Paper There are well-articulated arguments promoting the deployment of finite-state (FS) processing techniques for natural language processing (NLP) application development. This paper adopts a point of view of designing industrial strength NLP... [12 Apr 2005]
Sources of Economic Growth: an Extensive Growth Accounting Exercise
White Paper Recent theoretical as well as empirical arguments point to the level of TFP as the more relevant variable to explain. A growth accounting excercise is conducted for 88 countries for 1960-94 to examine the source of cross-country differences in... [24 Feb 2004]
Where RFID Meets the Much Misunderstood Moore - Part 3 of 3
White Paper In the first two papers of this series, the authors' considered arguments by those who claim tag prices would fall below ten cents, and arguments by those who reject the idea. The authors' showed how both could supposedly use Moore's Law and... [09 Nov 2006]
Rural Britain demands equal rights... and broadband
News On Monday we brought you the arguments against one price broadband for all - today it's time for the rural have-nots to have their say.silicon.com reader Roy Baldwin believes "there is only one sensible point of view on broadband". [20 Aug 2003]
Microsoft trial judge throws out call for dismissal
News Kollar-Kotelly agreed it was a valid point but said the case was unique and that the legal arguments raised by the states had standing. Aural arguments will be heard on 19 June. A US Judge has thrown out Microsoft's call to dismiss claims brought... [13 Jun 2002]
Industry comes to terms with Vodafone-Mannesmann merger
Comment Just before news of the deal broke, one telecoms lawyer said Mannesmann had already lost the financial, technical and commercial arguments, making a deal inevitable. Although Vodafone insisted the merger made sense from a strategic point of view... [07 Feb 2000]
BT fights back over e-slowdown allegations
News Martin Hart, chairman of the TMA was also dismissive of Vallance's arguments. Vallance's first defensive point was regarding the rollout of DSL. His second key point concerned the cost of dial-up access to the Internet. [30 Nov 1999]
Australian internet ruling sends shockwaves around world
News It's not binding on any other country but other jurisdictions might consider it to be of persuasive value, or might adopt similar arguments," Brendan Scott, a lawyer with Gilbert and Tobin, said. The High Court of Australia has, in a decision with... [10 Dec 2002]
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment Addressing all the arguments is pointless, grounded as they are for the most part in subjectivity. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged superiority of PCs. Partly because it seems to be a shortcut to a proper... [17 Apr 2008]
Microsoft to court - we could get used to this
Comment This process may be aided by the fact that it's easier to understand arguments of this sort than the nitty gritty of the technology. At one point, he compared Microsoft to drugs gangs. Yes it would - but that's not the point. [28 Feb 2001]
Ethernet promises cheaper broadband
News He is prepared for arguments that ATM is the best way to provide the quality of service that permium services will require. Operators are getting closer to a decision point," said Peter Linder, technical director of broadband access at Ericsson. [27 Nov 2002]
Government change of heart over RIP - a pat on the back
Comment We are pleased that advice, concerns and arguments from various quarters made it through to him and his staff. And the next time you're talking to someone about these issues, and someone says 'What's the point? [19 Jun 2002]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment Hardware projects - OLPC and Intel's Classmate - are liable to get tangled in arguments about the location of manufacturing plants. So there is certainly a question about whether it is sound policy for developing countries to accept the IPR... [17 Jul 2007]
Strategic Vision: Giga Information Group on the economics of ecommerce
Comment While the five-to-one ratio feels like common sense (after all, businesses are so much 'bigger' than individual consumers) and there is no question that a shift from B2C spending to B2B spending would forward the interests of the established IT... [29 Sep 1999]
Opinion: Microsoft vs Linux - the Empire strikes back?
Comment Strategically, Microsoft, after years of attempting to ignore the threat from the open source community, is now looking for the arguments that reinforce both its own paradigm model and customer loyalties that exist in the enterprise market. [23 Nov 2005]
